Beads and Baubles

I read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20056-2003Dec21?language=printer">this front page article </a>in the Washington Post with a great deal of interest. I have talked about the red hot cattle market before and how nice it is to see but I do find some things in the article very interesting.<br />n<br />n<i>Ditto down at Dilmart Furniture. Carpets, sofas and large-screen TVs are riding off in pickups that usually haul heifers.<br />n<br />nA more sizable stampede of spending is underway at Dillon Implement and the local Chevrolet dealership, where $85,000 tractors and $35,000 pickups are jumping out of the lots.</i><br />n<!–more–><br />nNow maybe in Dillon there is a &acirc;