Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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The Pluto Controversy
Who ever thought that the International Astronomical Union voting to take away the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060825/ap_on_sc/planet_mutiny">status of Pluto as a planet</a> would create such controversy. Some people are very upset by it. I saw a cartoon right after it happened that poked fun at it but I didn't think that it would come true.<br />n<br />n<center><a…
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Cute Little Guy
<center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published<br />n<br />nSeeing what the calves looked like when they were first born. I am not saying this is the same red calf I posted a picture of the other day but there is a hell of a difference in just a few months between the two.</center><br…
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Laugh
I got this in e-mail the other day and found it very humourous. Hope you do to.<br />n<br />nWhy it is good to be a man?<br />n<br />n1. Your ass is never a factor in a job interview.<br />n2. Your orgasms are real. Always.<br />n3. Your last name stays put..<br />n4. The garage is all…
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Progress
<a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060827a1.html" >Barbecue chain to serve U.S. beef</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A restaurant chain plans to resume serving U.S. beef at dozens of its branches nationwide, company officials said Saturday.<br />n<br />nZenshoku, based in Osaka Prefecture, plans to offer U.S. beef at the company's 57 Korean barbecue restaurants across Japan soon, the company said.<br />n<br />nThe Nihon…
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Preg Check
<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pregcheck.jpg'><img width='250' height='230' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pregcheck.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>Well that little dirty job is done. We worked the yearling replacement heifers and had the vet preg check them. Right at ninety percent of the replacements were pregnant. Some people would consider that a little low for yearling replacement heifers but for the way…
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Laggards
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/lag08252006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/lag08252006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I knew I was missing a couple of yearlings when I gathered on Thursday. A kindly neighbor called yesterday and said he had them so I went and got them so they could be preg checked with the rest today. Taken 8/25/2006.</center>
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Wide Open Skies
Hat tip to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/h/blogs/citylights/?p=1732" title="City Lights">Ed Kemmick</a> for this one. He pointed me to <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/11/BAGO8JSQF61.DTL&hw=testicle&sn=001&sc=1000">a story</a> about a bicyclist trip through Montana and going to the testicle festival in Ryegate. I won't go into the difference in taste of calf "oysters" and bull "oysters" like the writer does but I will quote his…
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Cows Have Accents?
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401843&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490" title="WTF?">Cows with regional accents? Pull the udder one</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>They have one word in their vocabulary and it's a single syllable at that.<br />n<br />nBut farmers claim cows appear to 'moo' in regional accents, despite their limited conversational skills.<br />n<br />nHerds in the West Country have been heard lowing with a distinctive Somerset…
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Sun
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/rising08242006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/rising08242006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun coming up on another dry, dusty, brown day. Enthusiasm is indeed lacking. Taken 8/24/2006.</center>
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Dry and Brown
We gathered the replacement heifers today to preg check them on Saturday. I wanted to get them in early enough so I wouldn't be rushing. I though I would have no hired hand but now I do so it could have waited but what the hell, stick with your plans. Usually I like to get…