Weather: Winds return with force but now from the SW.
Where: BW-2-3-9 for cows and LS-4 for calves. SW winds and blowing snow bring slowly warming temps yet, as is mostly the pattern, the change brings difficulty to getting around, while the bitter winds force cattle to drift to find protection. Calves got fed before drifting got too bad. Cows received straw but mostly moved around grazing and trying to avoid the wind. Wind keeps cows located in BW-2 yet in ate afternoon cows reverse back into BW-9. Some headed toward trees on west end of Big Wall. By nightfall I had them located on the bottoms away from the trees. To add to our challenging day, the guest house furnace quit over the night with temperature falling to -20, water pipes froze in the house. Thanks to Ken, our most reliable and adaptive “furnace guy” the furnace was back in operation by the afternoon-yet some pipe breaks will need attending. When I think our difficulties are tough, I just say to myself Turkey, Syria, Ukraine, and the list of countries just grows. I copied this quote worth remembering: Over the last year,” Blinken said, “Russia has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian men, women, and children; uprooted more than 13 million people from their homes; destroyed more than half of the country’s energy grid; bombed more than 700 hospitals, 2,600 schools; and abducted at least 6,000 Ukrainian children—some as young as four months old—and relocated them to Russia. And in Turkey, whole towns are simply gone. What is the appropriate response?
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