Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Eating
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/eating01082007?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/eating01082007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows eating their hay as the sun comes up in the morning. Taken 1/8/2008. </center>
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Has To Get Better
Without getting into to many details, 2008 has to get better. Five flat tires in five days feeding taxes anybodies sanity. <br />n<br />nThen I have had a small out break of <a href="http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/21202.htm" title="damn">coccidiosis</a> in my calves for some reason. Usually there has to be a stressor for this to happen and I have…
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Carbon Offsets
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/business/09offsets.html?em&ex=1200027600&en=6f039bee328853cb&ei=5087" title="imagine">F.T.C. Asks if Carbon-Offset Money Is Well Spent</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million last year on carbon offset credits toward tree planting, wind farms, solar plants and other projects to balance the emissions created by, say, using a laptop computer or flying on a jet.<br…
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Cavvy
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/horses/horses01062007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/horses/horses01062007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cavvy enjoying their hay. Taken 1/6/2008.</center>
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What Are You Doing Here
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=4108778&page=1">Looking at this</a> from the other side, couldn't the wife also ask her husband ,"What are you doing here?"<br />n<br />n<strong>Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels. Voltaire</strong>
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Sitting
I guess I'm not the only one that thinks <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> needs to get off his duff and <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/01/10/news/state/24-coalleases.txt">do something with the Otter Creek coal tracts</a>. So, will he do something about it? Maybe but I kind of doubt it.<br />n<br />n<strong>Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer</strong>
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Consequences
Sometimes the policies that the US fosters and the public condones has unintended consequences.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://stri.org/english/about_stri/headline_news/news/article.php?id=736" title="interesting">Corn… fuel… fire!<br />nU.S. corn subsidies promote Amazon de forestation</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Amazon deforestation and fires are being aggravated by US farm subsidies, claims STRI’s staff scientist William Laurance.<br />n <br />n According to Laurance, whose findings are reported…
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Enjoying
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/chickens01042008?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/chickens01042008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The chickens enjoying the warm sun and dry ground on the cement pad. They are really laying now. We are getting over a dozen eggs a day. Now to try to figure out what to do with all the eggs.…
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Argentina
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=188159">U.S. Cattlemen To Congress: Fix <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>’s Argentina Mess</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote><acronym title="United States Cattleman's Association">USCA</acronym> (Jan. 7, 2008) – Exactly one year ago this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by…
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Socks
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/cats/socks01042008?full=1'><img width="427" height="640" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/socks01042008.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Socks coming to get some pets from me. I haven't seen him in quite a while. He is getting pretty old for a barn cat. Fourteen years or so. I'd better be looking for some younger ones. Taken 1/4/2008.</center>