Monthly Archives: October 2008

Helped a neighbor gather and work some cattle yesterday. We had to use some pens that maybe weren’t ideal but it sure went well. ‘Course, we had a good crew! 🙂 On a sad note. One of the young men who the boys went to school with was killed in an auto accident the otherContinue reading “Neighboring”

Some shots I snapped while we were getting ready and gathering the cattle last Friday for shipping.

The Democrats have a dirty little secret that they don’t want you to know. It is that their mantra of Bush’s “Tax Cuts for the Rich” is unabashedly false. The rich paid a higher percentage of the total tax bill under the Bush plan than under Clinton. In fact, the expiration of the Bush taxContinue reading “Want to pay more taxes?”

Chance and Hope sold their calves today. Had a neighbor come to help, and he had a couple friends from back east visiting, so we had almost more riders than cattle to gather! Went well and we had them sorted and loaded in no time. Got to the salebarn way early and sat way tooContinue reading “Sale day”

My knee is sure sore. Hard to sleep last night. Kept trying to roll over and that was not a good idea. Called the vet today and as I thought, not much they can do, so I built me a leather wrap/brace. When it’s on it feels better. Going to go see if I canContinue reading “Sore”

I rode Mijo up west to move some cows and he wasn’t paying as much attention to my signals as I thought he should. Chance used to ride quite a few colts and when he had one acting like this, he would step off and “double” the colt, which means to send them off atContinue reading “Observations!”

Casey, a neighbor, dropped in to visit after helping another neighbor ship his calves. Had a good visit and glad he stopped. I worked on a new carving pattern for a saddle. Turned out good. Rode out this afternoon and found some cows had escaped into the yearlings and the yearlings in with some cows,Continue reading “Nice day”

I got this in an email this morning. Quite the story. Subject: This is a true story. Lufkin, TX http://www.lufkindailynews.com/search/content/news/stories/2008/10/07/secret _service.html This is an email we received from a friend who lives in Texas . I wanted to make sure of its validity before I sent the story on, so I checked it out onContinue reading “Hmmmm”

Cold, wet and windy! Fr Marchin’s parents are over from Poland, visiting, so they had a Polish dinner up to Faith to help raise money for their CCD classes. We went up and enjoyed the meal and getting to visit with people we don’t see real often. I updated the horse and saddle page withContinue reading “Brrrr!”

“Obama calls increasing taxes and giving them to the needy a matter of “neighborliness.” His running mate, Joe Biden, calls it a matter of “patriotism.” Yet when it comes to charitable giving, neither Obama (until recently) nor Biden feels sufficiently neighborly or patriotic to donate as much as the average American household: 2% of theirContinue reading ““Compassionate””