Boy Howdy it’s cold outside!  A nice fire like this one sure would be a welcome thing to have right now!  But, you think it’s cold right now, right here!  A look at the weather in Randolph right now would have you singing a different tune!  If you look at your outside thermometer right now it will read about 11 degrees!  Hell fire!  That’s cold, but look at the neighbors thermometer on the side of the barn in Randolph right now and it reads Minus 2!  And don’t expect much more heat to come from the sun today either as the expected high is only 11 degrees up there!  That’s the same temperature it is outside your home right now!  A high of 11 degrees is expected in Randolph!  Put on the long johns and button up the overcoat Martha!  Your nostrils are going to stick together when you breath as you do the chores!

And so, Weasel and I are going to be braving that cold tonight and tomorrow as we head off for our cow elk hunt in the morning.

It was a good call on the part of the game management of Deseret to not have their hunt as scheduled yesterday and they moved it to tomorrow.  So, we have our reservations to stay in Evanston tonight and be ready to hit the ranch at first light in the morning.

My hope is they have the elk tied up in the pasture next to the barn and we can use the upper loft to lay on the hay and shoot out the window to bag our animals.  Then the guide can use the backhoe to lift the animal up, gut it and take it to our trailer and lay it down for the trip home.  That’s the way to git ‘er dun!

But, we won’t know just what will happen until the morning light hits up tomorrow.  Until then, everyone have a great day and I’ll be back on here come Friday!

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WOAAAH!!!!

I just talked to one of the game managers for Deseret and he has informed me that we will not be entering the ranch from the Randolph side, but rather from their Lost Creek  entry gate!

This news changes a lot!  First off we will lose the money paid for our reservation in Evanston…gone is a solid $50, right now, here in a minute.  And then we will have to set our clocks for a 3:30 rise in the morning…that was something we were trying to avoid by getting our room in Evanston.  But, we won’t have to pack clothes etc.

Gotta just go with the flow and hope that tomorrow we find two fat cows to bring home with us.

Bears Butt

December 4, 2013