freeze

 I worked several weeks in the summer of 2019 to get the supply lines from the pasture underground water system to the watering tanks sufficiently covered with gravel and soil that we could maintain a grazing rotation well after Thanksgiving.  So far it has not panned out, since we have had for the last two seasons a serious and lengthy cold snap in most of November.  Last year I broke through six inches of surface ice in one cattle tank before I gave it up for the year.  This year, because of the dry conditions, the grass gave out before the water froze.

We will see what next year brings.  For now, we do winter cattle feeding along with the other getting ready for winter things, like getting bedding bales home, getting the livestock buildings in winter order, putting away tools and so forth.  The farmer proposes, God(in the form of weather) disposes.  So it goes.

Jim