Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: montana

  • View

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/string09072007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/string09072007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I took this a while ago. If you look real close you can see the cattle streaming down the road while cleaning out the Williams place. Taken 9/7/2007.</center>

  • Clean Out

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/clean09132007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/clean09132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We cleaned out the windmill pasture the other day and this is all we could find. Everything else moved out to the better grass towards home on their own. Lucky or not is the question. We found 13 critters while…

  • Permanent Dry

    I'm really beginning to wonder if <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/climate-watch/no-more-drought-its-a-permanent-dry/2007/09/06/1188783415754.html">this</a> isn't going to be the situation in Montana any more. The Permanent Dry instead of calling it a drought every year. I know its a funny thing to post on a morning where I got a little moisture last night, the first in about 3 months, but…

  • Another Sunrise

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise09022007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise09022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Sunrise in the great state of Montana. Taken 9/2/2007.</center>

  • Not Right

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/09/05/news/state/21-emergency.txt">GOP-led chamber may pass emergency fire bills, then adjourn</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>House Republican leaders are working on a plan to freeze the Democrat-controlled Senate out of the special legislative session that begins today and guarantee that only GOP-backed firefighting bills end up on the governor's desk.<br />n<br />nHouse Speaker Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, confirmed that he…

  • Blame Game

    When <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> announced a special session to pay for the fire fighting costs this year, the Montana Blogs started up. Depending on which blog you read, either the Republicans or the Democrats were to blame for this and that was the end of the story. As normal I didn't believe either side…

  • Big Sky

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/holding08222007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/holding08222007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We are gathering up the yearling replacement heifers to work them. My girls were holding up the yearlings in a corner when I rode up. The picture with the so big sky was really intriguing. Taken 8/22/2007.</center>

  • Good News Or Not

    I see in the paper that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/15/news/state/25-easternmt.txt">Type 2 Management team</a> is coming in to take over the Eastern Montana fires. The actual quote is;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Type 2 management team from California is arriving to fight more than 20 fires in Custer, Powder River and Rosebud counties. Management of the fires will be…

  • Smoke

    <a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2007/US_AMO_2007225_lrg.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:109 –><img width='540' height='334' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke08132007.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />n<br />nHere is why it has been so smokey lately in Montana. We keep talking about the fires in Montana but it looks like the ones in Idaho are really big and nasty.<br />n<br />n<strong>I make it a rule…

  • Fire Information

    There is a slew of wildfires in Montana and here is a roundup of stories about them.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/20-fires_z.txt" >Church camps evacuated due to fire threat</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/22-fires_z.txt" >Buildings lost in eastern fires</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/24-fires_z.txt" >Fire officials fear wind shift south of Big Timber, Livingston</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/30-fires_z.txt" >Wildfires dump ash, smoke…