The big sport when I was around 10 was riding the cows. The real trick was not staying on, but getting over the fence before the cow got you when you fell off! We did it fairly regularly until my uncle caught us. We NEVER did it again :o)



>My grandfather grew up on a dairy ranch in San Francisco. The ranch belonged to his grandparents. Up at 0500 to milk the cows. Again at 1800. My uncle had a dairy ranch in Janesville, California. Same routine.
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>You milk cows or they suffer.
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>My brother and I would go up for summer “vacation”. That is when we learned what work was! Milk cows, feed animals, buck bails, and fun things that my uncle would assign to us.
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>One thing that comes to mind was taking a pitchfork and removing the chicken feathers from the hay on the barn floor. As you know no animal will touch hay that has been “flavored” with chicken feathers. It was a means of baby-sitting his two sons and my brother and I. :)
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>Did you ever try to ride a calf? The four of us kids never made it past one second! :)
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>My grandfather had funny stories about the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. He was getting up to milk the cows, and sitting at the edge of his bed putting on his work boots. The earthquake began and grandpa (who was 16) said the bed and his boot “walked across the room”, taking him along while he was attempting to tie his boot. :)
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>>I giggled at your reply because it was normal to get up in the dark and do your chores in the dark when I was growing up in Wisconsin. Have to collect the eggs and milk those cows before daylight... :o) I have heard from relatives of studies where cows were milked 3 times and in some cases, 4 times a day though. I guess that is due to the automated milking systems...
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>>>>>We will update all client computers as well as servers and our MAC machines. Many of our applications are from different vendors to make things more complex for us. We use SQL Server and Oracle as databases. Getting everything in sync is imperative at $36,000 a minute down time.
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>>>>We are in the same boat. No Macs, but many SQL Servers, plenty of Windows Servers, and Unix, Oracle, etc.
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>>>>Do we need this crap? Does Congress care?
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>>>It is times like this that I wish we did not have DST, as is the case in some parts of the country.
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>>>Just imagine DST instead of starting on the first Sunday of April, will begin the second Sunday of March.
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>>>That is reminiscent of 1973 when president Nixon pushed for something similar to save energy. Mothers protested, as it was dark when kids went to school. The administration admitted that we ended up using 5% more energy so they dropped what we affectionately called “Nixon Daylight Savings Time”.
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>>>Remember the purpose of all politicians is to do something – anything- so you know they are “representing you”! :)