Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Sunset
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunset03082007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunset03082007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Just another Montana sunset. Taken 3/8/2007. </center>
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Amazing
I've been doing this job for longer than I ever expected to. Hell, I never expected to be doing it at all for that matter. Even though I have been doing it for a long time I still catch myself staring at things in wonder at how beautiful the world can be.<br />n<br />nI don't…
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What?
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/what03102007?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/what03102007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I loved this calf looking under his mom at what I was doing. It really struck me. Taken 3/10/2007.</center>
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Interest Rates
I can't believe this. It is reported in <a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS01/703150303/1002">this story</a> that the interest rate for refund anticipation loans range from 85 percent at H&R Block to 170 percent at Jackson Hewitt. I've always said these loans were a mistake for people to make and this just proves it.<br />n<br />nI was wondering why Jackson…
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Cute
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/cute03142007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/cute03142007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This is the cutest little calf I have seen running around in a long time. It doesn't show well but his ears just flop around all the time. It really makes him look funny. Taken 3/14/2007.</center>
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Overrun
All the talk about banning Horse slaughter has an affect.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6481804,00.html" >Kentucky Overrun With Unwanted Horses</a><br />n<br />nYes, states shutting down slaughter plants and the continued propaganda about horse slaughter has led to exactly what I feared. People letting horses starve and/or turning them loose to suffer.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>“We had one horse we…
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Ridiculous
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/03/16/news/state/20-legihuman.txt">Children at play</a>. That's all this is. The Republicans are going to throw all the toys away to please one member of the Constitution party and the Democrats won't even look at the toys because all they can do is cry about HB2 not being part of the toy chest. What ever happened to…
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Good Looking
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/san01302007?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/san01302007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>This is one of the best looking Two-year old heifers in the bunch. I really liked the looks of her. She's belongs to my oldest daughter. I hope I can talk her out of any heifer calves on her, she…
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Thinking
<blockquote>Writing – so different from ranching.<br />n<br />n“Writing is all in your head,” Groneberg says. “Ranching is all body, and you can get by without too much thinking.”</blockquote><br />n<br />nI read the above quote in <a href="http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/03/12/territory/ter12.txt">a story about Tom Groneberg</a>, author, rancher,hired hand, and all around good guy, and thought I was going to…
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Resting
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/rest03092007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/rest03092007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Resting in a dry, warm spot. Taken 3/9/2007.</center>