Well the winter storm warning for the Cascades was right on the money. We had a little trouble getting a load of cattle and a horse over White Pass night and had to drive up there at about 9:00 PM to get the rig of the hill. Fun times had by all. Thankfully everyone and everything got home just fine. I finally got home around 12:30 AM.
Back to building fence today.
#Cascades #winter #storm #cattle #horse #White #Pass #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #Distrit
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Saturday, November 12, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
November 11, 2011
On this Veteran's Day, let's all give thanks to those men and women who protected this country from oppression and tyranny. Remember all our veterans gave some and some gave all. Please say a prayer for our service men and women overseas protecting our freedom today and let us not forget freedom is never free.
We had a busy week. I picked up a load of cattle in Tenino on Tuesday, stopped at Tim Kunka's Tuesday night, sorted a few more cattle to finish the load at Tim's Wednesday morning and got back to Moxee Wednesday afternoon. I spent the day in Goldendale yesterday with Rep. Chandler and Senator Honeyford visiting with the Goldendale School District, Chamber and a few folks from the Conservation District. We also taped a radio program for KLCK.
Emily headed over to Mossyrock with two horses to leave with Tim. I know I've said it before, but if you need a horse trained you need to contact Tim Kunka at timkunkatraining.com. Emily's going to pick up the last load of cattle and a horse Tim's had since August.
Robert and I are headed out to work on fence and we'll be hauling a few cows home this weekend. Only two weeks until Special Session and there's a lot to be done.
#Vereran's #Day #Tenino #Mossyrock #Special #Session #Tim #Kunka #Goldendale #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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We had a busy week. I picked up a load of cattle in Tenino on Tuesday, stopped at Tim Kunka's Tuesday night, sorted a few more cattle to finish the load at Tim's Wednesday morning and got back to Moxee Wednesday afternoon. I spent the day in Goldendale yesterday with Rep. Chandler and Senator Honeyford visiting with the Goldendale School District, Chamber and a few folks from the Conservation District. We also taped a radio program for KLCK.
Emily headed over to Mossyrock with two horses to leave with Tim. I know I've said it before, but if you need a horse trained you need to contact Tim Kunka at timkunkatraining.com. Emily's going to pick up the last load of cattle and a horse Tim's had since August.
Robert and I are headed out to work on fence and we'll be hauling a few cows home this weekend. Only two weeks until Special Session and there's a lot to be done.
#Vereran's #Day #Tenino #Mossyrock #Special #Session #Tim #Kunka #Goldendale #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
November 1, 2011
There are only 26 days until Special Session and we have about 90 days worth of work to do. We've been busy getting fence built, cattle hauled and finally got all the hay done for the year. We've even managed to get a little duck hunting in as well. The picture is from the other day and if you look close enough you will see there are two dogs in the picture. The pups are doing great, especially only being 6 months old.
It sounds like the House Democrats are going to try and put a tax increase to the voters through a Referendum in February or March. We still don't have a lot of details on what it will contain, but there's a possibility that it could be a 1.5 cent increase in sales tax. Not good news for the taxpayers of Washington. Did you know that Washington State is still receiving more revenue in this biennium than it did in the last? As crazy as it sounds, had the Democrat majority not increased spending by approximately $4.0 billion for the 2011-13 biennium, we wouldn't be facing a budget crisis. Now the Governor and Democrat majority want to make the budget deficit political and have proposed cuts that will harm rural Washington more urban Washington.
The next couple of weeks will be busy ones, with several meetings and one more trip to Olympia before Special Session. Next week I'll be in Goldendale on Thursday to meet with the Chamber, meeting with Wapato School District on the 14th, off to Olympia on the 16th for a Tribal Retrocession meeting, and an assortment of other meetings here in town in between.
Off to build fence, fill water, dig a ditch to run power out to the pens, and run to town for some truck parts. Have a great day everyone.
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It sounds like the House Democrats are going to try and put a tax increase to the voters through a Referendum in February or March. We still don't have a lot of details on what it will contain, but there's a possibility that it could be a 1.5 cent increase in sales tax. Not good news for the taxpayers of Washington. Did you know that Washington State is still receiving more revenue in this biennium than it did in the last? As crazy as it sounds, had the Democrat majority not increased spending by approximately $4.0 billion for the 2011-13 biennium, we wouldn't be facing a budget crisis. Now the Governor and Democrat majority want to make the budget deficit political and have proposed cuts that will harm rural Washington more urban Washington.
The next couple of weeks will be busy ones, with several meetings and one more trip to Olympia before Special Session. Next week I'll be in Goldendale on Thursday to meet with the Chamber, meeting with Wapato School District on the 14th, off to Olympia on the 16th for a Tribal Retrocession meeting, and an assortment of other meetings here in town in between.
Off to build fence, fill water, dig a ditch to run power out to the pens, and run to town for some truck parts. Have a great day everyone.
