Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Money To Burn
Boy, it must be nice to have all that money to burn on a facility designed and built by Dr. Temple Grandin.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/05/news/business/45-stock.txt">Facility will handle livestock peacefully</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A new livestock handling facility that will have curved chutes, round pens and other stress-reducing innovations will be built this year at Montana State University's…
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The Cows Have Started
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/firstcalf03042006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/firstcalf03042006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cowcalf03042006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cowcalf03042006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>I have been expecting to see a new baby calf on the cows any day now and it finally happened. Two baby calves in the herd yesterday morning when we fed. I am sure glad to see…
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Sunrise
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunrise03012006?full=1'><img width='640' height='426' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunrise03012006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<b>To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine! No doubt, many of my townsmen have met me returning from…
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Nutrition
<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/261163_veggie01.html?source=mypi">Fruits, vegetables not as nutritious as 50 years ago</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In spite of what Mother taught you about the benefits of eating broccoli, data collected by the U.S. government show that the nutritional content of America's vegetables and fruits has declined during the past 50 years — in some cases dramatically.<br />n<br />nDonald Davis,…
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First Cycle
Today is the last day of the first cycle for the heifers and we made the 75% mark. Three-quarters of them calved out in the first cycle. <br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/mom02132006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/mom02132006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />nPretty damn good if you ask me. I am happy. Most of the last 25 are…
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Febuary Weather
I saw <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/03/03/news/local/40-weather.txt">this story about the weather</a> this morning and the first thing I though to my self was, "why does Lorna Thackeray always do the weather stories for the Gazette?" Every time there is a weather story in the Gazette Lorna is the reporter and I can usually tell you what is going…
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NASA Image
Did you see the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_519.html">NASA image of the day yesterday</a>?<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/moonemily.jpg'><img width='220' height='145' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/moonemily.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<blockquote>This panoramic view of the eye of Hurricane Emily was shot by the crew of the International Space Station while they passed over the southern Gulf of Mexico looking eastward toward the rising…
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Voluntary
Voluntary:<br />n1 : proceeding from the will or from one's own choice or consent<br />n2 : unconstrained by interference : SELF-DETERMINING<br />n3 : done by design or intention : INTENTIONAL (voluntary manslaughter)<br />n4 : of, relating to, subject to, or regulated by the will (voluntary behavior)<br />n5 : having power of free choice<br />n6 :…
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Sleeping Baby
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/sleep02202006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/sleep02202006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a><br />n<br />n<b>Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge</b>
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Why The US is in Trouble
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FREEDOM_POLL?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Study: One in 1,000 know First Amendment</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote> Americans apparently know more about "The Simpsons" than they do about the First Amendment.<br />n<br />nOnly one in four Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of…