Retirement Is Over! Again!

[VA Rifleman]

My grass is brown as well. Big storm says the weather guessers. Put a round bale under the branches of a big cedar.

Cows at feeder. Snow just starting.

[Dee]

Dee... I understand it's off season winter now, but does that forage really green up in Spring?
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TM, this is high plains a west Texas. We'll get spring rains, some years better than others. The "greenup" is a "semi-arid" climate and doesn't last long.
The grasses on this place are natural prairie grasses. They grow slower, but cure on the stem like cut hay.
It ain't pretty like the Southern wetter areas, but the grass is good for growing cattle.

[oldandslow]

Dee, out of curiosity what is the elevation and average rainfall in your area? I haven't been up that way in years. I used to have relatives in Amarillo but most all are deceased now so no reason to travel there. I grew up down on the southern end of the plains at 2900' and when I left the average rainfall was 18.5" a year. Now days I bet it has dwindled to considerably less. About straight across to the western edge where I live now the elevation at my home is slightly less than 4000' and the annual rainfall was 12.5" when I moved here. This is short grass country and a bunch of it is mostly weeds now due to drouth, range fires, and overgrazing in the past.

[Dee]

Dee, out of curiosity what is the elevation and average rainfall in your area? I haven't been up that way in years. I used to have relatives in Amarillo but most all are deceased now so no reason to travel there. I grew up down on the southern end of the plains at 2900' and when I left the average rainfall was 18.5" a year. Now days I bet it has dwindled to considerably less. About straight across to the western edge where I live now the elevation at my home is slightly less than 4000' and the annual rainfall was 12.5" when I moved here. This is short grass country and a bunch of it is mostly weeds now due to drouth, range fires, and overgrazing in the past.

3200 feet elevation, and about 22" rain fall.

[Dee]

These walked up on me while I was feedin yesterday mornin.
Mule deer don't spook too bad.

[Mule 11]

They sure don’t spook like white tail.

[oldandslow]

Wooo, cool shades.