Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Carbon Credits
It appears that the Chicago Climate Exchange, whatever that is, is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/10/news/state/30-exchange.txt">going to offer farmers and ranchers</a> a way to sell "carbon credits" to companies that ant to offset their CO2 emissions. This is an interesting idea. Trying to get people to voluntarily do this before the governments step in and make companies do…
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April Snow
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/snow04062007?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/snow04062007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Cows in the never ending land of snow, or so it seems like to me. Taken 4/6/2007.</center>
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Something Is Going Right
We finally finished calving the heifers yesterday. I had to pull the calf which is a little unusual, most of the time the final heifers to calve have it on their own. I don't know why, that's just the way it seems to work. It's really nice to not have to check the heifers at…
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Cute
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/cute03242007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/cute03242007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This chunky guy is sure a cute fella. Taken 3/24/2007.</center>
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Children
Can somebody please tell me how sending Montana's school funding issue back to the courts for resolution is going to help the state of Montana? That sure <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/07/news/state/52-legifight.txt">sounds like what is going to happen</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Education groups are mixed on the bill. While they support the idea of state funding for all-day kindergarten, they…
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NOT A Winter Wonderland
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/winter04042007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/winter04042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Here is a shot of the snow that won't leave. Yesterday we got a couple of more inches and I see there is more on the ground this morning with another inch of snow in the forecast for today. I…
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Little Siberia
Mittens wanted to go outside this morning and took one look out the door at the fresh snowfall and decided not to. I told him that there is no door into summer and I don't think there ever will be again.<br />n<br />nI know, defeatist, but that's what it feels like. The snow all ready…
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Pair
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/pair03262007?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/pair03262007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Mama laying with her new baby. Taken 3/26/2007.</center>
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What an Idiot I Am
I guess I am just the biggest damn idiot in the world. I don't know nothing, I'm just a dumb rancher that learnded nothing and need to be told everything. <br />n<br />nA comment on my recent post, <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2545-More-Snow.html" >More Snow</a>, elicited a comment from somebody who doesn't want to leave a name that…