Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Curious
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/rock09072006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/rock09072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I found this curious rock formation when I was fighting the last fire I talked about. Normally sandstone like this wears down even but this rock had harder outer layers still intact where softer inner layers were gone leaving it looking like Swiss cheese.…
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Stupid Idea
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/17/news/wyoming/50-brand.txt" >Brand inspections for horses debated</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A proposal to make brand inspections optional for horses is being criticized by some horse owners – and by some brand inspectors, as well.<br />n<br />nThe Wyoming Legislative Brand Inspection Task Force voted last week to recommend that brand inspections be made optional for horses.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMaking…
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Fog
<center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published</center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/fog03162006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/fog03162006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The last of the fog burning off the tops of the hills. Taken 3/16/2006. </center>
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Monsanto and GMO Seeds
I found this story interesting. <br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/print/Monsanto%20buys%20Terminator%20seed%20company.htm" >Monsanto buys ‘Terminator’ seeds company</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The United States Government has been financing research on a genetic engineering technology which, when commercialized, will give its owners the power to control the food seed of entire nations or regions. The Government has been working quietly on this…
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Rain Totals
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/18/news/local/45-moisture.txt" >More moisture, but no record</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The weekend's wet weather didn't break any records but certainly provided more moisture than normal.<br />n<br />n………<br />n<br />nOther weekend rain totals, in inches, were: Joliet, 2.67; Red Lodge 2.44 (Saturday and Sunday); Nye 2.4; Derby Mountain, 1.93; Columbus, 1.93; Roundup, 1.24; Pompeys Pillar, 1.19; Hardin, 1.14;…
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September Snow
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/snow09172006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/snow09172006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It even snowed for a while yesterday during the rain storm we were having. As I said earlier, Feast or Famine. By the time all is said and done I expect we will have 3 inches of moisture over the 3 day storm. Taken…
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The Great Polluter
I always find it interesting that us Americans are all evil when it comes to pollution and the rest of the world is all good. With that thought in mind I present this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHINA_LEAD_POISONING?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Brain damage likely for 4 Chinese kids</a><br />n<br />nThe amazing thing about this story, it didn't happen in the…
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Talk About Wrong
I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2052-Rain-Showers.html">complained yesterday morning</a> that all I was getting was rain showers and I needed a rain storm. I WAS WRONG!!! It flat is raining here. Right now we are looking at about 2.5 inches of rain and the weather service says it should rain all day yet today before this thing leaves. <br…
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Hawk
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/hawk08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/hawk08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The Red Tailed Hawk that nest around here. I had to try the new version of GIMP out for photo manipulation. It's getting slicker an slicker all the time. Taken 8/14/2006.</center>
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Rain Showers
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/16/news/local/40-rain.txt" >City sees 1st rain in a month</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Billings on Friday received its first substantial rainfall in more than a month, officials said.<br />n<br />nBy 10 a.m., about .23 inches of rain had fallen on the city from a system that first rolled overhead about 9 p.m. Thursday, said National Weather Service meteorologist…