Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Yesterday’s Sunrise
<img src="http://nowherethoughts.net/pics/sunrise06032005.jpg"><br />n<br />n<br />n<b>Oh, what a beautiful mornin',<br />nOh, what a beautiful day!<br />nI got a beautiful feelin'<br />nEv'rything's goin' my way. <br />n<br />nOscar Hammerstein</b><br />
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What Our Public Education System Really Teaches
<blockquote>A 10-year-old Atlanta-area boy was forced to kiss and lick his teacher's toes. <br />n<br />nAnd though the teacher, Jody Kilpatrick of Temple Elementary School in Carroll County, has apologized for the incident, a preliminary investigation found no criminal intent since she apparently received no sexual gratification from the physical contact. <br />n<br />nThe child…
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Pests
<img width='110' height='82' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cricket.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' />So far we are lucky and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=811360&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312">this plaque</a> has not gotten any worse around here. We seem to have some every year and I have seen a few this year but no major outbreaks yet. I am less worried about Crickets as I am about grasshoppers.…
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Handout
I see according to <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/1581/">Courtney Lowery</a> the lowered water tables in wells, low spring flows, and extremely dry timber doesn't a drought make. Nope dumb ranchers aren't still dealing with drought affects at all. <br />n<br />n<blockquote>we can't help but wonder if some folks are hanging on to the "drought" designation because if that…
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Border Wars
Might be going to have a regular border war down here in Big Horn County. For those that don't know the Crow Indian Tribe and the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe share a common border along the 107th meridian. It is probably one of the few things the two tribes have in common but a border…
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Terminology
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/02/build/local/35-rains.inc">Ranchers giddy over great spring rains</a><br />n<br />nGiddy huh. I'm not to sure most ranchers I know would be happy to have the adjective giddy applied to them. Just try to imagine some gnarled old time rancher being giddy. The term is right for sure, but the ones I know wouldn't appreciate the term.…
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The Boyz
Today is the magical day we <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/boyz06012005.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/boyz06012005.jpg','popup','width=1020,height=770,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false">round up</a> <acronym title="bulls">The Boyz of Summer</acronym> and give them an escort to <acronym title="cows">The Ladies</acronym> so that they can all get together, have fun, and do their duty by bovine kind.<br />n<br />nAfter we round them up we take them to the corral and…
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Reality Versus Fantasy
Our culture appears to be going through a collision of reality versus fantasy in our legal system. I've mentioned it before and I just come across another example of it.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/29/MNGTTCSVTD10.DTL">Jurors want CSI-quality forensic evidence</a><br />n<br />nYes, the good old boob tube does it to us again. Jurors think that reality should be…
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Farewell
Word is spreading fast that Craig at <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/">mtpolitics</a> is calling it quits. Kind of a sad day if you ask me. He was here in Montana Blogs when I started and has always been a favorite of mine. I have never managed to meet him in person but would like to someday. I can…
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R-CALF
A brief history of R-CALF and the work it does and what it believes in can be found in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/31/build/state/25-rcalf.inc">todays gazette</a>. I've had people ask me about them and this provides some good information.<br />n<br />n<b>Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts…