Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Damn The Bad Luck

    I'm not a charity, I don't think, and I'm way to far away, but I would sure love to have a crack at this.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/10/news/state/55-books.txt">Woman giving away 35K books</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>BUTTE — A local woman is leaving town and offering her collection of 35,000 books free to any charity willing to haul them…

  • Plums

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/plums07072006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/plums07072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Something I haven't seen for a few years now, wild plums. The springs have been so cool that they normally freeze out every year. This year they didn't but I thought the blight got most of them. I see it didn't since I found…

  • Running of The Idiots

    <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060707/us_nm/life_bullrun_dc">American paralyzed at Pamplona bull festival</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A New York man was paralyzed below the waist while dodging young bulls with other revelers in the bullring at Spain's San Fermin Festival in Pamplona on Friday, festival organizers said.<br />n<br />nThe 31-year-old, named by hospital authorities as Ray Ducharn, was undergoing surgery after being taken…

  • Canadian BSE and US Trade

    <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/06072006/6/n-canada-canada-cows-complicate-seoul-beef-trade-source.html">Canada cows complicate US, Seoul beef trade: source</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea has told the Bush administration it will not resume beef trade until U.S. slaughterhouses segregate Canadian beef products, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.<br />n<br />nSouth Korea closed its borders to U.S. beef in December 2003 after the first U.S.…

  • Trailing Yearlings

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/yearlings06292006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/yearlings06292006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We moved Yearlings to a different pasture the other day and here they are, strung out, tailing along the road. Why they felt the need to be scattered out over a mile long is beyond me but they got where they belonged. Taken 6/29/2006.</center>

  • Canadian BSE

    I have not commented on the latest <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/05/news/state/65-mad-cow.txt">cow with <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> in Canada</a> because testing caught it and it was an older cow born before the 1997 feed ban. In a way the whole <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> thing has become a non issue to the public and with other things going…

  • Hay Loss

    After I had finished haying I turned in my production numbers to the Insurance agent for our crop production records. I never gave much thought to the situation. I had other things I was doing. Yesterday an Insurance adjuster came out to settle with me on the hay loss.<br />n<br />nI had enough of a…

  • Sunrise

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise07042006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise07042006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a><center><br />n<br />n<center>Sunrise on the Fourth of July. It was a great natural display on such an auspicious day. Taken 7/4/2006.</center>

  • Who’s He Trying to Fool.

    Gov. Brian Schweitzer is trying to pass the buck yet again but this time I don't think it's going to work.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/05/news/state/38-water-rights.txt">Schweitzer proposes suspending water-rights fee</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> said Wednesday that he wants to repeal the so-called "water tax" and issue refunds to those who have paid it in sums…

  • Fireworks

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/fireworks07042006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/fireworks07042006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/firework07042006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/firework07042006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A sample of our own personal fireworks display at the ranch. Taken 7/4/2006.</center>

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