The Hogsty

Morning. 48 degrees and a promise of rain, which I will believe when I see it.

We've had goats, the domestic kind. I'm not a big fan.

Morning, and a happy March to everyone. 54 degrees, air is moving gently, partly cloudy.

Mike, I am not even going to think about how your pygmy goat managed that particular feat.

I am, however, going to use the rattlesnake/goat analogy at some point. The antelope in question were two does. They ...

Morning. 42 degrees, wind about 20 mph, looks like it might be sunny out there. Sure doesn't seem much like the last day of February.

Are you talking about goat goats or speed goats? We once watched a couple of the former stomp the daylights out of a rattler.

Just noticed we're moving in on a two ...

Morning, gentlemen. 44 degrees. Wind is blowing, sun is shining, supposed to reach 44 later today. Yesterday was my husband's 77th birthday. I got him the Complete Calvin and Hobbs Collection. It arrived just as we were leaving the house to go out to my son's place for dinner. Perfect timing ...

Morning. 43 degrees, sunny, and the air is moving right along. Had a pretty good little spate of hail yesterday, followed by a few drops of rain, but nothing very useful.

Morning. 51 degrees, 45 mph wind.

Poor fellow, forced to stir the sauce himself. I hope he recovered from the trauma.

Morning. Currently 46 degrees. The air is quite enthusiastic and supposed to get more so later today.

I finally got my license renewed yesterday. Called to cancel todays appointment, but "press 5 for all other questions" only resulted in the automated voice repeating the menu. Phhtt.

Morning. 43 degrees and a bit gloomy. Wind is supposed to pick up later.

Back to the DMV today for the third damn time to get my drivers license.

Las Vegas is not on my list of vacation choices. Crowds and noise freak me out. I've stopped there for gas and that's all the exploring I ever did. My ...

Is this where the discussion of the Cokeville basement house came up? Just in case, here's an article from Cowboy State Daily:

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/02/21/if-you-want-to-live-in-a-fallout-shelter-this-cokeville-basement-home-is-it/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx ...

Morning. 22 degrees and sunny. Suppose to 44 degrees later. Good-bye, snow.

May you and your lady enjoy yourselves enormously, Mike.

Morning. 10 degrees, still, and sunny.

Whenever I went to Colorado, I unloaded my gun and put it in the trunk. Usally dropped the ammo in the console by the driver's seat. On one trip, I went with my daughter to the courthouse in Boulder, which is kinda like California on steroids. She was still a ...

Morning, gentlemen. It was -6 when my husband got up around 6:30. I slept until the temperature was a more reasonable 0 degrees.

I was the only person at the SS office- in and out in about fifteen minutes including the time it took me to go back and lock my handgun in the glove compartment of the ...

Morning. 0 degrees, about four inches of snow on the ground. I wouldn't leave the house if I could help it, but I have an appointment at 11.
I'm not in such a howlingly hostile mood as yesterday, but the day is young.

Is it a small satellite office of a full blown building of government ...

Must be nice. I have to go down to the SS office with my birth certificate and marriage license to alleviate the situation. I hope it alleviates the situation.

This state is so red it drips blood and the little idiot who is our secretary of state is doing his best to exert absolute control over ...

Morning. 35 degrees, overcast, and just enough breeze to make it feel colder.

I have an appointment at 8 to try and straighten out the problem. I hope this doesn't turn into a goat rope.

Morning. Long, stupid, idiotic morning at the DMV. Couldn't renew my license because of a spelling discrepancy between my name on the driver's license and the name on my social security card. Have to go back tomorrow and talk to a supervisor. This has not mattered in fifty-four years. I do not know ...

Morning. 44, sunny, enough wind to blow one's hair around and ensure looking messy upon arrival anywhere. Today is off to the tax accountant day to find out the damages of working hard yet not being a billionaire.

Morning. Windy, overcast, 48 degrees. This afternoon I have to get my business account ready for the tax accountant with whom we have an appointment tomorrow. It's mostly in order, but not quite. Sigh. "Not quite" tends to turn into a couple of hours before I realize it.

Happy Valentine's Day. 44 degrees, sunny, 25 mph wind. Our mountain is south of town. Makes giving directions easy for those of us who are right-left challenged.

Morning. Kinda overcast, 39 degrees.

One cloudy too-early morning, I got turned around at Salida and went north instead of west. I don't like to retrace routes, so I turned off on State 24 which roughly parallels I-25. I intended to drop back down to I-25 via the next farm road, but ended up taking ...

Morning. Sunny and 40 degrees with respectable wind movement.

Upon legalizing marijuana, Colorado's population exploded. I-25 traffic was always challenging, but now: uff da. 287 was doable until the truckers figured out it was a good way to avoid sitting in bumper to bumper traffic on the freeway ...

Cloudy, 28 degrees, no wind, but 40 mph gusts expected later.

We made our will a couple of years ago. Before that, I had a holograph will, which is legal in Wyoming, but a real live estate attorney is better. In our case, we used the attorney I'd worked down the hall from for eleven years. He's ...

I wish I could pick it up in my backyard, but I doubt that's gonna happen.

It was a grand adventure to ride with that many people, even in Dinero's puttering along group. To the end of the universe, my friend.

