Category: The Ranch
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Going Home
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/home01292007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/home01292007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Walking the two-year old heifers home to calve them. They should be starting by the 10th of February but there is always a few early ones so I brought them home now. It also lets them get used to the…
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Praise
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Feed The Needy
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/01/28/news/business/25-donate.txt" >Hamburger Helper</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Every rancher has cattle who get old or injured. And for most ranchers, their emotional attachment to the animals forces a financial decision<br />n<br />nIf the rancher takes the animal to the sales ring, on its way to the packing plant, it could fall and be injured. If it's injured…
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Time
Time has this really funny habit. It keeps ticking on no matter what. You go on with your daily life and routines and all of a sudden you look up and notice that the month is about over, time has marched on and you almost didn't notice.<br />n<br />nMarching forward on,<br />n Slick ice cleaned…
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Funny Thing
A funny thing happened on the way to the feed ground the other day, the replacement heifer calves really started to look good to me finally. I'm still in shock about how good they look. Let me explain.<br />n<br />nAt weaning time I keep a number of the best heifer calves to use as replacement…
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Shelter
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/shelter01112007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/shelter01112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The latest storm brought more wind than snow to the area. Here, the calves are huddled under the bank out of the wind with only a couple of them showing. Any port in as storm you know. Taken 1/11/2007.</center>
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Premonition
I must have had a premonition this morning when I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2378-I-Must-Be-Deaf.html">wrote this</a>. How did it go?<br />n<br />nTractor wouldn't run. We worked on it for a couple of hours and give up on it and went and fed without it. The hired hand didn't think much of loading and feeding the 7 tons of…
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Memories
The recent Blizzards in Colorado and a book I am reading have reminded me of the winter of 96-97 in this area. It rivaled the historical winter of 1887 in it's ferocity and snow cover around here. It started in mid October and didn't end until mid April.<br />n<br />nI have never fed cows so…
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Interesting Phone Call
I got an interesting phone call from my banker yesterday. He informed me that he was <strong>dropping</strong> the interest rate on my loan by 1.25%. He said "Your putting as much money in your business as we are putting in ours." I was quite shocked by all this but glad to hear it. Any way…
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Good Looking
I had a neighbor drive through my place "looking around" the other day. He stopped and visited when he was done and told me "That is one nice looking bunch of two-year olds, I think they are the best I've ever seen." I know, I should have just said thank you or something similarly modest…