Category: The Homestead
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Rancher
I saw a term the other day that really made me scratch my head. Sustainable Cattle Rancher. Now I'll admit to only being a dumb cowboy but this doesn't make much sense. Maybe I need to look up the term sustainable.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>sustainable- of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a…
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Problem
<center><!– s9ymdb:109 –><img width="525" height="640" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/problemsolving.jpg" alt="" /></center><br />n<br />nShoot the son of a bitch doesn't seem to be an option here, but then I guess this problem solving guide appears to apply to things, not people. Shoot the bastard seems like an option.
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New Year Haiku
Winter snow drifts down,<br />n blanketing the new landscape<br />nwith pieces of old
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Tired
I am so sick and tired of this cold I have it isn't even funny. Usually you get a cold and in about a week you get over it. I first come down with symptoms on the 13th of December and I still am not over the damn thing. It's the damnedest thing, I start…
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The Code Of The West
<a href="http://beefmagazine.com/cowcalfweekly/the-code-west/">The Code Of The West</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>I use the term, "code of the west," a lot to signify all those things that are so great about our industry but are kind of unspoken intangibles. Of course, there never was a formal code truly defined, and I've read that Zane Gray first actually used the…
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Rowdy
<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/bed12062007.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:108 –><img width="250" height="188" style="float: left; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/bed12062007.serendipityThumb.jpg" alt="" /></a>I couldn't resist this one. My Darling Wife's new cat, Rowdy, found this basket and has decided it is a good bed for him. The basket is small enough that I don't think he will fit in it…
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Happy Thanksgiving
I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. I hope everyone has a good one out there. There is a new tradition of shopping out there on the day after Thanksgiving and it is becoming more and more a Thanksgiving "thing."<br />n<br />nThanksgiving to me is a celebration of the harvest season. A celebration of…
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Rowdy
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/cats/rowdy11122007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/rowdy11122007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>My Darling Wife's newest addition to the menagerie around here. Not quite 8 weeks old and hand fed for his whole life. Mama got killed by a coyote. Rowdy is his name. Believe me, it's apt. Taken 11/12/2007.</center>
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Firefighter
<center><!– s9ymdb:105 –><img width="683" height="700" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/uploads/firefighter.jpg" alt="" /></center><br />n<br />nI know this is not something I normally post but I couldn't help myself this time. This is my autistic son in his height of glory pretending to drive a firetruck. I know, autistic kids aren't supposed to pretend but…
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Ivory
<center><img width="640" height="386" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/ivoryclear.sized.jpg" alt="" /></center><br />n<br />nI had the unfortunate responsibility yesterday to have to order the vet to put Ivory to sleep yesterday. She was 15 years old and has been sick for a while now with kidney failure which advanced to the point that the best…