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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Ram.  Bucks are goats.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>


> We had sheep on the farm for several years.  At the time there was a good
> local market for the wool but not for meat.  At one time we had a Buck 
> Sheep
> that would knock you on your butt just to be mean.  If you were quick you
> could grab the wool on his head and he would not hit but as soon as you 
> let
> go he was triggered.  The only person he would not hit was my father who
> would bribe him with cigarettes.
> One day my mother was in the outhouse when the buck came along.  He waited
> for her and she would not come out until my father got home and rescued 
> her.
> We had an indoor toilet very soon after.
> When I was around 2-4 we lived in Cedar City, Utah.  My father was a heavy
> equipment operator in the mines and we had very little money.  He bought a
> truckload of beets and two lambs.  We ate beets and fed them to the lambs.
> When the lambs were big enough he sold one for about what he paid for the
> beets and lambs.  We continued to eat beets and added Mutton.  To this day 
> I
> cannot even stand the smell of mutton cooking and will not eat beets.
>
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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