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    My bad habit

    So when the nice weather comes I have this tendency to cook outside over an open fire. Mrs. bought me a new dutch oven for my birthday (to add to my other cast iron cookware). Any tried and true stew or bread recipes out there?
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    Looking to buy

    Raining all night here, supposed to be close to 3 inches before it's done. Windy too. Not Gloatin, just sayin.
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    UCVM Beef Conference

    Went last year. (right in the middle of the Calgary flood) Excellent program. Will be there this year.
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    Dang weather

    A dust storm coming up from the south combining with severe rain from the east and our weather warning up here is for mud flurries. Oh my gawd, I think I'm losin it.
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    Scaling babies

    What does everybody use for weighing newborns? Using the bathroom scales but would like something more accurate. Nasco had a pretty good sling years ago that would strap front and back so the little duffer wouldn't slipout. Lent that one out, never saw it again and to use the slings available...
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    March in like a ............

    So, is 33 degrees in the hole in like a lamb or lion?
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    weather

    Dry cold / damp cold, the truth is, I'm turning into a candy ass!! Spent all of my time between Hamilton, Guelph and Toronto at the BFO AGM. I went quietly cause there are lots of my buddys that would be upset if they knew I was that close and didn't call!! Lets try to connect next time I'm in...
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    weather

    Going down to -30C tonight. Hasn't snowed in weeks though. Spent last week in Ontario. Minus 5C +/- Wet snow and or rain. I love going back home and seeing the folks but I'll take my Alberta weather any day. Those Ontario winds and moisture cut to the bone!!
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    Solve This 4th Grade Math Question

    I KNOW! I KMOW!! the answer is Nova Scotia in 1897. (I'm not just good lookin ya know.................)
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    HEREFORD BULL...:)

    That's It!!, My next trucks gonna be a Chev!!
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    One more day

    We're in the ice age out here!! |Mild temps, sunshine followed by -24 last night and I went down with a thud at the blue line. Injured my wrist, butt and pride. Thank God no one saw that......................
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    NCBA

    Met Alison Sunstrom CEO of GroSafe at an open house last week at an RFI open house at Olds college last week. Cool stuff. I'll be working the bioTrack display, booth #1662. Ask for Wayne. Be great to meet some of you guys toe to toe! (I like my coffee 1 cream 1 sugar!!)
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    NCBA

    Gong to Nashville to work the trade show for a few days. I'll have precious little time to cruise the event. Who are the "must see" displays?
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    Who says January calving is brutal?

    What would those cows have been be feeding on in the last trimester? (nice January here too but I haven't got the 'nads to change my calving season just yet!)
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    Record Keeping

    So, what does everybody use for cow/feedlot/inventory/epd record keeping program? On the laptop/chuteside/smart phone/back of the Camels pkg?
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    Change in the weather

    7Pm up here, -18C wind chill -24. And dark.
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    Math test

    Buttercup had her second calf March 5 2012. As a heifer she had her first calf January 25 2011. What is her calving interval?
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    Eighteen below zero

    My son just left for another day on the pipeline. Texted me back that his truck says -40 (for those who may not know, that's where the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales converge.) And his chickenschmidt old man hasn't had the nerve to stick his nose outside yet! 7:45 AM, north of Rocky Mountain...
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    Cattle owner true story

    Not sure what the rules are in that situation but in Canada it is illegal for FEED STORE STAFF to practice veterinary medicine. Way back when I was a pup working behind the counter we could SELL penicillin but not prescribe it. Later in my career our vet and I had an agreement. He promised not...
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    How does one keep the neighbors bull out of ones pasture?

    Had the same this situation this summer. I understand we are in cattle country and this schimdt is gonna happen. I understand ol Billy's just doing what God intended him to do (Go forth and multiply). I understand it will be MY bull that takes a stroll one day so find a solution instead of...
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