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    Up and running again

    I have abandoned my solar pump....it was to pump water from my neighbors pond.....my neighbor and I were cattle partners.....after he died several years ago from cancer, his sons maintained ownership for a few years..... my solar system is now idle. originally I pumped water from my neighbor's...
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    Catching Up

    no angus....I only haad a few when we had the barn fire in 2021.....took my feed , tractor, cattle facilities which were in the barn....the few cows I had went to my sons that afternoon. currently raising some red angus heifers for a neighbor
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    Yesteryear Cowboys

    I was a pretty good rider back in the day...... but thank goodness I was not good enough to try my hand at rodeo..... and then too rodeo was pretty rare in Virginia when I was young so there was not so much temptation
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    Catching Up

    Hello to all my old friends....... hoping to make some new ones from those who have joined since my last post that was some time in 2020 life has changed a lot in the last few years. my wife had a life ending stroke in 2018. my best friend and horseback riding partner, battled cancer for two...
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    Not what i expected

    Well it has to happen as the power companies are being penalized for non environmentally friendly generation methods....People dont want coal fired plants....people don't want nuclear plants, people dont want oil fired generation....but they all want to hit the switch and have the lights come...
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    Handiest thing I've bought in a long time.

    off topic.....i read this thread all the way thru because I have been shopping for something to do limbing with.... about a year and a half ago I bought a small stihl it think it is a 170.....bought it to clean up fence lines that I had to put a hot wire on....my farm boss was wearing my...
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    I unretire tomorrow

    I am out of my current gig at the end of the year....will probably pick up a part time gig to keep groceries in the house and feed for the horses. Hope to increase my saddle time
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    So let’s hear it

    government mandating behavior and shutting down commerce has costs that will burden us for years.... government spending trillions to bail out people and industries which were shut down by the government will take decades to recover if recovery is at all possible. The economy is near collapse...
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    So let’s hear it

    as Smoking M pointed out ...... This country wasted little time in monetizing the disease..... thus I call it an election infection in my opinion this resulted in everything from hemorrhoids to gunshot to traffic fatality deaths being reported as Covid.... I do not believe the numbers in any...
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    So let’s hear it

    i thought we were going to discuss without the bashing but I guess I was wrong.... hard to do right when you have an entire national political party dedicated to creating your downfall....
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    I’ve done acquired a goat

    they do learn about electric fence fairly well.....they are pretty smart and that is the biggest problem with them...they will find the holes in your system....but I do like mine and they all come running when they see me...they are in with the horses to eat the stuff the horses won't eat...and...
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    apparently highly heritable

    below is a photo from my oldest son. these are my two grandaughters combing a bull calf that Fisher (my oldest Grandson) is prepping for show. apparently the disease I have is highly heritable i got it from my father. I apparently passed it to both my sons as they both feed cattle daily...
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    Another money saver

    Many years ago I was cleaning up some stuff with a chain saw....was walking and looking at the tree I was going to cut next while carrying the running saw.... Stepped over a log and the running saw put a nice gash on my thigh just above the knee cap.... close call from which I learned a few things.
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    Red wasps got me moving quicker this morning

    I got blasted by what we call a bell hornet this morning...I think some folks call em Japanese hornets.....went out the front door in the dark and about twenty five of them were congregated at the window above the door...one of them greeted me on my neck right under my jaw.....I went to the barn...
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    You know you are getting old when

    what was this thread about anyway......
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    Unusal Weather

    washington post is so far to the left that I fear if I go over there I might fall off the edge of the earth....
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    Tainted Drugs

    I think the injectable stuff knocked it back and the methrotrexate is just helping me hold it at bay.... I also take a product called instaflex plus and it helped me in seven days and I can tell if I run out, so I do not run out. RA doc looked at it and said if it helps, then take it....I...
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    Tainted Drugs

    Yes I have been on it for several years. Was on her Embrel like for a year or so but now just the mthrotrexate for three or four years
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    Tainted Drugs

    [/b] and quiet consolidation of the dairy industry over the last thirty years at the marketing and processing level has lead to the current debacle in the dairy production industry. And the big players keep advocating to throw up regulatory "public Safety" barriers to prevent smaller startups...
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    Is climbing Mount Everest on your bucket list?

    Should you not more correctly say...... Kick the bucket list? what is the thrill in doing something so unique if you have to stand in line to do it? me....more likely to go camping in death valley in the summer than going anywhere cold on purpose....
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