Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Busy, Busy
Busy, Busy, Busy. Busy getting spring work done. It's finally getting dry enough to farm a little so I am trying to get some of that done. I might have been able to get some done earlier but everything I want to plant this year, around 200 acres, has alfalfa with it and you want…
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Grab For That Federal Money
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/27/news/state/30-bonds.txt">Counties, cities seek wind bonds</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>More than 30 Montana cities and counties filed applications Wednesday for interest-free federal financing for wind energy projects, with Yellowstone and Cascade county commissioners coming to Washington to submit theirs and to lobby on rural issues.</blockquote><br />n<br />nGrab for those interest free financing whether you have the capability…
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Nylon
<center><b>FROM THE PHOTO ARCHIVES </b><br />nNew not previously published</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/nylon01062006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/nylon01062006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Nylon looking for some feed on a nice winter day. Taken 1/6/2006.</center>
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Beef News
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=axd6YYeYJ8DI&refer=asia">South Korea to Resume U.S. Beef Imports as Agreed</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>South Korea, which was the third- biggest buyer of U.S. beef in 2003, will resume imports from the U.S. after confirming a cow infected with mad-cow disease in Alabama was born before feed restrictions were imposed.<br />n<br />nSouth Korean veterinarians confirmed the cow was…
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Excuse Me?
If Sen Burns has not done anything wrong, and was not influenced by Abramoff, and has not been contacted by the Justice Department in connection with the Abramoff scandal, why is he <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/26/news/state/40-burns-lawyer.txt">hiring a lawyer</a> that specializes in "white-collar crime, the defense of government enforcement actions, political and congressional investigations, corporate internal investigations and…
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Coming Out
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/breaking04192006?full=1'><img width='480' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/breaking04192006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun breaking out from behind the clouds. Taken 4/19/2006.</center>
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This Works Great For Me
<a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-04-24T210938Z_01_N24211565_RTRUKOC_0_US-COFFEE.xml&rpc=22">Drinking lots of coffee doesn't harm heart -study</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Go ahead and have that second cup of coffee — or third, or fourth. A study published on Monday shows heavy, long-term coffee drinking does not raise the risk of heart disease for most people.</blockquote><br />n<br />nWell, this is a pretty good deal for me.…
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Weather
Typical Montana weather. Saturday was a nice, warm, beautiful day. Air was clear, birds were singing, just a spectacular day.<br />n<br />n<center><div class="serendipity_imageComment_center" style="width: 188px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/guard04222006?full=1'><img width='188' height='250' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/guard04222006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Biscuit guarding the flower bed on a beautiful warm day. Taken 4/22/2006.</div></div></center><br />n<br />nThen Sunday rolled in. Cold, light snow, low…
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Question Answered
I have been wondering what "Baaxuwuaashe" meant ever since the signs went up last fall near Crow Agency. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/24/news/state/30-signs.txt">Now I know</a>, translated from the Crow language it means flour mill and it refers to the Government operated flour mill that was built there in the very early 20th century. <br />n<br />nMany of the…
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Disgusting
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/23/AR2006042300870.html">Burns May Be Bouncing Back</a> (Washigton Post story free registration required)<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Polls here suggest that Burns, 71, a three-term incumbent who has been targeted by the Democrats as one of the most beatable Republicans in the Senate, may be bouncing back from the pounding he took late last year after the publication of…