Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Talk About Blue
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/clouds09192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/clouds09192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>High wispy clouds against a very blue, clear Montana sky. Taken 9/19/2006.</center>
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Help Out
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/07/news/local/57-pumpkin.txt" >Pumpkin party set for children</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Scottish Rite Childhood Language Disorders Clinic is celebrating the seventh annual Pumpkins for Kids 2006 throughout October.<br />n<br />nThe fundraiser was established to help support therapy programs for children with speech and language impairments and to promote community awareness of speech and language disorders in children.<br />n<br…
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People Need To Think
<a href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006610040332" >'Organic' doesn't mean safer or more nutritious</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>It's a bad moment for believers in the mystical wonders of organic and natural foods. Deadly E. coli bacteria, lurking in spinach from one of the biggest organic farms in America, just killed one woman and hospitalized at least 29 other people with kidney failure.…
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Large Neighbors
The Padalock Ranch is one of my neighbors. They rank somewhere around number 5 for the largest privately held cattle ranch in the US. This little blurb in the Gazette caught my eye.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/06/news/wyoming/90-history.txt" >History of Padlock Ranch topic of meeting</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Dan Scott will talk about the history of the Padlock Ranch,…
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Who Owns Your Computer
You might think you do but not according to Bill Gates.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2006-10-04-vista-piracy_x.htm" >Microsoft to lock pirates out of Vista PCs</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Windows Vista will have new anti-piracy technology that locks people out their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after installation.<br />n<br />nIf Vista is not activated with a…
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Weaned Cows
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows10022006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cows10022006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows out grazing after thier calves were weaned. Taken 10/02/2006.</center>
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Is This Any Surprise?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/05/news/state/30-feds.txt" >Feds consider grazing ban in fire area</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The thousands of cattle that ordinarily graze on federal and private land south of Big Timber should not be there next year, because they'd be too hard on the land as it rebounds from the big Derby Mountain fire, a federal report says.<br />n<br />nIts…
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Fiscally Responsible, Not
In Montana's Senate Race, Jon Tester keeps portraying himself as fiscally conservative and wanting to balance the Federal budget. He continually blasts Sen Burns for cutting taxes and spending money that the country doesn't have. Now Tester has all kinds of ideas on how to spend money, extending CHIPS to all children, but I have…
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Fall Colors
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/colors10022006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/colors10022006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Fall is definitely in the air with the associated color changes and the change in the way the air feels. I know, a little esoteric, but the truth. The early morning light helps accentuate the colors here. Taken 10/02/2006.</center>
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Maybe Not So Bad
I was fairly disappointed with the way the calf weights turned out this year. Nothing I can do about it since the dry weather was the problem but that doesn't change the disappointment. I've been visiting with some different people since then though and have been revising my opinion. Maybe it wasn't that bad.<br />n<br…