Just a Dumb Ranchers Wonderings
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Losing My Cool
I have a theory about life and how to handle things. You can't control what goes on around you, you can only control how you react to it. For some reason this calving season I am having a hard time following this. I am not reacting well at times. I have been getting real upset…
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Snow Scene
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/snow02142007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/snow02142007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I think this is the most snow we have gotten all winter. It sure looks pretty with the sunshine, even though the mud as it melts is a pain. Taken 2/14/2007.</center>
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What’s That
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/looking01312007?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/looking01312007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A heifer trying to get a closer look at me and what I was doing. The ice crystals on her whiskers really stand out in the larger picture. Taken 1/31/2007.</center>
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Calving Away
The heifers finally started picking up on their calving this last week. They were definitely not cycling when the bulls were turned out last spring. Nothing I can do about that, it's just the breaks. We have been busy though keeping up on things. It has really been tiring.<br />n<br />nThe weather has been nice…
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Cold
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/cold02102007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/cold02102007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A cold, snowy, Montana morning. You will note the cattle bunched up in a tight huddle for warmth on the left side of the picture. Taken 2/10/2007.</center><br />
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Destruction
It looks like the Montana House wants to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/24/news/state/23-cbm.txt">allow all the usable ground water</a> in South Eastern Montana to be pumped out of the ground to be gone forever. I really hate to tell these people but ponds and reservoirs go dry over time and then the ground water is needed to water the…
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Sunset
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunset02172007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunset02172007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Sunset through the trees. Taken 2/17/2007. </center>
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Confusion
I'm a little confused, a normal state it seems like. There is a bill in the Montana Legislature to <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/24/news/state/70-legifinance.txt">public finance legislative races</a>. The bill even talks about how the money is going to be raised for the idea. They would use $500,000 in State money to seed the project and then "fund the…
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Tongue
<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cowtounge02112007?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/cowtounge02112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The flexibility of a cows tongue. They clean their nose out with it. Taken 2/11/2007.</center>
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Rewarding Bad Behavior
I have a little update on the <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2417-Mixed-Message.html">Mixed Message</a> I talked about where the school was reinstating a basketball player over the objection of the coach for drinking, which was against the coaches rules. Obviously this happened while I was without Internet so I don't have the story but today's <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/23/opinion/gazette/50-gazetteopinion.txt">Gazette opinion</a> sums…