Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Calm Them Down
Here is one way to calm down wild cattle.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060922/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_poland_cow">Polish woman caught growing marijuana for cow</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Polish woman who grew marijuana to calm the nerves of her cow has been charged with cultivating a narcotic by police in the western town of Lobez.<br />n<br />nThe cow had been "skittish and unruly"…
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Minimum Wage
Jon Tester's <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/23/opinion/guest/35-tester.txt">spiel about a living wage</a> in today's Gazette bothers me a little.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>All Montanans are encouraged by our state's recent surge of economic expansion. After more than a decade of stagnation, unemployment is down, per capita income is up and regions of Montana are experiencing rapid economic growth.<br />n<br />nBut if…
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Weather
Unbelievable. It doesn't rain all summer and now it seems like it can't stop. When I went to bed last night we had 3/4" of rain and it rained most of the night so I don't know how much we had. I know it's getting ridiculous though. I noted last evening that the water is…
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Going Home
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/out09192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/out09192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>If you look really close, you will see a couple of cows on the hillside working in towards home for shipping. The storm had drove a bunch into this hole back here and these were the last ones to work out. Taken 9/19/2006.</center>
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Getting Ready
We've been going like mad gathering cattle and getting ready for shipping. We had the fences and corrals and stuff ready but getting the cattle in and sorted takes a while. So, here I am at one of my busiest times of the year and what do I receive in the mail? A summons to…
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Catching Up
It seems like some people are just discovering my <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/897-What-Is-That!.html">picture of Biscuit with a snake</a> I posted about a 1 1/2 years ago. In honor of that I thought I would post a picture of our other indoor/outdoor cat.<br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/cats/mittens09182006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/mittens09182006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Mittens trotting along…
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Feeding The Wolf
I would like to thank Wulfgar for this one. I enjoyed it tremendously.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://wulfgar.typepad.com/a_chicken_is_not_pillage/2006/09/the_wolf_you_fe.html" >The Wolves Inside You</a><br />n<br />n An elder Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life. He<br />n said to them, "A fight is going on inside me.. it is a terrible fight and it is<br />n between two…
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Beef Demand Weaking
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=69504" >In The Cattle Markets: Declining Domestic Demand for Beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>What do recent beef demand index calculations reveal? Unfortunately, it’s not encouraging. After strengthening sharply during 2004, demand for Choice retail beef showed signs of softening during the first half of 2005, but the year-to-year declines were negligible. During the last half of…
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Sun Up
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/breaking09192006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/breaking09192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun breaking over the hills illuminating the cows working their way in for weaning/shipping. Taken 9/19/2006. </center>
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More Negativity