Yep - super smoky here this morning. We're just keeping our fingers crossed that our cattle can stay on pasture until end of Sept.
Tourist season - don't get me started! That was what we refer to in our house as the year of the "batan death march" - it was my husb, son, myself and we could only round up about 5 other people to help - moving about 350 cows, their calves, a bunch of yearling heifers 23 miles - about half of it on a dirt logging road - not too bad, but the other half on a 2 lane highway with not near enough barrow ditch for that many animals - so we got the mhp and sherrif to help pretty much block traffic and keep it to one lane and us to the other lane and the ditch - that many cows that are already tired from the first day - don't exactly hurry! It took about 8 hours to get them 13 miles! they were sore footed, hungry, tired, hot and MEAN by the time we got them to the corrals and into the trucks to go home. then we had to really scramble to try to buy hay to feed them. We usually bring them home end of Sept and they can go out onto the hayfields by mid October after the calves ship, and we don't usually have to feed anything until January 1st - so we didn't have that much of a stockpile of hay to feed that many from July until the fields freeze up. We were fortunate though to be able to rent a fairly decent pasture from a guy that held about 1/2 of them for a pretty long time.
Where are you Herf?