Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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When it Rains, It Pours
On Monday we got over an inch of rain. Last year I would have given anything for moisture, so far this spring I am getting more than enough. I rode across my plowed field that I want to seed to grass and my horse was sinking in about a foot and there was water standing…
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Waiting
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/yearlings04142007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/yearlings04142007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The yearlings waiting for me to open a gate so they could go to the hills. Taken 4/14/2007.</center>
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Prices
<a href="http://www.mtpolitics.net/archives/5374-How-Bout-That-3-Gas,-Huh.html">Craig asks a very good question about gas prices</a>. Why that the Democrats are now in control are we not hearing any noise about the high gas prices like we did before the elections? I see that there is no answer to his question, some comment about gas prices but no answer to why…
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Supper
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/supper04182007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/supper04182007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows enjoying being out in the hills and away from the feed ground. The calf appears to be enjoying his supper. Taken 4/18/2007.</center>
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Slow
Boy, things are going slow around here. As far behind as I am getting they should be going fast, but they're not. I'm not really complaining though. What's slowing me down is rain and more rain and more rain. It keeps it to wet to do most of the work I need to do right…
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Curious
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/curious04132007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/curious04132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A couple of calves curious at what I ws up to. Taken 4/13/2007. </center>
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Doesn’t Deserve To Breathe
<!– s9ymdb:47 –><img width='165' height='220' style="float: left; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/noose.serendipityThumb.jpg" alt="" /><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/20/news/state/60-car.txt" >Mother charged after child left in car</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Great Falls woman was charged with felony criminal endangerment after allegedly leaving her 2-year-old son in an abandoned car overnight as snow fell and temperatures dropped to 32 degrees.<br…
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Grazing
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/hill04172007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/hill04172007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Beautiful day in Montana. If you look real close you can see some cows grazing to the right of the rock formation. Taken 4/17/2007.</center>
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Weighing In
I see the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/20/news/state/30-epa.txt">EPA is weighing in</a> on the CBM issue here in Montana. They are telling our fair haired Governor that the proposed law, SB 407, that would allow the CBM water to be stored in unlined stock ponds might violate the Federal Clean Water Act.<br />n<br />nBoy, what a way to put…
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Cute Calf
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/cute04132007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/cute04132007.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Just another cute calf. Taken 4/13/2007.</center>