Cattle Guard

Mike was wanting to put in a cattle guard out at Middle Grove, but...they work for cattle not horses. They are very dangerous for horses so we talked him out of it. Good thing, if one had been put in it would have been fired. Read below: 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, By the way This is a joke that has been told and retold since the 1950s according to snopes.com but today was the first time I heard it and thought it relevant. Work today was a little frustrating. My car is full of snow tires and golf cart tires. The appointment to get the snow tires on the car is now Wednesday morning. The printer wouldn't communicate again with the computer and I had to have Mark come down to help today. There mail was all opened but not all processed, just too much mail. That's what I get for taking a week off.