Come for a western Ranch Vacation!
We got some yesterday evening. Afterwords it showed about a half an inch in the bucket on the step.
Then last night about bed time it set in again. This morning there is 2 and a half inches in the bucket, by the ruler. Wish we could share this with them folks in the south who are burning up.
I think it was a good idea to postpone the branding this weekend. Got some to go to this week, if it done rain them out.
Now, off to Church.
and grandkids. Tate and Kass came out last night, so me and Gabe and Lige went and fed Fred. Fred just wants to suck on peoples legs and arms, anywhere he thinks there might be some milk. Greedy, hungry little sucker! He doesn’t even buck when children set on his back! Just keeps backing up, looking for the secret bottle, with milk.
It’s wet and windy and cool out there this morning. We might go try fishing after while and tear some boards off the old shed for Tate to mill down and have ready to make the doors and drawer covers for the new cupboards and cabinets.
Started on a new set of spur straps fro myself. Finally got them done. Wish I had left a bit more border, other than that, I think I will like them.
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/63503/horse-slaughter-bill-back-in-play-in-congress
By Tom LaMarra
Updated: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:37 AM
Posted: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:29 AM
Legislation that would ban the transport of horses for the purposes of slaughter has been re-introduced in the United States Senate.
The American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011 is similar to legislation that failed to pass Congress twice before. The remaining three U.S. slaughterhouses closed by 2007, but sponsors of the latest measure claim horses are being exported to Canada and Mexico for slaughter.
Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, one of the sponsors of the 2011 bill, said in an address to Senate upon introduction of the bill efforts to pass the legislation have been “thwarted” in conference committees, not on the floor of Congress.
Landrieu also said 95% of horses in the U.S. die naturally and humanely because most owners do what’s right, “but there’s always a small group that proceeds down a path that is totally inappropriate.”
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduced the bill with Landrieu.
The bill has the support of the Humane Society of the United States, which in a release said previous actions in Congress “have demonstrated a strong, bipartisan desire to prohibit the killing of horses for human consumption.”
Republican Rep. Sue Wallis of Wyoming, in a statement sent out by the United Organizations of the Horse, said Congress should wait for a soon-to-be released U.S. Government Accountability Office report on horse slaughter before acting on the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011. Wallis said the Senate-commissioned study looked at the effect of the closure of slaughterhouses on the welfare of horses themselves, as well as the effect on farm economy.
A primary concern of many in the horse industry is that few alternatives are being offered to take care of horses that aren’t sent to slaughter.
“Congressional members who support these destructive bans and prohibitions on the horse industry are stripping a cog in the agricultural wheel in favor of an animal rights industry that does not generate any revenue or jobs,” Wallis said in a statement. “That approach supports only non-contributory, emotionally-charged groups and eliminates a multibillion-dollar, tax-paying and jobs-generating industry.”
in trying to improve the situation in DC by sending new people in at election time. Check this out over at The Travis McGee Reader (which is on my blog roll of course)
http://love-a-luddite.blogspot.com/2011/06/litte-vvsop-at-tea-party.html#links
Until, and not until then, we have the power locally as was designed in the Constitution, sending anyone, no matter how good they seem to be, to help fix the mess in DC, is similar to sending a clean person into a sewer and expecting them to not get dirty, when trying to unplug or fix it!
It’s true evidently. Power does corrupt. Absolute power does corrupt absolutely.
Those of us in the other circle who think we can elect and send good people to Washington to fix this country are very naive. There is too much power, money and greed. And they could care less what most of us think. As evidence by how they treat us. And many of us are to insipid and thick to even realize it. We can be bought off with our own money, that really doesn’t even exists, but it is kind of like the Emperors clothes. Everyone must admit that our monetary system is still viable, or we will all go down in flames.
Sad.
So very sad when you think of what this great country once was.
But the bumbling and greed and outright theft of so much by so many over the past 200 some years has led us to where we are today. And we have reached the point where they CAN and do buy us off at every election.
I am not sure how to fix it, but I pray to God every day that we can and do.
But I am afraid many are not going to enjoy or really want what it will take to do so.
