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 Utah's canyon trekking,deck chair packing desert explorer who dreams of visiting Canada someday
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Posted - 03/30/2010 : 10:30 PM
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This is no joke. This is a true local western legend....hehe
A family from the big city wins the lottery and decides to move to the wild wild west and take up cattle ranching. They purchase a ranch and are sitting around the kitchen table deciding what to name the place. The father wants to call it the "Twin Pines" because of the two pine trees at the entrance.
The wife wants to name it the "Bar None" which is a sensible, cool name for a ranch.
their daughter wants it named "Broken J" since the family spent all it's money and their last name begins with the letter "J"
The son wants to name it the "Crazy eight" ranch. because we're all crazy, coming from the city and know nothing of the west and cattle ranching, hehe
Arguing ensued, and the family decided on the democratic choice.
Yup, they named the ol place
the "TWIN PINES,BAR NONE, BROKEN J, CRAZY EIGHT ranch......
Well, sadly, they went broke the first year.....none of the cattle survived the branding.
tee hee
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delta, bc
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Posted - 03/31/2010 : 05:00 AM
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Another true story.
My uncle was a big time lawyer in Vancouver. Finally had enough of that rat race and sought a simpler lifestyle. He decided he would buy a farm in the interior and raise chickens. He didn't have any chicken farming experience but felt that he was an educated, bright man. How difficult could it be?
We all wished him well.
Then, one day, as I was walking in downtown Vancouver, I noticed him walking in pin-stripe suit carrying a legal briefcase. He was back lawyering.
I asked him about his chicken farming.
He said it didn't work out and that all his chickens died in the first year of operation.
"What happened?"
"Don't know", he said, "only thing I can figure was that I didn't plant them close enough together or water them frequently enough." |
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What shall we name the ranch?
