Category: The Ranch
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Talk About Wrong
I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2052-Rain-Showers.html">complained yesterday morning</a> that all I was getting was rain showers and I needed a rain storm. I WAS WRONG!!! It flat is raining here. Right now we are looking at about 2.5 inches of rain and the weather service says it should rain all day yet today before this thing leaves. <br…
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Rain Showers
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/16/news/local/40-rain.txt" >City sees 1st rain in a month</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Billings on Friday received its first substantial rainfall in more than a month, officials said.<br />n<br />nBy 10 a.m., about .23 inches of rain had fallen on the city from a system that first rolled overhead about 9 p.m. Thursday, said National Weather Service meteorologist…
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Yet Again
I go out yesterday morning to do chores and line things out and what do I see, smoke. There is a fire off by the mountain yet again. No lightning for weeks, I have no idea how it started but I know what to do, off to fight it. I start to head for it…
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Happenings
Not much going on around here. Watching the calves grow fatter every day. We spent the last couple of days getting the corral ready for shipping. Don't have a firm shipping date yet, but the corral is now ready. I am still working at confirming the 29th of this month as shipping. The vet/brand inspector…
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Negativity
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Grazing
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/grazing081472006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/grazing081472006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cattle contentedly grazing on the dry, brown grass. Bitch as I will about it the dry, brown grass has a lot of punch to it and the calves are really growing well on it. Less than a month to shipping. Let them put…
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Lost and Found
The other day when I was preg checking heifers I knew I was missing one Yearling but wasn't too worried about it. I assumed the neighbor to my north that had the last two I got in so I assumed that was where the last one was since the yearlings have been there for almost…
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Sore Behind
Three trips to Billings to get everything I wanted to sell hauled up to the market. One hundred and eighty miles per trip. That's 540 miles total. Sixty dollars of gas per trip. One hundred and eighty dollars to haul all the critters up there. Sale is today but I won't be there, I have…
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Cute Little Guy
<center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published<br />n<br />nSeeing what the calves looked like when they were first born. I am not saying this is the same red calf I posted a picture of the other day but there is a hell of a difference in just a few months between the two.</center><br…
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Preg Check
<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pregcheck.jpg'><img width='250' height='230' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pregcheck.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>Well that little dirty job is done. We worked the yearling replacement heifers and had the vet preg check them. Right at ninety percent of the replacements were pregnant. Some people would consider that a little low for yearling replacement heifers but for the way…