Outside Circle: Horse sales, ranch rodeos, roping, clinics, youth rodeos
Is it just me or is the month of June going by at warp speed? Just last week it was February and now it’s halfway through June. Time seems to be going faster and faster....
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Great summer series of all sorts, draft horses, bronc riding, kids rodeos
The summerlike temps have sure got the grass growing. It’s a welcome sight after the long winter and cold spring. It’s looking like a good hay year ahead too, so prospects are shiny. The ConneXion...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Rodeos, bull riding, horse sales, summer series, Indian relays
It’s finally feeling like spring time here on my branch of the creek. After days on end of cloudy skies and rain, the sun is shining brightly and the grass is growing so fast you...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Lots of summer series, bullriding in Belle, packhorse races, bronc riding, clinics
The forecast is for another round of cold, wet, rather dreary weather. I sure feel for anyone who just sheared and is range lambing in it. It’s more than just an inconvenience for them. But,...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Sheridan Leather Show, Clinics, Sorting Club, more clinics, bronc riding
The little bout of wintry spring weather has finally passed and it’s just beautiful here. The grass is taking advantage of that week of moisture and coming on strong. Looks like it will be a...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Ranch Rodeo entries, breakaway clinic, barrels, team roping, cowgirl camp
I see some folks are getting started with the season’s brandings. It’s nice seeing the green grass peeking through in their pictures. It looks like it’s going to be a big grass, hay making year...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Spring!, steer roping, Omaksee, barrels, clinics, steer wrestling and roping schools, grass founder alert
It’s finally spring. I know it is when it’s sunny, rainy, windy, muddy and dry, all on the same day. The grass is sure trying to grow and the cows are chasing it like crazy....
The Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: EHV-1 in Wyoming, no racing in Aberdeen, 40 years old, barrels, roping, cutting clinic
As I write this, many of you are in the clutches of a howling spring blizzard. I know you are weary to the bones and discouraged, but the green grass is coming, I promise. It...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: No racing in Ft. Pierre, barrels, barrels, clinics, roping, barrels and prayers needed
I sure feel for everyone in the flood zones. It just doesn’t let up. There’s so much snow in the whole Missouri River drainage that the water is going to stay up. I’ve had every...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Warmer weather, emotionally weary, updates, BLM horses, clinics, benefits, be praying
It’s 50 degrees here as I write this, with bright sunshine and water running everywhere from the melting of the abundant snow. I’m sure glad for the warming temps and promise of spring. It’s been...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: What a storm!, congrats, clinics, schools, rodeo schedules
I am absolutely stunned at the force and damage of the recent storms that inundated the nation in over 23 states. From hurrican winds in New Mexico that blew a train off of a trestle,...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Winter ticks, Snowden to Lexington, horse sale deadline, clinics, schools, barrels, broken trailer
Winter is still hanging on in my part of the country. I keep track of low/high temperatures on my calender. I only had two morning readings of over 0 degrees the whole month. Twelve days...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Cold, queen clinic, roughstock clinic, pole bending clinic, reining clinic, relays
Back in January a lady told me that she sure didn’t like the open winter and warm weather we were having as it always bred a summer drought. I hope she’s happy. Much of the...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Cold, Lockwood hurt, BB and SB colt challenge, Thybo fundraiser, clinics, schools
The deep freeze has continued in this area. There were a couple of nice days so I led the cows out into the winter pasture and caked them, assuming that they would be more than...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Thanks for the Memories, Bob
We lost one of our own. My brother-in-law, Bob Burke, passed away on Feb. 1, just a day after his 68th birthday. Cancer is a wicked enemy. He fought it valiantly. I won’t say it...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Long Pines Livestock wins again, high school rodeo fundraiser, rodeo schools, barrels, Brannaman
This weather sure has gone from one extreme to another. From a chinook that blew the snow into water and made the creeks and draws run to bone freezing record cold, all in a couple...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Horses are livestock, SDQHA Banquet, ranch sort, barrels, dummy roping, reining clinic
New Year’s brought itself in without my help for yet another year. My grandboys and I celebrated the new year by caking cows, chopping ice and spending the last day of school vacation together. We’d...
Outside Circle By Jan Swan Wood: Congrats Larry, Trevor semi-retires, Roundup meeting, team roping, barrels, team sort
Winter sure returned with gusto! We had a nice brown Christmas here in the morning, but by nightfall when we got home from family festivities, it was white. It’s still snowing as I write this,...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Congrats Tucker, Casey Tibbs movie, clinics, coronation, ranch show, ranch ropings, SDQHA banquet
It’s a snowy, white start to the month here. At least the sun is finally shining today, but it was so bright after days of gray skies that I was squinting like a mole. Rumor...
Outside Circle by Jan Swan Wood: Ranch roping, sorting, Feek’s Vision preview, Brenn Hill and Andy Nelson, coronation, roughstock
The forecast is calling for a snowy weekend as I write this. I hope they’re wrong. They are so often wrong about rain, I wish it would carry through for snow too. The fall work...