Morning. 27 degrees, overcast, and some weak sunshine leaking through the haze. It tried to snow last night, but got discouraaged. Only managed to ice over my windshield.

We trailered our bikes to T's place in Big Spring the year we went, mainly because we were concerned with hitting a spring blizzard on the way home. We rode over to see my aunt in Waco, stopped in Kileen to ride with some folks, then went down to Cloud Riders. Turned out that we got colder riding ...

TXHawg wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 3:54 pm I tell myself I'll never give it up, but I know otherwise....

Live like the ride ain't ever gonna end.

Everything is set up and costs us about $60 a month. No contract. No mini dish, which would be cool. We live on a ridge with few trees (most of the ones in the area are in my yard) and they found a line of sight to the main tower.

Afternoon. Cloudy, 52 degrees, and the wind isn't doing much right now: maybe 15 or 20 mph. It's supposed to pick up considerably later on with gusts up to 55 mph. The internet guys are out trying to figure out where to put the radio receiver. We need a clear line of sght to the tower and there's ...

I saw that, too. Maybe Tom mentioned it? T's about the age I was when I had to give up riding. The spirit is still willing, but the joints are weak.

Morning. 51 degrees and if the air is moving around, it's not doing much. Return to winter predicted here, to, and my joints agree.

Eh, too bad about the batteries. Some consistency in such things would be welcome.

I'm envious. I miss my bike, though I know it was time to hang up my hemet. I still like crosscountry drives, but somehow, a Camry is not quite the same experience as my Virago. For one thing, I don't have to stop every hundred miles for gas.

Morning. 48 degrees, a more reasonable amount of air moving than last night, sunshine. Yesterday we drove over to Glenrock to try out the newish diner and discovered it was closed. Too bad. Drove back to Casper and ate at Olive Garden instead. We don't eat out very often because it has gotten so ...

Morning. 22 degrees, still, sunny. Dog on the ottoman next to my legs, coffee dripping into the pot, no obligations today except to write.

Morning. 50 degrees, sunny, 20 mph wind. Very nice spring day.

My favorite hairdresser closed shop when covid began. Since then, I cut my own bangs and occasionally whack an inch or two off the rest of it. Sometimes it looks pretty okay and other times, I just think, "Well, it'll grow." It is only ...

Morning. Sunny, relatively still, 26 degrees. Got some popcorn snow yesterday, but not enough to do any good.

Resistence is futile. Come to the Dark Bike Side.

Morning. Overcast, 36 degrees, and if the air is moving, I can't see it.

Tonya is selling her bike? Sigh. That in its way makes me even sadder than when I sold mine. Anyone know is Dinero is still hanging in there? I haven't heard from him in a very long time.

I guess it's too late to search the nursing homes for very old drunks....

I missed this, but it was worth waiting for.

Morning, though just barely. 47 freaking degrees on Groundhog Day and no moisture in sight. My son was here earlier; he says he's going to be screwed out on the ranch if this keeps up because there won't be anything for his eqines to eat this summer. Most of the state is in great shape for moisture ...

Morning. Wind moving but not bugging anyone. Overcast. 47 degrees with a predicted high of 54. Fifty. Four. On the first day of February. Much more of this, and we're going to start getting an influx of snowbirds every winter.

Read over Draft II Part A yesterday. With a little bit of effort, I ...

Morning. It's a sunny 44 degrees and about 15 mph wind.

The campground at the first tunnel is where I've seen big horn sheep, but no mountain goats yet. I was waiting to pick p my grandson one time when three sheep came wandering down to the river. One sheep posed on the mountain side like every ...

Morning, but just barely. 41 degrees and so far, the wind is behaving.

The love of my life heads off by 9:30 or 10 and is up around 6 or 6:30. I'm not sure what time it was when I got to bed this morning, but I didn't wake up until 9:45. I haven't slept that late in years. Apparently the old gal ...

Morning. 34 degrees. Mostly overcast but the sun is peaking through here and there. Air moveing but not excessively.

We have a couple of different kinds of wild plums and a couple of apple trees in the yard. Roy enjoys the plums,.They're about the size of cherries and mostly skin and pit, so they ...

Morning. Forty degrees and a bit of wind stirring the branches. Overcast.

Two of the only things I miss about central California and south Texas is fresh fruit and the smell of orange blossoms. As we moved around with my dad's job, we lived in lived in an orange grove, a walnut grove, and a fig ...

Afternoon, just short of evening. Long day of talking to people. 42 degrees. Air is moving.

A happy occasion: finding a favorite knife.

Your neighbor told you to drain and flush the sediment DAILY? Maybe a second opinion would be germane.

Morning, though just barely. 31 degrees, sunny, 25 mph wind.

We get the fire in the pipes effect. It's pretty neat.

Morning. Six degrees, light snow, no air movement to speak of. We have a fireplace downstairs that we ever use and a stove insert in the upstairs fireplace which has been in use the last several days. The stove was a bit of an investment, but we've enjoyed it and have probably broken even on it by ...

Morning. Negative 6, crisp and sunny, the W Word is behaving itself. Roy said it was -9 when he got up.

Thanks, Mike. I need another session in the library, but I'm awfully happy sitting next to the fire this morning.

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