Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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I’m Confused
I've been hearing about an economic stimulus package, what a name for a plan to give our money back to us, for a little while now. Now we are seeing an actual plan from <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY_STIMULUS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">bothe the House and Senate</a>.<br />n<br />nI'm a little confused by this "economic stimulus plan" and how it is going…
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Moon
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/colors01242008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/colors01242008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The moon setting in an early morning Montana sky. I sure wish I would have had My Darling Wife's good camera for this. It was really beautiful. Taken 1/24/2008.</center>
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Frost
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/frost01142008?full=1'><img width="427" height="640" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/frost01142008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The frost on a fence rail before our latest batch of snow. The background would be all white now. Taken 1/14/2008. </center>
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Wintry
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/heifers01202008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/heifers01202008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Two year old heifers enjoying their hay on a wintry day. Taken 1/20/2008. </center>
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Cows
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows01202008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cows01202008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Cows waiting for some feed during our recent snow. I won't go so far as too say they are tired of winter yet, they love feed being delivered to them, but I think they could do without the wind and…
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Cloned Critters
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/24/news/state/18-clones.txt">FDA allows cloned beef, but many not so sure</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Cloned beef, in the eyes of the Food and Drug Administration, tastes the same as that coming from cows made the old-fashioned way, but Billings butcher Gary Pollock still isn't swayed.<br />n<br />nHe thinks the FDA's recent decision allowing cloned meat and dairy products…
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Plowing
If it isn't one thing, it's another. There was so much wind and snow last evening that our road to the highway blew in. Four this morning I fired up the tractor so I could plow to the highway to get my daughter to school. I didn't get my coffee or anything this morning. What…
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Cold
There are things i could talk about today, but the one thing catching my attention is the cold here. It was 15 below yesterday morning and got to a high of 0 and it is 25 below this morning and supposed to get to 25 above today. I somehow really doubt it is going to…
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Advertising
If you have read here long you know that while I am not fond of the beef checkoff, I don't mind it either. Advertising never hurts, unless you advertise like this. Actually I know it's not an advertisement, but it might be mistaken as one. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/3074-Advertising.html#extended">Continue reading "Advertising"</a>
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Patterns
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/patterns01172008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/patterns01172008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The snow and the wind make interesting patterns with the snow. We have been getting slight snow showers and way to much wind for the past few days making life tough. It supposed to keep it up and get really…