Category: The Homestead
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Unbelivable
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smokie07132006.jpg'><img width='110' height='82' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smokie07132006.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Pillar of smoke from the Pine Ridge fire.</div></div>I have been watching the smoke all day from the Hardin area. It's over 90 degrees and the wind has been blowing strong all day around 20 mph so it's getting worse and…
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I Do
Fourteen years. Fourteen years ago today I joined with my other half to form a whole that continues to this day. Through the good, bad, arguments and pain our union continues on and grows stronger all the time. Fourteen years might not seem like a lot to some people, who have been married longer, and…
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Damn The Bad Luck
I'm not a charity, I don't think, and I'm way to far away, but I would sure love to have a crack at this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/10/news/state/55-books.txt">Woman giving away 35K books</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>BUTTE — A local woman is leaving town and offering her collection of 35,000 books free to any charity willing to haul them…
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Fireworks
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/fireworks07042006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/fireworks07042006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/firework07042006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/firework07042006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A sample of our own personal fireworks display at the ranch. Taken 7/4/2006.</center>
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Parents Abdicating Their Responsibilities
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/28/opinion/gazette/50-gazetteopinion.txt">Gazette Opinion: Reasonable road rules for teen drivers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As of this weekend, Montana joins the other 49 states in making special provisions for helping young drivers gain skills they need to be safe drivers.<br />n<br />nAt long last, Montana's graduated driver's license law will take effect. For the most part, the law reinforces…
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Wow, What a Concept
Did you know if I move my mustache out of the way so the boy can see my lips he has a lot better luck copying the sounds I am making? I'll have to remember that.<br />n<br />n<strong>It was an opportunity and we did the best we could and you just move on after that,…
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Busy Bee
<img width='700' height='598' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.k3smom.com/d/460-1/rosebee.jpg' alt='' /><br />n<br />nI usually post pictures taken by myself or occasionally My Darling Wife but this time I post a picture taken by My Little Photographer. My youngest girl has quite an eye for taking pictures and she gets some interesting ones at time. Different than I would…
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Energy Crisis
I'm tired. I don't know if it is everything catching up with me or what the deal is but I'm tired. I could talk about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/04/news/state/25-senate.txt">Primary election coming up</a>, in which I all ready voted, but I'm too tired to. I could talk about the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/04/news/business/35-pitch.txt">disingenuous way</a> in which petition gatherers are…
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Voting
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/02/news/local/30-vote.txt">Absentee ballots pour into election office"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An old election quip encourages the electorate "to vote early and often." Nowadays the first half of the maxim is legal and popular as a record number of voters cast their ballots before election day.<br />n<br />n"It is a growing trend," said Duane Winslow, Yellowstone County election…
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Rest In Peace
<center>The LORD Is My Shepherd<br />nA Psalm of David.</center><br />n<br />n1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.<br />n2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:<br />n he leadeth me beside the still waters. Rev. 7.17<br />n3 He restoreth my soul:<br />n he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for…