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Merry Christmas Red! I know the commercialism can get us down sometimes but just try to keep your focus on Christ and his great gift for us! That is what I know you believe. My hope and prayer for you is that 2009 will turn out to be a more peaceful and blessed year than 2008.

Kind of snow bound and bored. Did this last year and had some fun with it so thought I would do it again. We have two steers for my son this year. The first two are of a Paddy O Malley/Heatseeker steer we raised (Leroy) and the next two are of a Golden Child calf we bought down in Indiana...

Just wondering how many of you that have jobs in town are getting extra time off around the holidays this year. My shop is basicly shut down for the next two weeks. Hearing of a lot of other places locally that are down more days than normal around here. About 60% of our work is automotive...

Blizzard warning here in SW Mich. 10" new snow today with 40+ MPH wind. Temps are around 5 deg. There was a big 50+ vehichle pileup on I-94, one person killed when rear ended by semi in whiteout conditions. All churches were cancelled and some of the counties have pulled the plows off the roads...

No ice but sure got a bunch of snow in hurry here in MI. I went to work @ 2:45 AM and there was nothing going on. It started about 3:30 AM. By 5:30 all the schools were closed and when I left work at 11:00 were had a foot of snow on the ground and 18-24" drifts. It seems to have stopped now so I...

Hey; sounds interesting. We are a small and newer club calf operation. Hard to get people to come out and look at our calves and not enough to hold our own sale. Anyway, might be interested as well if all the logistics work out. Some questions? Would calves need to be brought to sale location a...

I have broken both my pinkie toes chasing after kids when they were misbehaving. Boy did they have a hard time not laughing at me because they knew that would only make it worse. We all laugh about it now several years later but at the time, I was not amused. DLZ

Thanks for your comments and suggestions so far. As to a community college; what are your suggestions, one that has some sort of Ag focus or just a general education?  Also can anyone recommend a community college with an Ag focus near Michigan? Not that we are opposed to going further but want...

My kids also show pigs. We do not raise them, just buy young pigs and feed them to market. It is a nice project for kids, not too much investment needed and fairly short term time commitment. We enjoy showing cattle much more that pigs however. DLZ

We have been looking at which direction would be best for our son to persue. Here is some background. We live in Michigan and my my son really would like to work toward a goal of owning his own cow/calf herd at some point with an emphasis on show cattle. He realizes that his options might be...

My daughter came home from College this weekend with a Shirt from an eating disorders conference they had. My 17yr old, 6'2" 265# son said " i an fighting Anorexia.............and I am winning!"    I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. DLZ

I too noticed that a lot of supporters of Obama that commented after it was announced that he had won the election made the most of the fact that we had elected a black man. No mention that we had elected a man with this certain policy or another one. Have heard no mention that now we will get...

Voted after work. No line but a steady stream of people. They had about 15 or so voting stations set up so I think that helped a lot. What or how does everyones precinct use for voting? We have a paper ballot the we fill out by filling in a little oval next to the candidates and/or proposals...

Couple of things come to mind, 1.Try to take him off his grain completely for 24 hrs and then ease him back in to it slowly, only what he will clean up in 20 min. 2. Did the feed change or did you just get a new batch? Does it smell any different?  3. Does he have competition when he eats...

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50 is only half way to 100!!!!! Lota of time left to enjoy cattle. Happy Birthday Red <party> <party> DLZ

My parents still have the same number as when I was born as well .When I was growing up it was a 8 party line. Can't imagine having to check to see if someone was on the line before making a call let alone be on dial up internet for hours at a time :). Also only had one phone in the house, now...

Didn't even have a TV until I was eight years old, I was soooooo deprived. Still get dressed up more for church than most over things I go out to but not suit and tie much any more. Meals are beginning to get less and less together now that kids are almost grown, only one home now and he is a...

As I am sitting here at home instead of working because my company is slow and we have gone to 4 day work weeks, I was wondering,  Do you think that the nominees for president might have been different if the financial situation had occurred 6 or 9 months earlier? I do not remember nearly as...