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This Week’s Story: A Midnight Clear

1993: It was just Caryl and I that first year, huddled around a tree in our 350 square foot tin shack we called home. Without the wood stove that often glowed red on a frigid and brittle winter night the little plumbing we had would freeze (it often did anyway)…..

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Ranch News

Dust. On the summer ranges, we get used to it. We live in a world of volcanic ash. It defines our soils in terms of structure, and it gives us an unfair advantage in fertility. But we do have to eat and breathe quite a bit of it. This past summer was the driest on record. And that means that the dust was greater than normal. At least it made for good pictures. Photo by Melanie.

Linnaea on Toby. With no shower on the range in cow camp, sponge baths are the only option. Most of the crew just lives with it. It’s on their food. On their bedroll. In their boots. The grit and grime is just something you put up with. But we know that because of the dust and the mineralized richness of volcanic ash we have grasses that are some of the most nutrient dense on earth. Photo by Melanie.

Glenn on Ruby. We’re bringing them into the night pen. We pen all of our cattle every night to keep them safe from wolves. On the edge of the night pen, it can get pretty dusty from repeated ingress and egress. It’s why we move our night pens often; the disturbance of the soil surface turns out to be good for new grass seed establishment, but repeated use in the same areas year after year never gives grass a chance. So we try to get 3 or 4 years rest on a night penning area before we use it again. We’re always surprised at the vegetation response! Photo by Melanie.

Maddy grabbed this shot a couple of weeks ago while trailing the beef herd to our lease ranch. It’s a county highway, but in Idaho, cattle have the right of way, and it is very common to see people moving their cowherds to new pasture in just this way. I hope it will always be like that. Photo by Maddy.

Maddy grabbed this calf out of the brush after the herd moved on. She put him on her gelding, Flint, who was used to those sorts of things. Maddy has carried all manner of things on Flint’s back with no issues. Dogs often get to ride. Photo by Annie.

Caryl snapped this shot of Maddy and one of the many border/Aussie pups she has been raising. This one, Peanut, was adopted by her sister and brother-in-law, and is looking to be a great stock dog companion. Photo by Caryl.

I like this shot Annie took. It seems to me to be a western version Currier and Ives. Cattle trailing down the road to new grass, and woodsmoke drifting up from our neighbor Carol’s chimney. Photo by Annie.

Flashback to this summer at the Bear Basin Cow camp. Annie grabbed this shot on a June evening as the sun dropped below the horizon. The cows are in the night pen, and the crew has started dinner. It’s fairly late; likely around 10:30 at night. Photo by Annie.

Snowstorms drift through the ranch all the time in late fall and early winter. This is the start of a storm that delivered white by morning. Photo by Annie.

Christmas caroling is an annual tradition in the valley, so much so that several neighbors gather together in the larger houses and await the arrival of the singers and musicians. Photo by Glenn.

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