Category: The Ranch
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Dry Place
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/dry03292007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/dry03292007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The calves enjoying a dry spot to lay during a break in the storm. I would guess we had 12-16 inches of snow. The tractor you see in the background is used for plowing snow when it gets to deep.…
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Snow Update
We got about 16 inches of snow with 3-4 foot drifts so far out of the storm. I've been busy all day getting to the cattle and getting them fed. What little I looked around everything appeared to be all right. The cows and calves are all bunched up in a brushy draw to get…
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I Really Need This, NOT!
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/03/28/news/local/30-storm.txt" >High winds, deep snow forecast for wide area</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Beginning today, a two-day winter storm is expected to bring a dramatic turn in the weather – in the form of 12 to 18 inches of snow for residents from Livingston to Miles City. Winds between 20 to 35 mph are also expected.<br />n<br…
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Translation
Sometimes what a hired hand says needs a little translation. I thought I would jot down some of it here. When you interview them o course they know how to do it all and they are the best you've ever seen at it. Then once they start working watch out for some of these phrases.<br…
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Thinking
<blockquote>Writing – so different from ranching.<br />n<br />n“Writing is all in your head,” Groneberg says. “Ranching is all body, and you can get by without too much thinking.”</blockquote><br />n<br />nI read the above quote in <a href="http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/03/12/territory/ter12.txt">a story about Tom Groneberg</a>, author, rancher,hired hand, and all around good guy, and thought I was going to…
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Question
Again, one of those pop culture things I just don't get. Can anybody tell me why it is so necessary to change the time from standard to daylight savings? I don't care if it is 3 weeks earlier than normal or not this year, I don't see the benefit at all. Some people claim it…
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Rain
Okay, this is ridiculous. It's the 8th of March and it's raining here. The ground is still frozen underneath and there is still snow and ice around in places. Adding rain to this slushy, muddy, icy, miserable ground we have around here is not necessary. It just makes the cattle, My Darling Wife, and me…
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First Calf
Spring has officially Sprung for me and a new year has begun. The first calf on the cows was spotted yesterday. The cows don't get the attention the first calf heifers do. I knew the cows could be starting any time now so it was not a surprise, nice to see but not a surprise.<br…
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Ruin My Day
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/ruin03032007.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:106 –><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/ruin03032007.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Here is a really good way to ruin a persons day. By the time I got it fixed yesterday it was after noon and the cows decided we weren't going to feed them at all. Taken 3/3/2007.</center>
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Stand Off
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/standoff03012007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/standoff03012007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This heifer was so excited to have a calf she didn't know what to do with it. She kept throwing it around with her head and knocking it down she was so excited. I had to get in the stall…