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    10 cm cut?!?!?! That must have felt great! I am glad that there is at least one person out there who doesnt have to tell everyone else how to live. That drives me crazy. Unless its a peta member telling me why I shouldnt eat meat or hunt. In that case I just mess with them and talk about all the animals I have shot or slaughtered in a gruesome fashion untill they get upset and walk away. National park land is always fun but your right, it can get crowded.

    PS: Hey, thats the steryotypical sheep herder!
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    Cool! There's been one or two others from the west, but one of them at least has just disappeared . At least someone else is in the same time zone as me! And that wouldn't surprise me . I don't have many friends that read unless they have to - or unless it's Twilight.
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    Awesome . May I ask whereabouts? Most people here are from the east coast, but I'm from the west.
    And I'm doing pretty well thanks . You?
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    Most of the herding and moving we do on horseback. Unless we are moving the bison, then we use the atvs. Cattle are pretty dumb and stick together. We usually have the truck and horse trailer pushing, and horsemen on the sides. Most everyone that works there knows how to ride so we have a bunch of people moving little groups of 200 cattle or so. It makes for a nice relaxed ride through the hills if you ask me. As far as exploring, absolutely. Im an avid mountain biker so I go all over the place riding deer trails. Then me and this old guy (the quintessintial american cowboy) go out riding off the trail alot. And last summer me and my roomate built an old jeep into an offroader so we take that up sometimes.
    When you herd sheep are you on horseback, or the image that is in my mind of a guy walking with a hooked staff?
    Hey, reading for the story is fine. As far as analyzing goes, you have to pick it apart piece by piece. Don't look at the story as a whole, rather smaller parts of it.
    Poetry for me came when I couldnt repress all these damn thoughts swimming around in my head. So I wrote them down.
    As far as not eating meat goes, I have no problem if others dont, as long as they don't tell me all the reasons that I shouldnt.
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    Yeah its alot harder to send an animal off to the slaughter house when you raise them yourself. Ive learned to eat what I kill. Nothing makes me respect life more than slaughtering an animal and using the meat to feed myself. That sounds like fun though, rearing lambs and such. I have a miniture austrailian shepard. We have never used dogs on the ranch so he stays home but I wish I could teach him to work. Yes 25000 is pretty big but I love every inch of it. I am a poet of sorts. There are a few poems in my blog and about the poetry thread. But I dont think I am that talented.

