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John C. Dofflemyer

@drycrik

Cattleman, poet, photographer

 Dry Creek, Tulare County, CA
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Joined January 2014
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Weaning Steers drycrikjournal.com/2023/05/1…

Weaning Steers

  I think we’ve finally caught up and close to being on time with our ranch work since the last Atmospheric River at the end of March.  We got across the creek towards the end of April when f…

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Atmospheric River Repairs drycrikjournal.com/2023/05/0…

Atmospheric River Repairs

The grass has turned while we’ve been busy repairing our fences in order to sort and ship our calves to town. Because the brush catchers upstream failed to hold all the debris, our pipe fence…

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Crossing the Creek drycrikjournal.com/2023/04/2…

Crossing the Creek

We haven’t been able to cross Dry Creek for three months due to the series of Atmospheric Rivers that began last December. Subsequently, Robbin and I haven’t seen the cattle for three m…

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THEY COME TO ME drycrikjournal.com/2023/04/1…

THEY COME TO ME (aka “WILD OATS”)

Top: Jim Wells, Leroy Whitney, Scott Erickson. Middle: Jack Erickson, Kyle Loveall, Gary Davis, Jr., Forrest Homer, Mehrten Homer, E. J. Britten, Earl McKee, Jr. Bottom: Clarence Holdbrooks, John D…

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OUR SHORT MOMENT drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/2…

OUR SHORT MOMENT

    We have left our mark on this ground: the house, the pipe, the horses, cattle, shop and barn—and the avenues   between them—that were not here forty years ago where the deer lay down beside the…

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Spilling Terminus Dam youtube.com/watch?v=BK7P4Sgo… drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…
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FLOODWATER drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…

FLOODWATER

  The creek-flood bears no malice as it carves its way to a flatland war unearthing trees and buried cobbles   of past centuries—laying waste to man’s old and new improvements. It cares no more tha…

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THE GRAY DAYS drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…

THE GRAY DAYS

  Every day is a holiday when you can’t remember what day it is—   when you can’t leave the driveway, can’t leave the blacktop, when it’s too wet to plow   for weeks at a time as the creek rises an…

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SHELTERED IN PLACE drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…

SHELTERED IN PLACE

                            Highwater debris,                         enough to measure peak flow                         gauging stations miss.   We’ve begun naming creeks that flood the dry draws…

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DESERT DUELLER drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…

DESERT DUELLER

    We never quite know how our negligence is ultimately received.   Somewhere upstream, a tire too close to the creek, became humor and irony   tumbling downstream to balance and settle with the f…

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Cleaning Culverts

With a break in the weather, we, with the help of our neighbors and their equipment, began addressing the plugged culverts that were spilling flood water across Dry Creek Rd. Though we had cleaned …

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Damages Between Storms drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…

Damages Between Storms

  Another 1.58″ in the last 24 hrs., 2-day total 3.79″, forecast of 4+” through Wednesday, 3/15. Both sets of brush catchers caught hell and will have to be replaced.  Eroded far …

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Dry Creek, March 10, 2023 Video drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…

Dry Creek: March 10, 2023 Video

1:00 p.m. @ our driveway

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Dry Creek, March 10, 2023 drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/1…
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BOBCAT drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/0…

BOBCAT

    Safe arms of an oak support an unruffled pause for all but the dogs.      

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MOTHER NATURE 101 drycrikjournal.com/2023/03/0…

MOTHER NATURE 101

    1.   Thrum upon the roof, the creek stretches loudly now, rain streams day and night   from heaven’s dark skies— a decade of dreams and prayers descend upon us.     2.   Our totems come and go …

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SULPHUR PEAK 3,448′ drycrikjournal.com/2023/02/2…
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WINDMILL SPRING drycrikjournal.com/2023/02/2…

WINDMILL SPRING

rocks, rockpiles, granite, lichen, time, earth, anthropomorphism, soul,

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Weathermaker drycrikjournal.com/2023/02/2…
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COMING ALIVE drycrikjournal.com/2023/02/0…

COMING ALIVE

    After ten dry years, the drought-killed, dead-standing oaks have shed their limbs in piles, like clothes at their feet—some   centuries claiming space, offering summer shade to cows, acorns to …

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