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Part One, putting out salt and mineral, July 7, 2008

Soapweed

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You can see for many miles today.
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Traveling with the puttmobile
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It would be bad to get bucked off on this hillside, with all of this poison ivy covering the ground.
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Once in a while there were even some cattle to be found.
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Cowboy candlesticks
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The tank is full.
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Three-year-olds that will calve this fall.
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More of the same
 

leanin' H

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Did ya scatter that mineral or just pack it around? :wink: Cows look fine.
Them sandhills are surely interesting parts of this amazing planet.
 

Soapweed

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DOC HARRIS said:
Soapweed-

I am wondering why you contend with that poison ivy with all of the weed killers available!?

DOC HARRIS

There are a few little patches of poison ivy in some of our north hills which are five "barely accessible" miles from our house. We bought the ranch in 1986; they were there then, and they haven't seemed to get any bigger. The terrain they are in is "rough," in the truest sense of the word. It is nearly impossible to get a pickup into that rugged country. Most of the poison ivy is on steep hillsides where it almost serves a useful function of keeping the sand from blowing.

Those hills are in some of the most secluded and remote area of the whole Sandhills. It is very fragile, and with any over-grazing the whole area would turn into blowouts. On a good year it takes about 25 acres of this country to summer a cow/calf pair for five months. On a dry year, it takes nearly 35 acres. I just wish the tax assessor would realize the unproductiveness of that location. :roll: :wink:
 

DOC HARRIS

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Soapweed said:
DOC HARRIS said:
Soapweed-

I am wondering why you contend with that poison ivy with all of the weed killers available!?

DOC HARRIS

There are a few little patches of poison ivy in some of our north hills which are five "barely accessible" miles from our house. We bought the ranch in 1986; they were there then, and they haven't seemed to get any bigger. The terrain they are in is "rough," in the truest sense of the word. It is nearly impossible to get a pickup into that rugged country. Most of the poison ivy is on steep hillsides where it almost serves a useful function of keeping the sand from blowing.

Those hills are in some of the most secluded and remote area of the whole Sandhills. It is very fragile, and with any over-grazing the whole area would turn into blowouts. On a good year it takes about 25 acres of this country to summer a cow/calf pair for five months. On a dry year, it takes nearly 35 acres. I just wish the tax assessor would realize the unproductiveness of that location. :roll: :wink:
I just had an idea! :twisted: You might take him on a little "re-assessment and re-evaluation" review journey to that area, and after he becomes 'dis-oriented' for a couple of hours, :eek: rescue him! :twisted: That may be a more effective solution than "readin' him from the book!" :???: :wink: You might explain a few "facts of life" to him on the same journey!

DOC HARRIS
 

Mike

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DOC HARRIS said:
Soapweed-

I am wondering why you contend with that poison ivy with all of the weed killers available!?

DOC HARRIS

Yea, I'll send you some Kudzu if you want to be rid of the Poison Ivy. :lol:
 

nortexsook

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>>I just wish the tax assessor would realize the unproductiveness of that location.<<


Maybe the tax assessor has heard of Ted Turner?
 
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