Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Strange Boat
<img src="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/buickboat.jpg"><br />n<br />nSomehow I really don't think this is what Buick had in mind for this model. Just shows you what the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2004/02/04/build/nation/65-cubacarboat.inc">quest for freedom</a> will cause a car to do.<br />n<br />n<b>Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr.</b>
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Small Town Life
Recently Craig over at <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/">mtpolitics.net </a> had a very good entry on <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/archives/001135.php">Life in a Small Town</a>. Well, the real world intrudes and gives us an addition to the list. <br />n<br />n32. The first baby in the New Year, is born on the 21st of January.<br />n<br />nOur neighbors daughter recently, you…
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Nap
I wish I knew what it meant when 27 degrees F seems like a nice summer day. I just got in from the barn and I thought it was 50 Degrees out, but it wasn't. A cow had just had a calf and I was sitting there watching it to make sure it got up…
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Relief
Ever since Sunday and the halftime "incedent" I have been laying awake at nights worrying about <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/BackPage/reuters20040203_317.html">this</a>. Boy it will sure let me sleep better at night knowing that I won't be exposed to such a sight on TV during the Summer Olympics.<br />n<br />n<b>Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.…
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New Arrival
The first <u>scheduled</u> calf arrived this morning. I say scheduled since I did have an early one due to the bull wreck but I don't really count that one. The Hired Man was watching them at the time the heifer started calvingand he did a real good job with the situation. I had been a…
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Consumer Confidence High
I know, I talk about <acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym> fairly often and you are probably tired of hearing it but I found this interesting. <a href="http://www.cooknjaes.rutgers.edu/news/release.asp?n=221">Mad Cow has Confidence Stirred, but not Shaken. Any Drop in Beef Consumption Likely to be Short Lived.</a> I was always afraid of a knee jerk reaction by people to…
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Cow Pix
Well I promised a few pictures of the cows. I will not be responsible for quality or the HTML page. It is my first try for both. Didn't have a program for the HTML page so I just winged it with a text editor. <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/cowpix.html">Here</a> they are.<br />n<br />n<b>One ought, every day at least,…
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Outrage
Well, I seen <a href="http://www.drudgereport.com/mattjj.htm">this</a> over at <a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/archives/001269.php">MTpolitics</a> late last night. Now since I did not watch the game, I did't see the incident in question. I sure see by the news this morning though that it has caused quite a furor. Reading all the stories the question has become whether reaviling Janet Jackson's…
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Maternity Ward
Well we brought the 2 year-old heifers home today. My Darling Wife calls them the maternity ward. We only had to trail them 5 miles but the heifers thought that we were killing them. There is houses and vehicles and other trappings of civilization is a little bit much for these heifers. They are pretty…
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Cattle Rustling
<a href="//www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/01/build/business/65-rustling.inc">This</a> is a real good article on cattle rustling and new high tech ways of dealing with it. Many people might not realize it but this is still a big problem in cattle country. Most of the time it is one or two critters but other times it can be a lot. The Padlock…