Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Blue Sky
We have blue sky now but that was quite a storm for so early in the winter season. Around a foot of snow here. Electricity was out from Tuesday evening until Wednesday afternoon. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/05/build/local/30-weather_x.inc">Doesn't sound real unusual</a> around the area for this storm but it was a trial.<br />n<br />nI let the replacment heifer…
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Snow?
ZONE FORECAST PRODUCT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA<br />nNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT<br />n340 AM MDT TUE OCT 4 2005<br />nSPOT TEMPERATURES AND PROBABILITIES OF MEASURABLE PRECIPITATION<br />nARE FOR TODAY…TONIGHT…AND WEDNESDAY.<br />nMTZ057-050330-<br />nNORTHERN BIG HORN-<br />nINCLUDING THE CITIES OF…HARDIN…CROW AGENCY<br />n340 AM MDT TUE OCT 4 2005<br />n…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON…
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Shipping Pictures
My Darling wife managed to get a few pictures of shipping. I thought I would share a few.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/heifers09302005'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/heifers09302005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/gray09282005'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/gray09282005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/whome09302005'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/whome09302005.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/quills09302005'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5'…
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Pollute Away
The Government <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/01/build/state/46-mercury-emmisions.inc">wouldn't want to protect the health and welfare</a> of Montanan's young and old with available technology now would it? That must not be its job I guess.<br />n<br />n<b>God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from…
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In The Hills
We worked all the cows today and kicked them back out in the hills. Get them as far away from the corral as I can. Out of sight, out of mind.<br />n<br />nCan anyone out there say blast furnace. Man, two days in a row of extremely hot temperatures and the wind blowing like mad.…
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Scary
Wouldn't Governor Schweitzer and <a href="http://www.lindeen.net/">his</a> <a href="http://www.testerforsenate.com/">cronies</a> be real surprised if the courts decided their solution to school funding isn't <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/01/build/state/35-teacher-salaries.inc">good enough</a>, since they have yet to come up with one by the court mandated deadline, and take over the job for themselves?<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Recommendations by the panel may go before a special…
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I Don’t Understand
I'm totally baffled by <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/09/30/build/state/42-livestock-drought.inc">this complaint</a>. Isn't this normal government efficiency? I was eligible and applied for this disaster relief from last year and I am still waiting to see if it's going to get here. I wasn't going to start worrying about it for another year or so. That's how long it usually…
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Done
571 pounds on the steers and I contracted them at 575.<br />n521 pounds on the heifers and I contracted them at 525.<br />n<br />nPretty accuarate guess since the contract was written months ago.<br />n<br />nInteresting news from the vet but I can't say anything until the official announcement. Suffice to say I got my cattle…
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Question
Why is it that as a private individual if I risk money in the stock market for retirement and the market takes a turn for the worse, I am out the money and no help is available but the Government risks money in the stock market for retirement and the market takes a turn for…
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Wow
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunset09282005.jpg'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunset09282005.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a>