Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Cowboys
Let me tell you something about the word cowboy. It derives obviously from the words cow and boy. Seems real obvious to the most casual observer. So what I would like to know is why when I hire a "cowboy" they think all they need to know about is horses? A horse is a tool…
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Rocket
Now I find <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/08/build/nation/45-private-rocket.inc">this</a> exciting. <br />n<br />n<i>The government announced Wednesday that it has issued the first license for a manned suborbital rocket, a step toward opening space flight to private individuals for the first time.</i><br />n<br />nIf I have one dream in my life it is to go beyond the borders of our…
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Cell Phones
One of those things in life that I find very irritating is those people that run around with a cell phone permanently attached to their ear. Out here at the ranch I don't have to worry about it since I don't get cell phone coverage, which sends some people out here into fits of hysterics…
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Corporate Taxes
Maybe someday I will be smart enough to figure our government out. I heard last evening about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/06/business/06tax.html?ex=1081828800&en=afb6d5da8edbd12b&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE">2/3 of companies in US owe no taxes</a>. These companies managed to pay no taxes while the economy was "booming" from 1996 to 2000. <br />n<br />n<i>"there's no question that we have all sorts of complicated provisions…
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Moving Cows
Well I quit feeding hay to all the cows and have commenced "kicking them out into the hills." Now I know the whole place has hills on it but its just an expression I use when I kick them out of winter pasture onto fresh spring pasture. With the warm weather and what moisture there…
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Sheep Run
Since 1989, Reedpoint has been staging the <a href="http://visitmt.com/categories/moreinfo.asp?IDRRecordID=8886&SiteID=1">Running of the Sheep</a> on Labor Day Weekend. I have never personally been to it but I have been told it is a fun event to attend. I now see that Te Kuiti, a town in New Zealand, has picked up on this and has enacted its…
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Drought Forum
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/04/build/business/65-droughtforum.inc">MSU-B sets drought forum</a>. I guess I just don't get this. If a farmer or rancher hasn't figured out over the past 6 years of drought how to deal with the situation they need a lot more help than a simple forum. I was hoping for a good year but hope of that is…
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Time
I see by the calendar it is time for the yearly offering to the Gods Lleu and Khronos. This offering is made by us mere mortals setting ahead our clocks an hour in the spring. What good this does I have no concept. I have had many a person inform me that it gives an…
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Anger Management
Something just doesn't seem right here. <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37873">A high school assembly on anger management breaks out in violence</a>. We are into the question I have been asking for years now. Are children and adults more violent today then they were years ago or do incidents like this just get reported more often today? I have…
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The Fool Is Me
In a way today was a really bad day. I hoped and prayed that it would rain or snow but to no avail. Dry as a bone. Yesterday both <a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/archives/001182.html">David</a> and <a href="http://gatesofthemountains.blogs.com/weblog/2004/04/its_springtime_.html">Anthony</a> were commenting that the snow was a great April Fools joke. I wish it would have made a fool of me,…