Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Passing the Land Along
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/01/news/state/20-ranchers.txt" >Study sees shift away from ranching near Yellowstone</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Owning a slice of paradise isn't what it used to be. Generations of ranchers on the rural fringes of Yellowstone National Park passed their land to offspring or sold it to likeminded people.<br />n<br />nBut for the past decade and longer, more ranches have…
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I’m Confused
I know, confusion is normal for me but I have to bring it up, I'm confused by this;<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1161775893110520.xml&coll=2" >New U.S. rules allow single-sex education</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>For the first time in a generation, public schools have won broad freedom to teach boys and girls separately, stirring a new debate about equality in the…
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Halloween
A man was walking home alone late one foggy night, when behind him he hears:<br />n<br />nBUMP…<br />n<br />nBUMP…<br />n<br />nBUMP…<br />n<br />nWalking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.<br />n<br />nBUMP…<br />n<br />n<br…
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A Wee Touch of Winter
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cowsnow103020093?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cowsnow103020093.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We got a little bit of snow yesterday and some cold temperatures. The cows really thought it was winter. This morning it is 0 degrees Fahrenheit here. Brr. I'm sure the cows are going to be wanting to come home for a bale of…
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Memorial
<center>We took a little drive on Sunday and took some pictures, here is one of them.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/memorial10292006.jpg'><img width='700' height='467' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/memorial10292006.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We stopped by Crow Agency and visited the Apsaalooke Nation Veterans Memorial. I have been wanting to stop by here for quite a while now and am…
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Much Ado About Nothing/Something
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/31/news/state/65-tester.txt">Unlicensed Tester butchered neighbor's animals, wasn't cited</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Tester never had a state-required license for the butchering business he ran at his Big Sandy-area farm, but state records show an inspector visited the shop, but did not cite Tester for breaking the law.<br />n<br />nTester cut meat on an…
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Pulling Beets
<center>We took a little drive on Sunday and took some pictures, here is one of them.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pulling10292006.jpg'><img width='700' height='467' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pulling10292006.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I've mentioned the trouble the beet farmers having getting their beets out of the ground. Here you see they are finally able to get them mudded out…
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Back in South Korea
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SKOREA_US_BEEF?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >1st U.S. beef shipment arrives in SKorea</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The first shipment of U.S. beef in nearly three years arrived in South Korea on Monday after the country lifted an import ban triggered by fears of mad cow disease, the Agriculture Ministry said.<br />n<br />nThe nine-ton shipment of American beef was processed at a…
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Winblows
<a href="http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/061025vistabug/">Bug causes Microsoft to push Vista RTM to Nov. 8</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>PC manufacturers that expected to get their hands on the final version of Windows Vista on Wednesday have to wait a couple more weeks for the OS, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.<br />n<br />nMicrosoft Corp. originally targeted Wednesday for Vista's…
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People Are Idiots
I voted absentee a little while ago because it is easier and quicker for me. When i was done I looked at the envelope and felt the weight and knew that it was going to take more than one stamp to return it so I put two on it and sent it in. I guess…