Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Look Closely
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/mgrouse05042007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/mgrouse05042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Pretty picture in and of itself, but if you really look in the grass in the middle of the picture you can see some Sharptail Grouse doing their mating dance. Taken 5/4/2007.</center>
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Willing
I see that <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=682D236E-DC90-7633-9DC0437FCCCD3387">South Korean consumers are willing to buy US Beef</a>. It's just the politicians are trying to keep it from happening. I notice when US beef was offered in Japan the consumer was willing to buy it to. The politicians from these countries are reading their consumers wrong and maybe should open…
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Engineering
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/fence05042007?full=1'><img width='427' height='640' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/fence05042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>An interesting piece of fence engineering by an interesting rock formation. Taken 5/4/2007.</center>
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Replacements
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/chickens/replacments05072007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/chickens/replacments05072007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>My Darling Wife's new laying chicks came in yesterday. What the hatchery calls a brown egg layer mix so who knows what breeds there are in it. I think the older chickens sensed their replacements had arrived. They laid more…
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Called Back
The <acronym title="Montana Legislators">children</acronym> have been <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/05/08/news/state/20-legislature_v.txt">called back into Special Session</a> by <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a> to solve the budget mess they left and to vote on his pet project which failed the first time around. Reading the article it looks like he payed off some Republican <acronym title="Montana Legislators">children</acronym> to get what he…
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Where Does The Problem Begin
We have all heard about the <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKN0326662720070506?pageNumber=1">pet food recalls and contaminated wheat gluten from China</a> that has caused it. The story has continued since some of this contaminated gluten has been fed to hogs and chickens and now raises questions about these animals. <br />n<br />nThe hogs and chickens that have all ready made…
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Sentry
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/wildlife/goose04252007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/wildlife/goose04252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>There are a couple of geese around here who appear to be sitting on these rocks, watching the world go by, every time I go past here. I wish I knew what the deal was with them, I have never…
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More Information
Anybody who has read me for a while knows <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/plugin/tag/r-calf">I talk about</a> <a href="http://www.r-calfusa.com/">R-Calf USA</a> sometimes. I have also been <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2503-Dennis-McDonald-Resigns-from-R-Calf.html">following the recent upset in the R-calf ranks</a> which has led a large number of the founding members to leave the organization and start another new organization, <a href="http://www.uscattlemen.org/index.cfm">United States Cattleman's Association</a> (<acronym…
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Endangered
Canadian MP Mike Lake has called for <a href="http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/824548.htm">Bigfoot, of all critters, to be considered an endangered species</a> under Canadian law. Don't you sometimes wish stupidity was endangered? Mike Lake just proves it isn't.<br />n<br />n<strong>The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein </strong>
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Company
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/cats/mittens04252007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/cats/mittens04252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Mittens and Buster following me home after an evening walk with My Darling Wife. Taken 4/25/2007.</center>