The nice lady at Drovers emailed this reply to me. What follows was my fun response that I would have liked to have sent back.(It is intended to be humerous) "You're a great crowd. Try the veal. I'll be here all week"
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Dear Mam,
Thank you for taking time to contact me and helping me face the truth about my cattle operation. I will contact you again in the future when my herd swells to one hundred head.(May I include the dung beatles as part of my herd. No...wait...I don't have those yet. And that would not be the Cowboy Way.)
If I sign up for the Not Cattle Ranching Business and agree not to produce 1000 head this year may I qualify for the free subscription then?
Thank you also for helping me to take a seriouse look at my reading time budget. I understand that with the 90 extra minutes of heat detection every day, that I havn't touched my Prairie Farmer and Blessed Field and Stream waiting for me on the couch(plus others in the 8 inch stack) that I really shouldn't take on any more, especially until I get the upstairs toilet tank flush valve repaired, and the new fence built west of the barn, and..... ;-)
Sincerely, :cboy:
Bret
