Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Branding Update
WE WON! Just got in, calves all branded and everything else is done. Now wait for my turn at the hot water. Hopefully I will be able to sleep tonight.<br />n<br />n<b>:I have finished my combat with the sun;And my body, the old animal,Knows nothing more. Wallace Stevens</b>
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Branding Time
Today we brand the big bunch of cattle. It's going to be a long day but we will win. I have been doing odds and ends all week to get ready for it and I haven't been sleeping well and my backs been hurting. Subconscious reactions to the stress of branding I know but it's…
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Interesting
I don't know anything about the Fischer-Tropsch technology which produces <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/21/build/state/35-coal-oil.inc">oil from coal</a>, but it sounds too good to be true.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Schweitzer envisions a plant where the state-owned Otter Creek coal reserves are located in Powder River County. It would cost $2.5 billion to build a private project over two years with 5,000…
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Black and White
<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 220px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cabin05182005.JPG'><img width='220' height='123' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/cabin05182005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Forgotten Dreams</div></div><br />n<br />n<br />n<br />n<br />n<br />n<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 220px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/oldcar05182005.JPG'><img width='220' height='181' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/oldcar05182005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">End of the Line</div></div><br />n<br />n<br />n<br />n<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 220px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/water05182005.JPG'><img width='220' height='165' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/water05182005.serendipityThumb.JPG' alt=''…
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CBM Development
I have talked before about being opposed to the Coal Bed Methane (CBM) development that is proposed in my area of the state. There has always been one thing that has made me real uneasy about opposing such development and has kept me from being more vocal about the issue. By opposing CBM development I…
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God’s Country
I truly believe that I reside in God's Country. Continue on if you want to see what I mean. <a class="block_level" href="http://www.sarpysam.com/archives/959-Gods-Country.html#extended">Continue reading "God's Country"</a>
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Filibuster
Right or wrong the filibuster has been part of the Senate tradition from the start of this country. Efforts <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/05/19/build/state/50-filibuster-issue.inc">to do away with this option</a> when it comes to Judicial nominees are wrong. The Republicans need to remember what goes around, comes around. One of these days they will be the minority party again…
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Very Interesting
I think I understand now.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Dick Dasen Sr. said he never paid for sex and he was motivated only by altruism when he gave money to women who had none. Having sex with them was unrelated, he said.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo giving women money and getting sexual favors isn't prostitution. Unique strategy is all I…
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Parents Gone Wild II
Another example of <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/953-Parents-Gone-Wild.html">Parents Gone Wild </a> has come to my attention where a <a href="http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1035925&tw=wn_wire_story">father beat a softball coach</a> with a bat for suspending his daughter from the team. It's got to be scary to be a coach anymore with such lunatic parents. I guess sportsmanship and fair play are antiquated customs anymore.<br…
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The Uncommon Rascal Fair
The newest edition of <a href="http://montannie.blogspot.com/2005/05/rascal-fair.html" target="_new">Rascal Fair</a> is up over at <a href="http://www.montannie.blogspot.com/" target="_new">Hollywood & Montana</a> (sounds like a street address) and while some people might think such a thing is common, I think Annie did an uncommonly good job. Thanks.<br />n<br />n<b>Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by…