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What a Week!!

Well this will be a busy week, I ended up taking today off on leave to pump out a few more items for my sale this week.  I will have over 100 items on sale from pens (a huge majority) to wooden handed shaving kits, bottle stoppers, cigar punches and coffee scoops.  Will have to wake up early tomorrow to try to get price tags on everything and pack it up. Below is a picture that I took of some of the items on sale that they are using for advertising. A good sale this week will give me a little more walking around money on leave so wish me well!!


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After the sale I will be going back to work for two days before heading off on leave, flying out on Friday about two in the morning to get to Mn about 9 PM. Will spend the night in Fargo before heading out to the farm on Saturday.  From what Chris said my planting may get shoved back a few days due to cold weather, Chris says he thinks the ground is still frozen solid but we will see,  I did get an email back from one of the guys I emailed about looking at some cattle and his operation while I am down there so I will be going to his place south of the cites  when I am down there  this trip.  He raises Galloway Cattle as well and a couple of other Galloway ranchers have talked  highly of him and recommended him as a possible source of my initial cattle.  So far most of the people I have been talking to raises them  on a smaller scale so they have not had much in the way of inventory to sell or part with, this gentlemen from the sounds of it operates on a bigger scale so hopefully I can get some realistic prices on cow/calf pairs.

Well hate to cut it short but need to get some sleep before tomorrow, going to be another busy day!

Travis

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