Do you know why the Greatest Generation, was the Greatest Generation? Because of the times they lived thru’. When sacrifice was the norm. And sadly, very few today are willing to make any sacrifice, no matter how small. Yes there are a few, such as our people who volunteer to serve, selflessly and not for the money, but for the belief in something.
Would that we deserved their sacrifice and time they devote for us, as a whole.
Sad, so very sad what this country has become.
Getting some rain this morning. Little wind with it. About 50 out.
Took Colonel to the vet yesterday and got him gelded then drove down and did some banking at Philip. I need to work on getting all the stuff ready for branding on Sunday. Was invited to a branding up north of Chance and Hope tomorrow, but doubt I will make it. Supposed to be wet and cool, so they may have to cancel anyway.
On the radio yesterday a Meteorologist was saying we are supposed to stay wet up in to July anyway and pretty cool until the end of June. That ought to make the grass grow some more.
I didn’t get to take many while I was dragging calves. I roped off Mijo and drug calves, straight up in the bridle for the first time. He handled it well. Got pretty warm, but we had a stiff breeze to cool us off. Cows penned the best they ever have and the sorting went well also. Especially when we got enough riders in there to just hold them in a corner next to the gate and let the man who owns them sort them off. We just held cows and let calves drop thru’ us while he was letting cows out the gate. Nothing wild or fast, just pretty smooth. Click to embiginate, as always.
Tired but here’s some photos from trailing cattle yesterday. Branding photo’s tomorrow.
Up at 3 am to catch and saddle Peaches, load in the trailer and head to one neighbor, pick him and his horse up and head out to be at another neighbors to trail cows at 4:30. We were a little early. Cows moved good for awhile, but about a mile and a half to two miles from our destination they needed a rest. We let them and then went on and pushed and fought them along a state highway. Most people coming by were good, but there are always a few in such a dang hurry they can’t be bothered to slow down too much, even tho’ we had flaggers both fore and aft. Got them there, paired up and ate lunch. Short move, but seems like we rode a lot. And it got up to 80 or so by noon. Supposed to be almost 90 tomorrow.
Then afterwards me and the neighbor riding with me went to another neighbors and roped and caught a fall bull calf who had a prolapsed rectum. Peaches ain’t got a lot of speed and I can’t throw a loop in a nylon rope very far. Evidently my lucky snag on a calf thru the fence was my loop of the day!
My second loop fit, but he ran thru’ it while I was trying to slow Peaches and jerk my slack. Lyle made a snag and I got him heeled after Lyle drug him out of a dam. It was his third trip into it for the day. While we had him down and sewed him up, we cut him also and he swam back out into the dam to ease his temper and injuries.
Fort some reason I seem tired this evening. Up early tomorrow for another branding almost an hour north of me. Rooster is supposed to ride along. Maybe some pictures from the new camera. I broke the screen on the old one the other day, shutting a gate I guess. Got some pictures today, but I am too tired to upload them to the computer.
I ran into Sturgis and picked up Cindy when she got off work. Went to Rapid and she got another estimate for new fixings for the kitchen. Then we went to Custer to Tate and Kass for Tate’s approval of the layout as he is going to make the doors and and drawer faces out of old barn wood. It was late when we got headed home so I just drove Cindy home and then went in with her this morning to get my pickup. There were some changes in the plans from the first place we went to so we decided I should go back and have them re-draw up the plans to match and see who had the best deal.
Part of the reason to go with another company is that after we had left the place yesterday afternoon, we had tried to call back and talk to the man who drew up the plans and in the ordeal of trying to get a hold of him in this mega store, Cindy was sent to the wrong area’s on the phone and as the man who was trying to direct her call went to put her on hold he muttered something about a “bitch”.
Now, I don’t think he was referencing his dog, so after Cindy got hung up on, we called back and I talked to one of the managers, told him what had happened and the fellers name (he was stupid enough to give it to Cindy before the “bitch” comment) and the department he worked in. I mentioned that the feller out to be smart enough to wait until someone is on hold before they utter phrases like that. The man apologized of course and said he would look into the matter, but so far nothing else came of it. I would like the contact the feller we dealt with and explain why we went with a different company. It sure wasn’t his fault.
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