Category: Story Sunday
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Trailing Cattle
My dad talks about the days of running cattle in this country when he was a kid. <br />n<br />nHis Granddad was more of a farmer than rancher but he had quite a few cattle. Once a year his granddad would gather up his older steers and trail them to the railroad in Hardin. Dad…
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Cottonseed Cake
We started to feed some cake the other day and I got to thinking about the old cottonseed cake we used to feed. My dad always talks about its feed value, 40% protein, and how hard it was, the cows really had to slow down to eat it, but what I remember about it was…
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Paint
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/paint10022007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/paint10022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<br />n<center>Paint coming up and seeing what I am up to. Taken 10/02/2007.</center><br />n<br />n<br />nWhy is it the critters you really are fond of are such a pain in the ass? When it comes to horses the ones that…
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Pick It Up
I met some family today in Billings and went out for lunch with them. We try to get together for "special events" and with my oldest daughter's and my birthday coming up this week, that qualified. While I was paying the bill for our meal I remembered a really bad habit I had for a…
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Injuries
One of the interesting things about living in the middle of nowhere is the sudden trips to town to the emergency room. I have two stories to tell in this regard.<br />n<br />nThe first story involves my Dad. I was just a kid in school at the time this happened. First a little ground work.…
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Strange Breeding
I brought up the fact that there is some <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2811-Guess.html">dairy blood in my cow herd</a> and it seemed to take quite a few people by surprise so I thought I would talk about it a little. Like I said my dad decided to try and breed some milk production into his Angus cows and…
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Passing Through
I've talked about by dad's father but I want to pass on some about my dad's mom and what I know of them. So in this story I will be talking about my Great-Granddad and Great-Grandma whom I don't think were alive when I was born.<br />n<br />nThe beginnings of this story have always intrigued…
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Wild Horses
One thing I always remember is my dad talking about the wild horses around here when he was a kid. The neighbors would get together about once a year and gather them up and cut off whatever they needed for horses for the year and let them loose again.<br />n<br />nI wish I had a…
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Guard
My Mom's brother, my Uncle, always told two stories that always struck my interest about his grandpa. The way I understand it, these quick stories are about his mother's father but I could be wrong there. A quick bit of history, my mother's side of my family is all Russian-Germans. I was always under the…