    Let me know if you find such a desk somewhere...
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    I did like Ender's Game, and I read Xenocide and something else by Scott Card, but I can't remember if I got through all of that series. The mock war game sounded like so much fun! Can you imagine; zero-gravity laser tag? That would be cool, and Ender was such a strategist! The other Scott Card books I really liked was a series called "Harmony," I think. It was about people who lived on the planet Harmony; they escaped Earth after humans wrecked it, and started over on this other planet. They have their political and religious views about things, and since they don't want their children to do the same thing to Harmony, they create a robot that will control your thoughts, to a certain extent. If you're thinking about something that could be perverted for warfare, like how to make a gun, instead of using bows and arrows for hunting, the "Oversoul" will make you forget your idea -- maybe you'll think about getting a snack from the kitchen, instead; that kind of thing. It's an interesting concept; I'm not sure whether or not I'd like to have it around here, though. =/
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    Give Eddie and Agro a hug for me...
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    hello! . I've been away for a few days or else I'd have come by earlier . So you're an Aussie too?
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    There are a couple of dissagreements yeah. The biggest one we had wasnt over water, but land. These two neighbors that live agacent to the ranch are both trying to buy a little 40 acre space, and are both accusing the other of moving around survey stakes. Stupid crap. The ranch itself is about 25000 acres. It is split by a highway, 20000 on one side and 5000 on the other. Which I love because I live on the 5000 side where no one else does, so basically I have 5000 acres to myself (except the summer when the house has 8 people in it). The other side has like 15 houses, which is too crowded for me. I envy you for having two horses, but its a shame dont ride much. Horses are extremely expensive. Your job sounds like alot of fun, personally, I would rather shoot myself in the foot than work at a desk all day. But I'm not sure I would like sheep as pets. My doggie is enough for me.
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    You certainly ask questions in large groups.
    Yeah, if it wernt for managing ponds, I would have no problem with beavers. Well the irrigation is for lots of stuff, the ponds, the hay, and stuff like that. The two main ditches are mostly for watering holes for the livestock. Plus it supplies many local ranches down the line. So we have to keep it running at the right flow. Its really a team effort of all the property owners they run through. If one uses too much, the next down the line is screwed, and if someone restricts the flow too much, it can flood and wash out banks up higher which screws over everyone. Its alot more complicated than many people think. (think of a river valley, now try to imagine water running parrallel to the river, but up higher about 2000 vertical feet. If that makes sense) This ranch isnt my families, I am an employee. It is owned by a guy that plays the stock market and is one of the richest men in america, but he and his family are rarely there. Its run by a manager and the full time staff is about 10. Seasonal staff (for the summer, including hay season) is upwards of 40, not including the chefs and whoever else travels around with the family. His name is Paul Jones if your interested. He owns places all over and I think he has land in New Zealand or Austrailia. It was hard to get used to bison. Cattle are big but they're basically like wild animals. They're more scared of you than you of them and they rarely charge unless its a bull in heat or you get between a mother and calf. Where as bison will charge you for no reason. The one that hit me was in a corral and I was going in to feed it. Out of nowhere it ran up and caught me right in the butt and flipped me over the fence. Which was about 8 feet tall. It scared me more than anything. Bison are amazingly powerful and fast. We actually cant herd them on horses because they can outrun a horse. We use atvs. Sadly, I dont own a horse because I cant afford one. I ride for pleasure and for work. Last summer I was on one whenever I got the chance.
    Man, that was long.
    Do you ride? Your job sounds like alot of fun and I imagine you get quite a kick messing with the tourists. So what does your job entail? Feeding and cleaning pens and such? And thats cool that you live on a farm/ranch. What kind of crops do you produce?
    Oh, as far as cattle go, they are really dumb. They are like big dogs basiclly and are much more afraid of you than you of them as I said above. Ive never worked with sheep but its something Im sure Ill do someday.

    ps: I dont know if I said this officially but... Welcome to the forum!
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by IJustMadeThatUp on 10-22-2017 at 05:27 AM
November is coming up and that means so is NaNoWriMo. I'm thinking about doing it this year. For a good chunk of November, I will be residing in a small, holiday town. I'll be flying daily to a nearby island and picking up wildlife for translocation. They'll be flown to an in-land sanctuary and then I'll fly back to the town each day. This will leave me with free afternoons/evenings, and I was trying to decide what to do with myself besides walking, swimming, reading, watching movies and cooking

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by IJustMadeThatUp on 10-07-2017 at 11:00 AM
I miss spending time on these forums. Reading back over my blog entries makes me cringe, but also gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia. The people and the upheaval in my life at the time made this a special place for retreat and reflection.

I don't know if there is any going back to recapture these moments. Sometimes it's best to fondly look back and reminisce every so often. Or start afresh.

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by IJustMadeThatUp on 09-05-2013 at 12:30 PM
We can't shoulder our packs and lug them around. You have to be sneaky, pretend it doesn't exist. They must be hidden, tucked away.

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No lumps allowed, the surface must be smooth and flawless.

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by IJustMadeThatUp on 02-08-2011 at 02:10 AM
It's changed It's my friend and I at Southbound - a festival where we camped for four days in 40 degree heat (celcius).

I've been making the most of my summer, spent thousands on festival tickets, even more on booze, eaten great food, rekindled friendships, been to the beach a lot, got an amazing tan, lost weight and had possibly too much fun.. There's still a bit of loneliness that creeps in, but I guess everyone gets that.

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by IJustMadeThatUp on 02-03-2011 at 03:16 AM
Hi All,

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