Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Drought News
I see <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=498002004">here</a> that the drought in the western US and Montana in particular is making not only national, but international news. Pretty sad when the drought is so bad that the international press is picking up on it.<br />n<br />n<b>Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence,…
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Brandings
Well we took the boyz of summer out to the yearlings today so that they can have cute little babies next spring. Usually I try to put them out on the 1st of May but I had to go over to one of the neighbors and help them brand. They help me so I help…
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Steel
I know exactly how <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/05/02/build/business/30-steel-trap.inc">these contractors</a> feel. I went to town the other day and bought 200 steel posts for maintainece on my fences around the place. The guy told me I was awful lucky, and these were only $2.40 a post. They only had around 1000 left in stock and they had ordered…
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Prisoners
This whole thing about the <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/ips/glantz.php?articleid=2454">Iraqi prisoners</a> being mistreated is unbelievable to me. This was just a tragedy in our relations with the Arab world and it has been brought on by the acts of a few people. Now the claim is that the soldiers that did this <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040430/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq_prisoner_abuse">didn't know any better</a> because…
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Inflation
I found <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0430/p03s01-usec.html">this article</a> very interesting. Complaining about the price of food going up. I will admit the price of some commodities have gone up, particularly beef and other meats, but what is the problem with that. Our prices to produce the product has been going up for years and the price we receive…
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Dollar
Here we go again. People don't use the dollar coin enough so let's <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040429/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/dollar_coin">change it</a>. I personally am real tired of this constant flipping and flopping on the dollar coin. If they want the dollar coin to be widely used they need to phase out the dollar bill. That is the only way people…
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Moving Cows
We moved the cows and calves that we branded on Saturday to the high country this morning. I was really hoping that we would get wet. No such luck. Found the three pairs that we missed when we branded. We did miss them in the pasture somewhere so we cut them out and will brand…
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ATM Follies
I want an ATM like <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/britain_banking_offbeat">this one</a> in my town. Double your money and the bank says its ok. Come to think about it I wish my bank was that nice period. These days the banks milk you for every penny your worth.<br />n<br />n<b>A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,…
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Violence
There was an incident in my daughter's school of <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/27/build/nation/40-girlviolence.inc">girls perpetrating extreme violence on each other</a> kind of similar to the one in this story. The fight was over a boy, I bet he feels important that girls are fighting over him, and the one girl landed in the hospital and is still having…
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Gender Selection
Having a baby is really going high tech now. You, for a price (I wonder if insurance covers this), can <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/Living/gender_selection_040426-1.html">chose the sex of your baby</a> prior to fertilization of the egg with reasonable expectations of success. I don't know what to think of this. It kind of reduces the element of surprise. With…