Life On and Off an Acreage

In-sights into moving from an Acreage back to Town, plus a few things I find of interest.

Two things that horses are scared about:


1. Things that move
2. Things that don't move




Old enough to be eccentric, but not rich enough

March 8, 2013

Found on Facebook

This does pertain to country living....I think.



... You will love this one, I haven't stop laughing yet.

For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails. 

A few months ago, President Obama received and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado . The Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the "cattle" guards immediately! Before the Secretary of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden, intervened with a request that...before any "cattle" guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining. 'Times are hard,' said Joe Biden, 'it's only fair to the cattle guards and their families be given six months of retraining! ' And these two guys are running our country, Passed on to you without further comment... I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING - - - - OH LORD HELP US

I sure hope this is not true!

5 comments:

  1. i'm guessing it is not. (fingers crossed)

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  2. So very sad. I have a cattle guard and did not vote for him.

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  3. Still laughing here, and can't show this to Keith because he will say "And THIS is our president?????" again.

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  4. Still laughing here, and can't show this to Keith because he will say "And THIS is our president?????" again.

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  5. No, it's not true. It's a very old joke which has been around for decades.

    http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/cattleguards.asp

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