cerveza

No, I'm not baking. Visit my web album link in the sidebar to satisfy your sweet tooth.

heirloom

Here's one of my Christmas Presents. It's a print that my great-grandfather had and a frame my father made out of birch. I think John was the sawyer on that day. Maybe Nate was cuttin' stickers. Skip was also there catching mice.

MRSA of Animal Origin in Humans

MRSA of Animal Origin in Humans | CDC EID

Toys fer Tots

The beginnings of my brother's fleet.

Relativity

Entire Blogosphere Stunned By Blogger's Special Weekend Post

Browing sweat

There's no two ways about it, making deerskins into buckskins is muy dificil. I'm looking forward to hunting season when I can get a new supply of deer hides. Having only done one, I think I've got all the bugs worked out, especially my naivety about how much work is involved. All I need is two or three more hides to make some sort of hunting jacket. Now the only thing left to do is smoke this hide, and wait for the others.

Hiding my Stretch

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Sorry for the mix-up. Now everyone can comment on my blog.

Cash flow and Profitability

I finally found a good chart that details a cow's cash flow. Many farmers percieve this and instincly know that a first calf heifer has only just paid for her upbringing. Notice that breakeven doesn't occur until about 32 months of age(provided that she mirrors the lactation cycles of this chart). In any dairy herd the mature herdmates actually generate a profit, whereas younger animals only provide cash flow.

Drucker

I'm currently reading about Peter Drucker, and wanted to pass on a few thoughts of his. I mainly was interested in his views on management, but I stumbled on some other ideas too.

-Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.

-A company's primary responsibility is to serve its customers, to provide the goods or services which the company exists to produce. Profit is not the primary goal, but rather an essential condition for the company's continued existence. Other responsibilities, e.g., to employees and society, exist to support the company's continued ability to carry out its primary purpose.

-If...organizations struggled, he believed it was usually because of outdated ideas, a narrow conception of problems, or internal misunderstandings.

-Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. It's as large a change as when we first got the printed book. Do you realize that the cost of higher education has risen as fast as the cost of health care? And for the middle-class family, college education for their children is as much of a necessity as is medical care—without it the kids have no future. Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. Higher education is in deep crisis.

And of course a Ross Perot quote to close it up.

-Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Plain ol' hamburger

...the Catholic faith seems to me to have little effect on my work as a judge. . . .

I haven't read the whole article. I couldn't stomach any more than that.

New tool to boost milk production

New tool to boost milk production: study - Yahoo! News

With rbST out, it's 0nly a matter of imagination what's next.