Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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To Market
<center><div class="serendipity_imageComment_center" style="width: 640px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/gather05082006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/gather05082006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Gathering the last of the pairs and the drys. The drys are going to market. There are fewer than normal for me so it was a pretty good year last year with an easy calving season. Taken 5/8/2006.</div></div></center><br />n<br />nAbout a month…
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Blossoms
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/apple05072006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/apple05072006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Our lone apple tree is getting it's blossoms for the year. Sure are pretty. Taken 5/7/2006.</center>
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For The Person Who Has Everything
For sale on ebay.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4455060285#ebayphotohosting">Titan 1 ICBM Missile Base – Located in Washington State</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Located about 1 1/2 hrs from Spokane, 4 hrs. from Seattle, 5 hrs. from Portland.<br />n<br />n360 Degree Views. Private water system. High Power lines on sight.<br />n<br />nHardened buildings built to withstand One megaton nuclear blast within…
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Cowboys Who Don’t Know How To Ride
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0509/p01s02-woap.html">Australian cowboys learn once again how to ride a horse</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>What sort of self-respecting cowboy doesn't know how to ride a horse?<br />n<br />nApparently, the Australian kind. Many jackaroos and stockmen on the country's huge cattle ranches, or stations, have grown accustomed since the 1960s to rounding up herds with helicopters, motorbikes, and…
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Hanging Around
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/hanging05062006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/hanging05062006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Nine in the morning and the pairs are hanging around water contentedly chewing their cud. That means there is plenty of grass and water to keep them happy. What a nice sight. Taken 5/6/2006.</center>
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Will It Ever Happen?
<a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/business/20060507TDY01005.htm"> Pressure grows to lift U.S. beef ban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Calls from government officials to resume beef imports from the United States have been growing as Tokyo and Washington are set to hold negotiations on the issue later this month, with many officials advocating an end to the ban even before the safety of U.S.…
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Parent Should Not Be Kids Buddies
I always here people say they are their kids best friend and are proud of that. Look at what that kind of thinking brings around.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060506/ap_on_fe_st/pot_as_reward">Boy Does Homework, Smokes Pot With Mom</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 13-year-old boy told police his mother required him to do his homework first thing when he got off the…
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I Provide The Camera
I had quite a few very complimentary comments about my <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1746-Looking-East.html">photo yesterday</a> and wish to thank everybody for them. I would like to point out that I only provide the camera, God provides the settings that I take pictures of and the praise for the photos really goes to him, I'm just lucky enough…
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Man of This Land My A**
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/05/07/news/state/30-rural.txt">'Man of this land' wants to fight for rural America</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>As Conrad Burns hurtles along U.S. 87 in a Chevy Silverado truck at 80 mph, he makes a grand gesture toward the miles of unbroken prairie south of here.<br />n<br />n"I'm a man of this land," says the three-term U.S. senator from Montana.…