Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Heifer
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/looking08012007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/looking08012007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A nice little heifer calf wondering what the hell I am up to. Taken 8/1/2007.</center>
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Border Ruling
I know I am a little behind on this one but life sometimes gets in the way of things. The <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> <a href="http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&contentid=2007/09/0247.xml">has approved</a> the import of Canadian cattle over 30 months of age into the US. This is, to say…
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Sleep
Sleep, what a precious commodity that can be at times. I always have trouble sleeping when it comes to certain things around the ranch here. Branding and shipping being the two things that regularly cause me sleep problems. Hell, everything can be going good and I still can't sleep because of the added stress of…
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Pressure
I see China is trying to pressure the US into <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/18/business/AS-FIN-China-US-Food-Scrutiny.php">accepting more tainted food</a> by blocking American imports into their country.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>China has sharply increased inspections of imported U.S. food, escalating its spat with Washington over product safety and leaving American beef piling up in warehouses and delaying shipments of black pepper and…
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Clouds
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/clouds09022007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/clouds09022007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The way the line of clouds had formed across the sky really caught my attention. It was quite the sight, the picture doesn't do it justice. Taken 9/2/2007.</center>
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Troublesome
I found <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091501647.html">this article</a> about pig disease in China very troublesome. I read it yesterday morning and had to let it run around my pea sized brain for a while but it struck me as a problem.<br />n<br />nWhat's so troublesome about it? China is so worried about making money off the vaccine for…
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Pick It Up
I met some family today in Billings and went out for lunch with them. We try to get together for "special events" and with my oldest daughter's and my birthday coming up this week, that qualified. While I was paying the bill for our meal I remembered a really bad habit I had for a…
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Clean Out
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/clean09132007?full=1'><img width="640" height="480" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/clean09132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We cleaned out the windmill pasture the other day and this is all we could find. Everything else moved out to the better grass towards home on their own. Lucky or not is the question. We found 13 critters while…
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Quote
<strong>By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates.</strong><br />n<br />nI'll guarantee, I am no philosopher.
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Concentrate
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/cats/concentrate08262007?full=1'><img width="640" height="427" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/concentrate08262007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Tiger was sure concentrating hard here. I'm not sure is she was concentrating on her balance or on just getting to me but she does have a look. Taken 8/26/2007.</center>