Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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One of my favorite new reads every day is <a href="http://gatesofthemountains.blogs.com/weblog/">Gates of the Mountains</a> so I was very dismayed this morning when I read <a href="http://gatesofthemountains.blogs.com/weblog/2004/04/dear_neighbor.html">this</a>. I wish to publicly express my support for my new neighbors Autumn and Anothony in thier struggles they have been having in our great state. Between the <a href="http://gatesofthemountains.blogs.com/weblog/2004/03/why_here.html">burglary</a>…
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Hard Decisions Update
Just a quick update. I had mentioned I was shipping some cows and holding some back, well I decided different yesterday afternoon. It came to my attention that PAYS was selling some bred cows at todays sale and I figured it was a good opportunity to catch the right buyers in the stands and shipped…
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Experts Advice
Now maybe I'm beating a dead horse about this drought but it is very integral part of my life right now. I had mentioned earlier that a <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000306.html">"panel of experts"</a> was going to be meeting to tell people what to do about the drought. Well I see the Gazette has an <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/13/build/state/50-avoid-drought.inc">article about…
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Hard Decisions
One thing I really hate about the continued drought is the decisions it requires and when it requires them. I just finished kicking the pairs out in the hills today. Normally I would kick out everything that has yet to calve also and just keep the dries and stuff that lost calves in. The dries…
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Life Savings
I heard about <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040412/ap_on_re_us/big_gamble">this story</a> today and couldn't believe it. To start with this loonie bets his life savings on one spin of the wheel. This is what I would call stupid. I know he won but that is beside the point. How many idiots out there in the world are going to try…
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Where’s The Beef
I can remember the commercials for Wendys a long time ago where the advertising slogan was, where's the beef. Today's advertising slogan is beef, it's whats for dinner. In <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/12/build/world/70-cubans.inc">Cuba </a>though it is the first slogan, not the second, that prevails on that island.<br />n<br />n<i>In communist Cuba, only the state is allowed to…
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Grammarians
Many. many moons ago Ed over at City Lights had a entry on <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/citylights/index.php?m=200401#228">grammer and punctuation</a>. Well now he has some <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040330/od_uk_nm/oukoe_punctuation">help from the other side of the pond</a>. boy a person is really going to have to watch his usage of the english language around here with all these people keeping an…
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Blog Space
A while ago David had a post about <a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/archives/001197.html">Blogging Space</a> and while it has taken a while I have responded in kind.<br />n<!–more–><br />n<img src="http://nowherethoughts.net/pics/desk.jpg"><br />n<br />nI looked at his space and thought how crowded I would feel if I could not look out upon the world while I am at the computer so…
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Momentous Day
Today is a special day in my world. A little background information. I started the movable type portion of my blog on Dec 17, 2003. At that time I was all ready feeding cows and was up and going every day to feed. This morning for the first time since then I was able to…
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BSE Testing
As usual, here is something in the news that makes no sense to me. <a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/hot/bse/news/apr0904bse.html"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> won't let firm test its cattle for <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym></a>. A private company wants to set up its own lab and do a rapid…