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It was so sad to see Notre Dame Cathedral burn. We visited it several times. There are magnificent churches in Cologne, Germany, Reims and Chartres, France. There is a picture to the Cologne cathedral in the photo forum. While it might have been seen as excessive to have spent so much...

Back about 25 years ago, I was partnering with my brother Jack in a small cattle operation. I helped him with the haying and feeding and I was allowed to keep about 20 cows on his ranch in Colorado. We had bought some 90 first calf heifers from the sale barn in Limon, Colorado...

My neighbor got enthused about old John Deere tractors and bought a 1930 something model A which he was working on. He had it parked near his house on a trailer when, for no apparent reason, one of the rear tires blew out. It had ballast in it thoroughky covered one side of his house. Had to...

Today, they had a school lockdown because there was a large black bear on the school grounds. This was in a city. I have noticed that there were no chokecherries, wild plums or currants on the bushes. I also have noticed there are no acorns on our gambel/jackknife oaks this year. Bears gorge...

Malcolm, What happened to Political Bull/ Also. the indicator showed I had a private message, but I was never able to access it. CP

It probably is not a good thing to enter 2048 in your browser!! CP

A few weeks ago, a rancher in Colorado loaded 29 fat open cows in a cattle pot and headed towards the auction. The truck got less that a quarter mile before it crossed some railroad tracks -- at the same time as a coal train . Truck was destroyed, 19 cows killed outright three more had to be...

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Just got my 2012 return back from the CPA. I knew I was going to owe them money, but was a bit surprised by the amount. Noticed they had entered a long term gain as a short term gain - difference is about $5000 in tax. It is still a manual process to enter data, but the professionals have a...

I must be getting old, but a lot of things aren't as good as they were including: Smoked hams - now hams are mostly made with liquid smoke and aren't as flavorful as they were. Apples - Apples sold in stores are hard as hell, have a skin like leather and aren't much of a pleasure to eat...

In 1937, my parents bought a 1520 acre ranch in Colorado. The price was $10,000. A couple of years later they bought another 160 acres for $2100. They had five children, two of which were boys. Father was of German ancestry and the tradition was that the land would go to the oldest son. Also...

We had snow on the ground most of the winter. Got almost 30 inches in February, then none in March which is supposed to be the wettest of the winter. In early April, got a nice snow early. Then last night we received almost a foot of snow - wet with no wind -. Car is stuck in the driveway...

Just paid the license renewal on my 2009 Chevrolet4 x 4 half ton pickup. The cost was as follows: Ownership Tax__________322.14 License Fee_____________129.72 Road Fee________________28.00 Bridge Fee_______________17.25 Total___________________451.86 Does this state have any competition??

Hi there, I just got off the phone with a friend living in northern North Minnesota near the Canadian border. She said that since early this morning the snow has become nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near...

They find something else to do. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1418565565?bctid=23207933001

For so many years, a John Deere tractor was a paragon of reliability and simple and cheap to keep going. When we sold our ranch, we bought a John Deere compact tractor with a loader and rotary snow plow so we could hang around our place a few more years. After about 2 1/2 years, it has about...

We had quite a number of stock tanks on our ranch. Most were steel, some were fiberglas. We tried to bury them a few inches or, in the case of steel, they were set in concrete about level with the ground. A neighbor says that if we would have buried them so that only about 6 inches were...

About 8:00 PM last night, I was checking the news on the computer when the phone rang. It was my son on his cell phone. He asked me if I knew anything about gasoline engines that still had maual chokes!! Seems like they were in an old boat on a river in Minnesota when the engine quit. They...

It now appears that the whole global warming thing is rapidly turning into the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind. Some billions of years ago, according to the big bang theory and those that study these things, the earth was formed. Almost all of the matter which is now present on the...

Some of you might remember a couple of years ago, We sold our ranch. We kept our GMC Duramax 2500 HD. A couple of days ago, we traded it in for a Chevrolet 1500 half ton. We owned the Duramax for 5 years. While it was a ranch truck, we kept track of every gallon of fuel that went into it. We...