Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Trouble

    I jinxed myself. I stated the other night that <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000201.html">calving heifers was going well</a>. So what happened yesterday morning. A heifer has a monster, breech calf that I am unable to do anything with. Most of the time I can handle a breech calf but this monster was just too big. Luckily it froze…

  • Voting

    Now <a href="http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-bovine-voters,0,3349793.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines">this</a> sounds like a plan. The only thing I would have to make sure of is that I filled in the ballots for them. They would probable vote for the green party since they always like to chase green grass.<br />n<br />n<b>Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops…

  • Mud

    No surprises here. After 2 warm days and 1 warm night that included 6 hours of rain it is officially muddy around here. What makes it worse is that it is also icy and snowy along with the mud. Talk about miserable. Not only for me and mine but for the critters that have to…

  • Development

    I see Secretary of Interior Gale Norton has the answer to everybodys concerns about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/19/build/state/25-prbasin.inc">coal bed methane production</a>.<br />n<br />n<i>As for coalbed methane, Norton said cooperation between companies and surface landowners will be needed to limit the effects of development. Some steps might include "common sense things" like reclaiming the land, putting pipelines beneath…

  • Gourmet Food

    You might not want to read this before you eat <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=M22NQ5KKGEE4ICRBAEKSFEY?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=4384512">Rats on Menu as Bird Flu Leaves Fowl Aftertaste</a>. <br />n<br />n<i>"I've got a constant stream of customers," Van Vath, a rat butcher in the western Cambodian town of Battambang, told Wednesday's edition of Cambodge Soir.</i><br />n<br />nA rat butcher, this is more than…

  • Price Manipulation

    This is a big suprise to me. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/18/build/nation/50-beefsettlement.inc">$1.28B awarded to cattlemen in price manipulation lawsuit</a>. I assumed the meat packers would have deep enough pockets to buy the verdict they wanted. I know awful cynical of me but that's the way our justice system appears to work most of the time.<br />n<!–more–><br />nThe whole…

  • Hunting

    I can't decide if this is good or bad. In West Virginia there is now going to be a <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040216-110246-9211r.htm">college course on hunting</a>. I keep reading articles about stupid college courses and this might be considered one of them but it also shows to me how removed the urban population of the US is…

  • Bragging Rights

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  • Winning

    One of the goals of terrorism is to make people so scared they can't function normally. Well according to <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1148476,00.html">this article</a> they might be accomplishing there goal. Now maybe my thought process on this subject is wrong, but isn't the unprecedented amount of money spent on security meant to protect the athletes from this…

  • Think

    <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1955777,00.html">This</a> is a perfect example of why you should think before you act. Now I feel sorry for this guys family but when are people going to learn that, for the most part, animals are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. This is also a perfect example of stopping, taking a breath, and…

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