Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings

  • Deer

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/white08072007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/white08072007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Here is a sight ten years ago you never saw around here, White Tail deer. Now they are becoming more and more prevalent. Taken 8/7/2007.</center>

  • Sickness

    I was visiting with a neighbor last night and he was telling me he was having some sickness trouble. Pinkeye. He said they have doctored about 50 head now and have a few blind ones because of it. The weird thing is that it is not horn flies causing it. He says there are something…

  • I Wonder

    There seems to be a lot of talk about the women <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/17/news/state/55-quads.txt">having identical quadruplets</a> here in Montana the other day. I really have to wonder though, if Canada's single payer health care system that so many in the US want to emulate, is so great, why did these people have to drive down to…

  • Angry Sun

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/angrysun08152007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/angrysun08152007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The large amounts of smoke in the sky from the fires in the area had the sun coming up very red yesterday. I wanted to call it an angry sun. Why is it the color red like this makes us…

  • Defense

    I find <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/16/news/state/62-schweitzer.txt"><a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>'s defense</a> of Republican criticism about the way he hired a new intern very interesting. Schweitzer never says what he did was right, he just points out, that in his opinion, a earlier Republican did the same thing so why should they criticize? So, two wrongs in this case…

  • Good News Or Not

    I see in the paper that a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/15/news/state/25-easternmt.txt">Type 2 Management team</a> is coming in to take over the Eastern Montana fires. The actual quote is;<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Type 2 management team from California is arriving to fight more than 20 fires in Custer, Powder River and Rosebud counties. Management of the fires will be…

  • Inspiring Confidence

    <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2785-Yet-Again.html">The Dispatcher</a> had a conversation the other day during the fire that I wanted to share with you. She was calling BIA fire control when she had the conversation.<br />n<br />nPhone ringing and is then picked up, voice on other end: Uhhhh?<br />n<br />nTD (The Dispatcher): Hello?<br />n<br />nVoice: Uhhh?<br />n<br />nTD: Is this…

  • Smoke

    <a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2007/US_AMO_2007225_lrg.jpg'><!– s9ymdb:109 –><img width='540' height='334' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke08132007.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />n<br />nHere is why it has been so smokey lately in Montana. We keep talking about the fires in Montana but it looks like the ones in Idaho are really big and nasty.<br />n<br />n<strong>I make it a rule…

  • Bee

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/flower08052007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/flower08052007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A bee doing his job on this sunflower. Taken 8/5/2007. </center>

  • Fire Information

    There is a slew of wildfires in Montana and here is a roundup of stories about them.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/20-fires_z.txt" >Church camps evacuated due to fire threat</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/22-fires_z.txt" >Buildings lost in eastern fires</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/24-fires_z.txt" >Fire officials fear wind shift south of Big Timber, Livingston</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/14/news/state/30-fires_z.txt" >Wildfires dump ash, smoke…

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