Lindy Widner

@KathyFortune9 Pretty girls

Just wishing there was more grass here 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@samfeedscattle 🤤 The camera skills! 🤩

Don’t knock it until you try it, a little lime juice and some salt while is hot 🥵

@edge_grindr He is a great friend 💜. And I've been blessed with amazing kids.

@WidnerLindy Great animals, children make lifelong memories. Old Hank sounds like he was a great friend 🇺🇸….

There is an old cowboy saying that you only need 1 good dog & 1 good horse in your life to have led a blessed life. But I hacked the next level. I've been fortunate to have a few great horses and dogs. But 1 horse and 1 dog standout...featured below. The dog was a gift from my dad. The horse is not perfect - dad bought him as a 3yo. He had been in a branding accident as a colt & was unridable. He still has some trauma from that but is unbeatable sorting cows, gathering, bringing in a sick animal. I had an accident and busted up my leg. I got to the corrals last night and my son had used my horse and my dog, gathered all the late calvers, sorted them, and was ready to haul them to summer pasture. He said "Mom! Hank is a heckuva horse isn't he? I had no idea how good he was. Sometimes I wonder how you stay on him!" Watching your kids get that joy is next level. 💜

Blessed life. Photos by my son. Praise God.

Mike Rowe had his mother, best selling author Peggy Rowe on his recent podcast. After her daily morning swim, Peggy saw a woman's backside in the locker room. She had an unusual tattoo on her rear-end, so Peggy asked her about it. You won't believe what it was. 😂

American wagyu local cowboy steaks paired with angus local rib steaks! Thank you ⁦@Lone_Crow_Ranch⁩

@scottwestacre I am sorry. 🙏 Cows look good though.

Short grass. We haven’t had much of any rain this year. Grass has barely greened up and very little new growth. Cows are harvesting old growth buffalo grass mixes which have good nutrition. Supplemental feed bales and nearby Milo stalks are carrying herd through till rains come.

Every Honeycrisp apple is a clone of a single tree planted at the University of Minnesota in 1962. Every one. Apple seeds are random. Plant a Honeycrisp seed and the new tree produces a small, sour apple that’s usually inedible. So apple growers do something old and clever. They cut a small branch off the original Honeycrisp tree, slot it into a slit in a young apple sapling, wrap the joint, and wait. The branch fuses to its new host and starts producing Honeycrisps. About 20 million Honeycrisp trees exist worldwide, every one a piece of that 1962 tree on different roots. Same goes for Gala, Fuji, Pink Lady, Granny Smith. Every Granny Smith on Earth traces back to a seedling found in 1868 by a woman named Maria Ann Smith in Australia. She’d thrown French crab apple cores onto her compost heap, one of them sprouted, and the apples it bore were unusually tart and good for cooking. That one tree is the ancestor of every Granny Smith in every grocery store on the planet. Wine has the bigger story. In the 1860s, a tiny aphid called phylloxera caught a boat from America to France, hidden in some grapevine cuttings. It eats grape roots. French vines had no defense and started dying everywhere. Within 15 years, French wine production crashed from about 11 billion bottles a year to 3 billion. The blight then tore through Italy, Spain, and Germany, and European wine was on the edge of collapse. The rescue came from Missouri and Texas. American grapevines had grown up with phylloxera and were immune to it. So growers chopped French grape varieties off at the trunk and joined them to American roots. Above the soil: still French grapes. Below the soil: aphid-proof American root. It worked. Today, almost every bottle of French, Italian, Spanish, Australian, and Californian wine you’ve ever drunk sits on top of an American root. The technique is ancient. Chinese farmers were grafting trees by 1000 BCE. A Greek medical text from 424 BCE describes it casually, like it was already old news. It works because plants don’t have a rejection system the way animals do. Cut two branches. Match the green layers just under the bark. Wrap them tight. In a few weeks the plumbing has fused into a single plant. A Syracuse University art professor named Sam Van Aken has spent 18 years building a single tree that grows 40 different fruits: peaches, plums, apricots, cherries, nectarines, almonds. In spring it blossoms in pink, white, and crimson all at once. He’s made more than a dozen. They sell for up to $30,000 each. Without grafting, there would be no commercial apple industry, no global wine industry, and most of the heirloom fruits humans have bred over the centuries would have gone extinct. One clean cut, and you’ve kept entire species alive.

We have 1 like that. Her name is Huckleberry. Only difference is she will hunt you down for scratches. No need to call her. Do not enter the pasture unless you are willing to pay the scratch tax. She will block the gate if necessary. 😂 That cow has brought us more joy than we deserve.

@KathyFortune9 @WidnerLindy @44Bridger We used to have a cow that we raised from a bottle calf. We’d call her name and she would run full blast and do the reining horse skid to stop just before she got to you. It was always funny to see people get wide eyed when a cow was coming in full blast.

A few of next year’s replacements, they were gentler until I decided to video them. Not up to @44Bridger or @KathyFortune9 docility standards.

@JimEspy @44Bridger @KathyFortune9 😂😂😂

@WidnerLindy @44Bridger @KathyFortune9 I’m definitely not a cow whisperer.

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

@cowbroker 🙏💜🙏

Smoke boiling off the hills this morning, multiple starts on the Pine Ridge

Fun fact: Pork shoulder is called "pork butt" because of historical shipping practices in 18th-century New England, where butchers packed pork shoulder cuts into large wooden barrels called "butts" for storage and transport.

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

By the way, it was clear from the day the administration announced the 172 mb SPR release that this draw would be much larger than Biden’s. Biden released 180 million barrels over 180 days. Trump is releasing 172 million barrels in just 90 days. The pace ultimately depends on what oil companies want, not what politicians want. What’s being ignored is that the U.S. is draining its own inventories… to refill other countries’ inventories. US companies are prohibited form selling the US SPR DIRECTLY to China. But you know how this is going to end! 😱

@CBKimbrell Agreed

Everyone was so upset when President Trump quipped about the 51st state. Alberta would be a welcome addition imo.

Counter point: Imagine being an American child. You’re born in the richest country in human history. Your odds of dying in a school shooting are lower than dying from a bee sting. Your daycare worker is overwhelmingly likely to love you. College is a choice, not a requirement. The kid down the street skipped it and makes $140K welding pipe. The plumber who fixed your sink last week owns three houses. You live somewhere people risk their lives to get INTO, not out of. You have running water, A/C, instant access to all human knowledge, and a fridge full of food your ancestors would have considered a miracle. Just a gentle reminder that the only people telling you you’re miserable are the ones who profit from your misery ❤️

@TheDailyCowman 2 of the best tasting fish in the sea

Hide your wives Hide your daughters Hide your mommas Hide your grandma's And most of all Hide your fish when Saint Larry is in town #SummerOfSaintLarry #Halibut #LingCod