Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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The Boyz
Well, the Boyz of Summer (aka bulls) got to go to the hills and do their duty to bovine kind yesterday. Usually thet are a little more anxious to go meet the ladies than they were yesterday. Normally it is a run to keep up with them on the way out but this time we…
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Prices
If <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040602/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc">this</a> keeps up I might be forced back to using a horse and buggy instead of a vehicle. <br />n<br />nThinking about it, there is an example given in economics a lot about the rise of the automobile driving the buggy whip manufacturers out of buisness, and is given as an example of…
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Helping
Brandings abound. We helped a neighbor brand Saturday and Monday, the same neighbor, and today I have another branding at a different neighbors. I get a lot of help from my neighbors at my branding so I have to help them in return. What I don't quite get is at these brandings I just mentioned,…
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Apology
This seems like such a wimpy way to deal with a personal issue. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/30/build/nation/60-apology-line.inc">Apology hot line offers solace to troubled callers</a>. I have discovered in my life that making an apology is hard, I will agree, but it is the right thing to do and more people need to get into the habit of…
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Murders
I sure would like to know what is going on around Hardin and the Crow Reservation? I see in the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/28/build/local/20-stabbing.inc">paper this morning</a> that a High school kid was stabbed at a party on the Crow Reservation. Earlier this year in Febuary a man was <a Href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2004/02/10/build/state/20-hardinmurder.inc">beaten to death</a> by Native Americans in Hardin.…
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New Pictures
<a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/">David</a> had to <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000388.html">remind me</a> again about taking pictures. I truly never think about taking pictures so I never carry my camera along with me. It used to be cameras were big and bulky and you couldn't but with the new digital cameras they are getting small enough to pack around in your…
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Fed Ex
The battle with fed-ex has begun again. I was expecting a package and checked the tracking today and they say they "cannot locate the recipient." I spent 1 hour on the phone getting the run araound and I don't know if it did any good. To vent my frustration I sent the following e-mail to…
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Open Container
I see the <a href="http://www.montanaforum.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=145&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0">public favors a ban on open containers in Montana</a>, will the legislature listen? I don't know, the quote from Jim Shockley is telling.<br />n<br />n<i>â
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Moving Cattle
We moved some more cattle to the high country yesterday. The steer calves were still walking pretty tender after branding but they made it up there. It isn't a real long trip. To make it to the water hole we only had to drive them 6 miles or so. I need to get some water…
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Letter
I heard something this morning on the radio and wanted to e-mail the person and chat with them about what they said. I went to there website and lo and behold every time I try to e-mail them it gets kicked back at me. Guess they don't want to hear from there loyal listeners. I…