Old-Fashioned by choice. I'm also 2_Old-Fashioned for following world chaos, political stuff, but it's nice to come here to follow down-to-earth people in Ag.
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I have a knack for remembering birthdays. My mother would look at the calendar while drinking her am coffee & say, "it's ___birthday today". My father would say 1 birthday every year- Nov. 10th, "It's the Marine's birthday today." He's 95 now, still remembers it. Camp Fuji, Japan
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My uncle was 17, Grandma had to sign for him to enlist in the Marines with dad in 1953. On separate ships headed to Korea, they were rerouted to Japan on standby when they got word of the cease fire. Dad was at Camp Fuji. A training re-enacted the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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Putting together stories of early NV ranches from county records & newspapers is an interesting project. But it's the same storyline over & over again-- boom & bust. Debt loads, chattel loans- more land, more livestock, newer equip-- operating loans. More, more, more..
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My g uncle worked 19 years for the ranch I'm working on now. It's his story too. 4th generation ranch, started in 1875. Then, loans/death- widow sells to son-in-law; more property, cows, equip=bigger loans/death. I feel the widow's relief when it sold just to get out of debt.
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@trentloos I have to watch the Mon show with Hank to find out what's happening from the current Co. Commissioner in W.P Co, NV. $400,000 has to be paid back to the Gov. for the "free Covid $" used to build a duck pond that had to be rebuilt from a bad job by the 1st contractor?
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Thousands of sheep have been trailed south for the winter, north for the summer for decades on the sheep trail, but there's few sheep ranchers left in NE NV. It's great to see a band of sheep come by again with herders, camp tenders & a sheep wagon trailing them the old way.
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We can see activity on the sheep trail from the house. When we saw they were heading towards a place that flooded a few years ago, now difficult to cross with vehicles/equipment, my husband showed them a detour. Abt 100 miles @ 6-7 miles average a day.
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Have you ever watched the Mexican Rodeo Finals? Our Mexican friend who worked 10 yrs for us on the ranch doesn't miss them on YT. These guys can really handle a rope & are quite the horsemen. Live youtube.com/live/GBEcn04ceU4…
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We picked everything, but my garden is still going. It got close to freezing, but not enough to freeze everything. Now it's warming back up.
Here is the high temperature outlook for select locations across northern and central Nevada through this weekend. A gradual warming trend will be present with overnight low temperatures also gradually warming through the weekend. #nvwx
ALT Here is the high temperature outlook for select locations across northern and central Nevada through this weekend. A gradual warming trend will be present with overnight low temperatures also gradually warming through the weekend.
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No one can tell me that what is happening in the valley where I grew up in central NV hasn't been in the works for years. Original Desert Entry families who struggled to get going in the early 60's later discovered they missed the exact 1960 deadline to have filed for Sr. Water.
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2/2 It was this time of year that I first started learning to can--applesauce and whole tomatoes. This week, the granddaughter-in-law started learning to can-- applesauce & zucchini/tomato salsa.
Funny how life goes in circles.
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It's been my choice to be a homemaker, rancher's wife for years. We raised our own beef & still process our own meat. As retired folks on a fixed income, we can't afford to buy a beef to feed out & can't afford local or store-bought.
Yet, freezers are full: goat, pork, chicken.
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Good thing the grandson's wedding was the weekend before this in Helena & beautiful weather. People traveling over Homestake Pass also had a long wait with both lanes shut down for a semi wreck this weekend.
MONTANA WINTER STORM! ❄️☃️ Over 13" of snow fell this weekend across the state, especially in Helena and Great Falls, who broke a daily snow record. The heavy, wet snow brought down numerous trees on to cars and powerlines in the region. Believe it or not, extra moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Rachel in the Pacific helped to boost snow totals! @stormhour
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Old Fashioned retweeted
🚨 DEAR PARENTS, WERE YOU AWARE OF THIS?
I just discovered something today that genuinely concerns me.
The U.S. Treasury has automatically opened "Trump Accounts" for eligible American children under 18.
NO PARENTAL SIGNATURE. NO CONSENT. NO OPT-OUT.
And before anyone tells me I'm mistaken, I went directly to the official website. It explicitly states that automatic account creation cannot be opted out of.
Even if you never claim the account, it remains open and converts into a traditional IRA when your child turns 18.
And there's more.
Michael and Susan Dell have committed billions to automatically deposit $250 into the accounts of 25 MILLION eligible children born between 2016 and 2024, based on where they live.
Parents don't have to apply for the money.
Now we're connecting our children's financial identities to a system involving the U.S. Treasury, BNY Mellon, and Robinhood.
And apparently, parents are supposed to accept this because someone attached a dollar amount to it?
I DO NOT CONSENT.
I don't care if it's $250, $1,000, or $10,000. My concern is the principle.
Since when did parental consent become optional when establishing financial accounts in our children's names?
And why isn't there a way for parents to refuse?
My child is not a government asset, and I don't believe anyone should be establishing financial accounts in her name without my permission.
The fact that the official website openly admits there is NO OPT-OUT should concern parents regardless of their politics.
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A man who passed his medical in 1996 with flying colours has four diseases today, and not one number in his body has changed.
Blood pressure 135/85. Cholesterol 210. Fasting blood sugar 105. BMI of 26.
In 1996 that was a clean bill of health and a handshake. Today the same man, with the same blood, is hypertensive, has high cholesterol, is prediabetic and overweight. Four diagnoses, and he never caught a thing.
1997: the line for diabetes drops from 140 to 126. 1.7 million new diabetics by morning.
1997: high blood pressure drops from 160/100 to 140/90. 13 million new patients.
1998: high cholesterol drops from 240 to 200. 42 million new patients.
1998: overweight drops from a BMI of 27 to 25. 29 million people go to bed normal and wake up with a weight problem.
2003: prediabetes is widened from 110 to 100. It now covers 98 million Americans, more than 1 adult in 3, for a condition the World Health Organization declines to call by that name.
2017: blood pressure again, down to 130/80. Another 31 million. Nearly half the adults in America are hypertensive.
When the cholesterol targets were tightened again in 2004, eight of the nine men who wrote them had been paid by companies that make statins.
No germ. No outbreak. No change in a single artery. Just a room, a vote, and a tablet waiting on the far side of every line.
In every other branch of medicine you have to get ill to become a patient. In this one they bring the disease to you.
The last healthy people are the ones who haven't been tested yet.
That's pretty crazy for the first part of October- still watering the garden.
A warming trend is expected Wednesday through Friday. By Friday afternoon, high temperatures across Northern and Central Nevada will be eleven to thirteen degrees above normal for this time of year. Here are probabilities of maximum temperatures of 85 degrees or higher. #NVwx
ALT The image depicts probabilities of maximum temperatures of 85 degrees or higher for select locations in Northern and Central Nevada from Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 through Saturday, October 3rd, 2026.
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