Cold Bore Ranch

01/15/2025

57 days after having a major chest invasion by the delicate hands of a cardiac surgeon I put steel shoes on two horses. All this thanks to a wonderful team of highly specialized people. Now I didn’t exactly get permission to do this work but sometimes that’s just how it goes.

01/15/2025

6th day in Arizona, fifth ride

01/08/2025

Really hard on the ego when something like this happens, funny thing is he’s pointed the wrong way, he went in backwards

01/08/2025

1° above in northern Kansas a nice day for a drive until you have to make a fueling stop. More snow than we’ve seen anywhere else this winter.

12/26/2024

Separating yak calves from their mommas.

12/26/2024

Just relaxing on a semi warm Minnesota day

12/11/2024

Never had a dog like Cutter. He only wants a job, I just point at an animal and he is on it putting it right where I want it to go. Very loyal and very polite. Hope I can keep him healthy

12/02/2024

Brooke A sweet Charolais heifer, for some reason was developing horns. Not all Charolais are polled, anyway they got nipped off by Chuck Cole, the horn master

12/02/2024

Chuck patiently putting a Charolais cow through the chute. They can weigh 1600 lbs and be 4 feet wide at the belly, pretty tight fit

12/02/2024

Vaccination time

11/30/2024

Big day at CBR North. Some electrical work, burned some piles, the Kubota was slightly frozen in and feeding hay to always hungry cattle. My first day of accomplishment after my little bit of surgery. 2 1/2 weeks

11/24/2024

So a guy is just a little bit laid up after a small surgery and a friend just showed up with a large trailer load of dry, cut and split oak. This stuff is valuable. “Nope” it’s on me he says. Wood heat is so heartwarming when one is stuck in a house on mostly grey days. Keith Pommerening aka Diesel is that special man

11/22/2024

Winter is rolling in here in Northern Minnesota. We get to spend half of it here with our animals this year. Hopefully some snowshoeing and lots of time to accomplish interior projects. First season in our new farm house and our wood furnace is such a big part of our lifestyle. This bed of oak coals is how it greets each day. There is nothing like wood heat.

11/14/2024

11/06/2024

We have been saying it our whole life and it happened last night. God did bless America

11/06/2024

Had a great time visiting my son Greg and his family, stopped by a piece of property they purchased, it is absolutely amazing. It is bordered on the north by a 15 foot wide creek and on the east side by the sunrise river. will be a great place to build a home. I think he’s gonna get some help with that 

10/31/2024

About time for this

10/31/2024

One heavy duty Charolais bull calf to be sold. Weighs about half again better than the heifers. Decided to breed all to Wagyu for F-1 calves so this guy has no future here