Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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An Answer
I've always wondered how Daylight Savings Time saved energy. It never made sense to me. Know I see the answer.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/54363?utm_source=onion_rss_daily" >Daylight Saving Time Yields Massive Daylight Surplus</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman announced Monday that the country's seven-month-long effort to conserve sunshine has resulted in the largest national daylight surplus since…
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How Bad Is It
One of the things that always catches my eye is talk of a drought. I know and understand the problems this situation causes. Australia is experiencing one this year and it is pretty bad. How bad is it?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>EMERGENCY supplies of grain will be imported to feed drought-stricken stock, as forecasts for Australia's winter…
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Double Meaning
I have an external hard drive sitting on my computer desk that I use for picture backups. It gets very warm and one of the cats has discovered it and loves to lay on it to keep warm. This morning I told My Darling Wife, "There's a cat laying on my hard drive." <br />n<br…
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Coyote
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/coyote10222006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/coyote10222006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>If you look real close there is a coyote in the center of this picture (best viewed large, click on picture). The only thing I had on hand to shoot the coyote with was my camera. Taken 10/22/2006.</center>
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DUH!!!
This one goes in the No Shit Sherlock file.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.kxmc.com/getArticle.asp?ArticleId=58719">Cattle market affecting ranchers</a><br />n<br />nNow who would have every guessed that the cattle market affects ranchers. This is like flash news. Us dumb ranchers just be tooo stopid to know this obviously. I'm happy for the update.<br />n<br />n<strong>It's obvious, but perhaps worth…
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The Budget, Jon Tester, And The Truth
<a href="http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75033">Tester Would Boost Budget by $89.4 Billion, Burns by $1.2 Billion, NTUF Study of Candidates' Platforms Shows</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As Montana Senate candidates Jon Tester and Conrad Burns court voters down the final campaign stretch, taxpayers can look to their platforms for real distinctions: that's the assessment of a study released today by the non-partisan…
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Sunrise
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise10152006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise10152006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Another beautiful sunrise in the Big Sky Country. Taken 10/15/2006.</center>
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Sheriff’s Election
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/26/news/state/25-sheriff_x.txt" >Big Horn sheriff candidates defend records</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Big Horn County sheriff candidates Lawrence "Pete" Big Hair and Debbie Uffelman Winburn are battling not only for the job but also against questions that they aren't qualified to serve.<br />n<br />nBig Hair is accused of improprieties as a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer. Winburn is…
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Rain Problems
I'm lucky. All it's seems to do lately is rain around here but that doesn't bother me. We are storing moisture in the ground for next year and actually growing a little grass. It's not good for all people though.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/26/news/local/20-beets.txt" >Rain could spoil record sugar beet harvest</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Seldom does one hear…
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A Movement
Are we beginning to get a movement here?<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061020/people_nm/germany_fashion_schiffer_dc" >Claudia Schiffer says models are too thin</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Claudia Schiffer believes models are now too skinny to be attractive even though the German supermodel may herself be slightly underweight despite a voracious appetite and predilection for chocolate.<br />n<br />n"It doesn't really look good any…