Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Be Afraid
I've always jokingly told My Darling Wife the only way she is going to git rid of me is to shoot me. HA, ha, ha, that is until I saw this today.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/25/news/state/65-admit.txt" title="Be Afraid">Woman admits to killing husband</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A woman who said her husband told her during a drunken argument that…
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The Real Test is Coming
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=62888" >U.S. Beef Supply About To Improve In Japan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>According to the U.S. Meat Export Federation, the first ocean cargos of U.S. beef are about to arrive in Japan, after initial air shipments sold out in less than a day.<br />n<br />nAlthough U.S. beef is still in short supply, sea shipments should ease…
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Animal ID Update
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=62914" title="Who Are These People?">Livestock Industry Panel Favors US Animal ID System</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Livestock and meat industry experts said Wednesday they generally were in favor of having a national animal identification program for disease control, but articulated concerns with the current, developing program.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo industry leaders are all for animal ID, but are…
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Hawk
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/fly08162006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/fly08162006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The hawk taking off from his perch. Taken 8/16/2006. </center>
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Last Laugh
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Implosion
It sure looks to me like Senator Burns is trying to lose this election.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082201082.html" title="Free Registration Required">Comments Haunt Another Senator</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a moment of unusual candor for a veteran senator fighting for his political life, Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) offered this blunt self-assessment a few months ago: "I can self-destruct in one…
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Case Number Eight
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/health/national/2006/08/23/mad-cow060-823.html" title="Case Number Eight">Canada reports new case of mad cow disease</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed on Wednesday a new case of mad cow disease in Alberta.<br />n<br />nIt is Canada's fifth case in 2006 and the eighth since 2003, when the disease was first found in this country, officials said.</blockquote><br />n<br…
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Fine Looking Critter
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/pair08142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/pair08142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This particular pair kept hiding out on me as I was cleaning out the Williams place. The only proof I had she existed was this picture. I finally found here yesterday and got her out. Damn fine calf the old girl is raising. Taken…
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Picking a Fight
Let's try this again, almost done and I lost the whole thing. <br />n<br />nI swear My Darling Wife just loves to pick a fight sometimes. School hasn't even started yet and she is fighting with them. It could get interesting.<br />n<br />nThe High School mailed out the enrollment forms a couple of weeks ago…
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New Hired Hand
Just as I suspected, the first guy I talked to did not want the job so I offered it to the next guy. His references checked out so there was no reason not to offer it to him. I wasn't as impressed with him as with the first guy but who knows, he might surprise…