Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Storm Update

    Well I was real lucky. Around the houses here there was some damage from the monster hailstones that fell but over where all the cattle and the farm ground is I couldn't find any damage at all. I don't think it hailed over there. It is wet and going to slow haying down but that's…

  • Sunrise

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sun06122006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sun06122006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun coming up on another day. I am not really looking forward to it today since I will be out looking at storm damage. 6/12/2006.</center>

  • Do Something Then

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/14/news/state/23-school-funding.txt">Schweitzer: Taxpayers tired of school funding litigation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Most Montanans are tired of litigation over school funding, <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> said Wednesday in response to the latest court filing on the issue by the education interests that sued the state four years ago.<br />n<br />n"There are some that would like education dollars to…

  • Hail Storm

    <center><img width='640' height='418' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hail06142006.jpg' alt='' /></center><br />n<br />n<center>I don't know how much more haying I will be doing. This is a sample of some of the hail that hit here a little while ago. Taken 6/14/2006.</center>

  • Busy Bee

    <img width='700' height='598' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.k3smom.com/d/460-1/rosebee.jpg' alt='' /><br />n<br />nI usually post pictures taken by myself or occasionally My Darling Wife but this time I post a picture taken by My Little Photographer. My youngest girl has quite an eye for taking pictures and she gets some interesting ones at time. Different than I would…

  • Strange Sight

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/strange06122006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/strange06122006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Finally was able to bale again after the big storm. These big bales laying out in the field are a really strange sight to me when I am used to seeing small ones. It takes some getting used to. Otherwise the new baler is working…

  • Interesting

    A few Headlines from today's Billings Gazette:<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/13/news/state/35-crime.txt">Violent crime numbers dip in Montana</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/13/news/local/65-sex-abuse.txt">Man accused of felony sex abuse</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/13/news/local/70-wife-biting.txt">Man charged with biting wife</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/13/news/local/75-assault.txt">Man charged with assault on pregnant girlfriend</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/06/13/news/local/80-homicide.txt">Woman arraigned in homicide</a><br />n<br />nI always find dichotomies like this amusung. In the…

  • The Enemy

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/enemy06072006?full=1'><img width='480' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/enemy06072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This time of year any spare time I get goes to fighting "The Enemy." It might be hard to see, which makes it even harder to fight, but that is knapweed growing. Part of the place has a lot of it on it. I spend…

  • Mystery

    <a href="http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/06/11/ap2807633.html">U.S. Mad Cow Cases Are Mysterious Strain</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Two cases of mad cow disease in Texas and Alabama seem to have resulted from a mysterious strain that could appear spontaneously in cattle, researchers say.<br />n<br />nGovernment officials are trying to play down differences between the two U.S. cases and the mad cow epidemic that…

  • Smell So Sweet

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/rose06072006?full=1'><img width='427' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/rose06072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Just another shot of a wild rose bush. I've always liked the way they look and smell. I used to have a real pretty fence full of them at the windmill but some hired man didn't like them and sprayed them out with chemicals one…

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