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November 1, 2011
There are only 26 days until Special Session and we have about 90 days worth of work to do. We've been busy getting fence built, cattle hauled and finally got all the hay done for the year. We've even managed to get a little duck hunting in as well. The picture is from the other day and if you look close enough you will see there are two dogs in the picture. The pups are doing great, especially only being 6 months old.
It sounds like the House Democrats are going to try and put a tax increase to the voters through a Referendum in February or March. We still don't have a lot of details on what it will contain, but there's a possibility that it could be a 1.5 cent increase in sales tax. Not good news for the taxpayers of Washington. Did you know that Washington State is still receiving more revenue in this biennium than it did in the last? As crazy as it sounds, had the Democrat majority not increased spending by approximately $4.0 billion for the 2011-13 biennium, we wouldn't be facing a budget crisis. Now the Governor and Democrat majority want to make the budget deficit political and have proposed cuts that will harm rural Washington more urban Washington.
The next couple of weeks will be busy ones, with several meetings and one more trip to Olympia before Special Session. Next week I'll be in Goldendale on Thursday to meet with the Chamber, meeting with Wapato School District on the 14th, off to Olympia on the 16th for a Tribal Retrocession meeting, and an assortment of other meetings here in town in between.
Off to build fence, fill water, dig a ditch to run power out to the pens, and run to town for some truck parts. Have a great day everyone.
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It sounds like the House Democrats are going to try and put a tax increase to the voters through a Referendum in February or March. We still don't have a lot of details on what it will contain, but there's a possibility that it could be a 1.5 cent increase in sales tax. Not good news for the taxpayers of Washington. Did you know that Washington State is still receiving more revenue in this biennium than it did in the last? As crazy as it sounds, had the Democrat majority not increased spending by approximately $4.0 billion for the 2011-13 biennium, we wouldn't be facing a budget crisis. Now the Governor and Democrat majority want to make the budget deficit political and have proposed cuts that will harm rural Washington more urban Washington.
The next couple of weeks will be busy ones, with several meetings and one more trip to Olympia before Special Session. Next week I'll be in Goldendale on Thursday to meet with the Chamber, meeting with Wapato School District on the 14th, off to Olympia on the 16th for a Tribal Retrocession meeting, and an assortment of other meetings here in town in between.
Off to build fence, fill water, dig a ditch to run power out to the pens, and run to town for some truck parts. Have a great day everyone.
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
October 23, 2011
So far the weather has been holding and it looks like we may actually get our wet hay up without much further delay. It has been an incredible frustrating fall, but we'll make it through it. We spent most of last week building fence around our winter pasture. It's been slow going ... tearing out the old fence and putting in 5 new wires, but we're getting there.
We had a great opening weekend of duck season and the pups did a great job. This weekend ... not a single duck in the area. The irrigation canals were drained this week and I suspect the ducks are feeding in those instead of the ponds. The pups had a rough morning yesterday ... it's tough keeping two 5-1/2 old pups focused when they get bored from no ducks to retrieve.
I had the opportunity to speak at the Perry Tech graduation last week for the Electrical Technology and Instrumentation classes. What a great honor. I also got to tour the new Welding Lab area at Perry Tech ... very, very nice facility.
This week I'm headed over to Olympia on Thursday for a Caucus Retreat on Friday. I'll get to go to Cabela's too ... hehehehe, time for goodies.
My lovely, kind and extremely supportive wife's birthday is tomorrow ... she's turning 29 again! Make sure a wish her a Happy Birthday.
It's time to head out, fill water troughs and keep building fence. Have a great day and week everyone.
#fence #ducks #Perry #Tech #Cabela's #hay #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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We had a great opening weekend of duck season and the pups did a great job. This weekend ... not a single duck in the area. The irrigation canals were drained this week and I suspect the ducks are feeding in those instead of the ponds. The pups had a rough morning yesterday ... it's tough keeping two 5-1/2 old pups focused when they get bored from no ducks to retrieve.
I had the opportunity to speak at the Perry Tech graduation last week for the Electrical Technology and Instrumentation classes. What a great honor. I also got to tour the new Welding Lab area at Perry Tech ... very, very nice facility.
This week I'm headed over to Olympia on Thursday for a Caucus Retreat on Friday. I'll get to go to Cabela's too ... hehehehe, time for goodies.
My lovely, kind and extremely supportive wife's birthday is tomorrow ... she's turning 29 again! Make sure a wish her a Happy Birthday.
It's time to head out, fill water troughs and keep building fence. Have a great day and week everyone.
#fence #ducks #Perry #Tech #Cabela's #hay #Rep #David #Taylor #15th #District
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Monday, October 17, 2011
October 17, 2011
Duck season opened this weekend with a bang ... dang, I'm funny. At a little over 5 months old Ruger did better than I could have hoped. Blind retrieves, open water retrieves and open field retrieves and he sat quietly in the blind without trouble. His best retrieve came yesterday. We were packed up and sitting by the trucks with a small group of ducks landed back by the blind. We jumped them and put one down, but it landed about 150 yards away and across the canal ... YIKES! We had it marked, so we drove over and started looking for it. It was an open field next to a thick creek bottom and after about 10 minutes of not finding the duck Ruger started getting "birdy" and suddenly found the bird. What a great weekend with the pup.
