Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Step Backwards
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/31/news/state/30-caucus.txt" >Montana Republicans eye caucus in February</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana Republicans would hold a presidential caucus Feb. 5, 2008, four months before the state's increasingly meaningless June presidential primary, under a proposal released Monday by Chairman Erik Iverson.<br />n<br />n…..<br />n<br />nIt would make 2,262 Republicans statewide eligible to vote in caucuses. The list would…
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Pair
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/pair07142007?full=1'><!– s9ymdb:107 –><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/pair07142007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Just another damned good looking pair. Taken 7/14/2007. </center>
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Helping Hand
I have a little announcement to make. A frequent commenter here, Bill, approached me about buying some heifer calves from me to give to the <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2727-Condemnation.html">Morgans and Karen who had there cattle slaughtered due to brucellosis</a>. We have come to an agreement and this will be happening. Bill is originally from this area and…
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Bunny
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/bunny07222007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/bunny07222007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>There are too many of these damn things around here. They really tear up a haystack bad, but this little guy sure was cute. Taken 7/22/2007.</center>
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Study
The <http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</a> recently sponsored a study about what were peoples final words when they were in a SUV crash. I know, weird thing to study but you know the government. They found something very interesting in this study. Throughout the US, with the exception of Montana, the last thing people said…
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Brucellosis Free
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=147391" >Cattle Health: <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Changes Idaho’s Brucellosis Status To Class Free</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending its brucellosis regulations concerning the interstate movement of cattle by changing Idaho’s classification from Class…
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Picture
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/breakfast07212007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/breakfast07212007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center>
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Permanent Disaster Relief
In a lot of ways, I really wonder about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/25/news/wyoming/40-relief.txt">this permanent disaster relief idea</a>. I really truly believe that if there was a permanent disaster relief fund, there would be pressure to find a disaster every year to use the funds that are there. They will never build up to be used in a…
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Pheasants
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/peasants07222007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/peasants07222007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I know they might be as little hard to see but there are three young pheasants here in the grass. There is a guy I know that raises a bunch every year and he releases some of them out here.…