"The world is little..."

the bottom wire on this cattle fence has no barbs so the pronghorn do not get ripped up by the fencing when they crawl under it...

the elk hop over the fence effortlessly but never crawl under

cattle are sure that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence

as long as we are in a livestock state of mind i will recount some of the youtube sites which seem to have targeted me in the last week or so...initially i was only looking at "rust ridge ranch" and adrianna but suddenly i was assailed by thousands (at least dozens) of videos by "katie walters" who works on her dad and two uncles large farm in minnesota or maybe wisconson...anyhow these folks have thousands of acres of land and thousands of head of dairy cows and some beef bovines ...they have a gazzillion pieces of equipment all over the farm and it seems that a lot of it is being repaired...ms. walters is 30 years old going on twelve and should quit drinking....she will eventually quit (insanity/sobriety/death are the options available to us)...this woman drives all the equipment and can probably go into the movie business or work as a model if she decides to get off the farm...there is also "the aussie horse girl" who is interesting (cleavage seems to figure prominantly in most of these  female livestock presenters) there is however one very serious studious woman who promotes beef production...emma coffman @double E ranch advocacy...a wealth of information from a woman who raises beef cattle...i was inspired by watching these ladies getting around all this equipment and changed the oil and oil filter on the truck this week as well as the air filter...also had the tires rotated and balanced...changed the strings on the nylon string guitar as well...had some interesting encounters last week when a couple very large men decided to provoke me by assaulting me.(one guy dropped a snow ski on me and the other slammed himself into the couch behind me and if i had been a bit slower i might have suffered a broken arm)...in general i think the local "home-guard" (read mafia) has decided i am not respectful enough of their tyranny...well i never was very good at being popular with bullies...

got to look at some music and get ready for sleep now...

"The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing--desire." Willa Cather "The song of the Lark"