We've had a busy couple of weeks. Rain, rain and more rain, not good with hat down. We finally got two fields dry enough to bale ... it's not perfect, but the cows will eat it. We'll be working on fence all week and will start hauling cows home next weekend. I still can't believe it's almost November ... where did the year go?
I attended the third Tribal Retrocession Work Group Meeting last week in Olympia. The topic, Criminal Retrocession. I still have a lot of questions and concerns about the state retroceeding criminal jurisdiction to the FBI, BIA and tribes.
I'll be speaking at Perry Tech's graduation this week and will be at the Sunnyside Republican Clubs meeting Friday morning. We've got a lot to do before the November 28th Special Session, but we'll get there.
#Ruger #ducks #rain #hay #bale #tribal #retrocession #FBI #BIA #Perry #Tech #Special #Session #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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We've had a busy couple of weeks. Rain, rain and more rain, not good with hat down. We finally got two fields dry enough to bale ... it's not perfect, but the cows will eat it. We'll be working on fence all week and will start hauling cows home next weekend. I still can't believe it's almost November ... where did the year go?
I attended the third Tribal Retrocession Work Group Meeting last week in Olympia. The topic, Criminal Retrocession. I still have a lot of questions and concerns about the state retroceeding criminal jurisdiction to the FBI, BIA and tribes.
I'll be speaking at Perry Tech's graduation this week and will be at the Sunnyside Republican Clubs meeting Friday morning. We've got a lot to do before the November 28th Special Session, but we'll get there.
#Ruger #ducks #rain #hay #bale #tribal #retrocession #FBI #BIA #Perry #Tech #Special #Session #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
October 4, 2011
Rain, rain go away and don't come back until my hay is done! Ugh, the weather is not cooperating and neither is the equipment. We bought a "new" used rake and are already having problems with it. Not good news with the rain we're getting. We still have about 40 acres down with another 20 still to cut. Stupid weather!
Molly and I went to Spokane Valley last weekend where I spoke at a private property rights seminar. The program focused on shoreline and critical area regulations and was really well done. A portion covered the science, another covered the legal issues and I covered policies and politics. The folks who attended asked great questions and are really well informed.
We've got a small load of heifers coming in this weekend and will be sending a load of fresh roping steers to the westside later this month. We've got about 50 acres we need to get fenced before winter gets here, but that should go fairly easily assuming we don't run into new and exciting problems. :-)
Waterfowl season is less then 2 weeks away and I can't wait to get Ruger out for the first time. He's still a little young for "big" water, but he's doing great and ready for short, shallow water hunts. Last night I worked him with a couple of scented dummies, hidden in thick grass. We walked around the pasture and when he caught scent, he quartered ground until he found the dummy. It was really cool to watch.
I only have a couple of meetings this week, bu next week is going to be a busy one. I have to go over to Olympia at least one day (maybe two) and have meetings the rest of the week. The Governor recently sent out an email letting the Legislature know she thinks we'll be looking at a $2 million budget problem in November, instead of the $1.3 billion announced a couple of weeks ago. Is waiting until November 28th for a Special Session worth an addition $700 million in deficits? I sure don't think so.
#budget #deficit #2 #million #special #session #waterfowl #hay #rain #CAPR #property #rights #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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Molly and I went to Spokane Valley last weekend where I spoke at a private property rights seminar. The program focused on shoreline and critical area regulations and was really well done. A portion covered the science, another covered the legal issues and I covered policies and politics. The folks who attended asked great questions and are really well informed.
We've got a small load of heifers coming in this weekend and will be sending a load of fresh roping steers to the westside later this month. We've got about 50 acres we need to get fenced before winter gets here, but that should go fairly easily assuming we don't run into new and exciting problems. :-)
Waterfowl season is less then 2 weeks away and I can't wait to get Ruger out for the first time. He's still a little young for "big" water, but he's doing great and ready for short, shallow water hunts. Last night I worked him with a couple of scented dummies, hidden in thick grass. We walked around the pasture and when he caught scent, he quartered ground until he found the dummy. It was really cool to watch.
I only have a couple of meetings this week, bu next week is going to be a busy one. I have to go over to Olympia at least one day (maybe two) and have meetings the rest of the week. The Governor recently sent out an email letting the Legislature know she thinks we'll be looking at a $2 million budget problem in November, instead of the $1.3 billion announced a couple of weeks ago. Is waiting until November 28th for a Special Session worth an addition $700 million in deficits? I sure don't think so.
#budget #deficit #2 #million #special #session #waterfowl #hay #rain #CAPR #property #rights #15th #District #Rep #David #Taylor
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