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!”
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Nice day
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”
Hmmmm
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”
Brrrr!
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!”
“Compassionate”
“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””
Change
I lifted this from Liz at Halfbaked Sourdough. She always has good stuff! Hope it was okay to do this! George Bush has been in office for 7½ years. The first six the economy was fine. In spite of the mid-2000 Clinton recession, it was even resilient enough to rebound after 9/11. A little overContinue reading “Change”
Tired of all the lies?
Go here http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/easescredit.asp and get the straight scoop on the mess with Fannie and Freddie.
Friends
Had friend come and visit . Got here Sunday evening and left a little before noon today. Always good to see them come and sad to see them leave. We went up and drove thru’ Spearfish canyon yesterday and checked out Roughlock Falls.
Opening day Antelope season
We went down south to pick up salt barrels so I could put salt out. Chance and I moved yearling’s north yesterday so we needed to move the salt tanks also. While we was at it, Tate and I looked for Antelope. We found a little bunch with a fair buck. Tate made a stalkContinue reading “Opening day Antelope season”
Land Sale
Gumbo ground, but good ground and it looks as good as it ever will thias year, brought an average of 362 an acre today at auction. Guess mine must be worth 600 an acre! Friend from Iowa was out yesterday and we looked at the land as he was interested in it but decided itContinue reading “Land Sale”