Time to take the flocks up to summer grazing and the highway is the best path. The state Rangeland Resources Commission helps coordinate the move which will be repeated in the fall when the flocks return to winter grazing. It's just a short distance up and across the highway anyway.

I post this because just last night I was talking with an acquaintance from California and his Santa Fe girlfriend and they were disdaining "cow and sheep" country ... yet they want to move here. So I sent them this news article.

Yes, I consider the guy a business friend - but stay where you are. At least keep your "I'm from Santa Fe" girlfriend away.

Eagle used to be a remote small town on an island far away from Boise city. It's now a special (expensive) "place" within the metro area. But it also has the Old State Saloon that celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" in June to the discomfort of those preferring "Gay Pride Month" so the Boise blue hasn't fully infested the area.

Of course, any such happening has to turn into an "event" - I imagine sometime in the near future they will sell tickets in a park celebrating "our agricultural past" ... while outlawing the actual movement of livestock. Someone will sue for blocking the highway.

But still ... for now, we remain sheep and cow country once out of the metro area.

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