Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Walking
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/walk08112005.JPG'><img width='220' height='109' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/walk08112005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a>My Darling Wife takes the boy on a mile and a half to two mile walk at least 5 days a week. It helps to keep him in shape and active. Lately he has taken to climbing the hills and jumping on the rocks during the…
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Barber Montana
We took a short trip up towards Harlowton yesterday to see My Darling Wife's father and managed to get some pictures. I will post more later but I'll start by sharing this one I took.<br />n<br />n <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/1138-Barber-Montana.html#extended">Continue reading "Barber Montana"</a>
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Drought News
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/12/build/state/30-drought.inc">Is Montana in drought? Hard to say</a><br />n<br />nThere is an easy answer to this question, long term the State is still in a drought. That's not hard to say at all. The article talks about the rains drying up but July is a fairly dry month normally and August is our driest month…
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Reminder
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/microsoft_security_dc">Microsoft sees 3 'critical' Windows security flaws</a><br />n<br />nJust a reminder to patch that flawed piece of software called Windows. The safety and security of your computer is at risk.<br />n<br />nNOTE: Since I use Linux on my computer this doesn't concern me.<br />n<br />n<b>Security gives way to conspiracy. William Shakespeare</b>
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Damn
The state was out today to perform it's annual inspection of the cattle scale. The inspection is required to sell cattle across it. <br />n<br />nIT FAILED!!!!<br />n<br />nIt is a electronic scale and one of the load cells appears to be out. Any money the insurance saved me on the tractor I will now…
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I Have An Out
My Darling wife always gets annoyed with me because I don't hear her. She has even made me get my hearing tested to see if I had a problem of some kind, I didn't. The doctor said some people just have a hard time hearing certain sounds and that must be my problem.<br />n<br />nI…
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Strange Occurrence
Yesterday morning we went out riding to move some cows around to different water to scatter them around the pastures better. No big deal just some stuff that needed done. By coincidence we rode by some of our yearlings in another pasture and we happened to notice one of them was just coming down with…
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UPS Strikes again.
We went to visit his uncle in the hospital we had to wait to visit because he was having a test done. Not the uncle's fault but just the way was going. Then after we were done visiting we turned turned the cell back on and had messages from the oldest. The stupid UPS driver…
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Very, Very Interesting
Is the Federal government striking back at Montana? <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/10/build/state/30-usda-group.inc">Some think so</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Rick Parks, an investigator for the Government Accountability Project, a private organization that represents "whistle-blowers," said he has been working the past two years with small, federally inspected plants in the state that believe they have been targeted or held to higher…
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Opinion
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/08/08/build/wyoming/71-high-rancher-prices.inc">This</a> is only true if you buy cows instead of raise your own and you believe the drought is over. I don't mind the higher prices since I raise my own replacements instead of buying them. I get a better quality product that way.<br />n<br />nI could run 25% more cows than I am…