Monthly Archives: November 2011

Herd animals detecting magnetic field

I was reading that there was a study done about animals detecting the earth’s magnetic field.  The study showed that cows and deer tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.  The scientists say they are surprised that hunters and herdsmen and farmers didn’t notice it.  Who says farmers didn’t notice it?  Did they ask any farmers?  Maybe farmers noticed it but were too busy farming to care about something like that and get all excited about it and report it [...]

Mending fences

Well yesterday was a little more work than I had planned on.  Some drunk lost control of his truck and ran off the road and through one of my fences.  Some of the cattle escaped the pasture.  So I had to spend several hours rounding up the escapees and moving them to a different pasture while I mended the broken fence.  This happens from time to time, so I always have the materials on hand to mend the fences, but [...]

Customer Satisfaction Surveys

With money so tight, all the way around and across the board, as consumers we are all looking for ways to save money, while businesses are searching for ways to drum up business and bring our hard earned money into their bank accounts. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not dissing anyone running a business, just stating a hard fact. It seems that customer satisfaction surveys are a growing way for companies to hear how they are doing as well [...]

Used Parts are Good for the Environment

As someone that likes to take in consideration the environment when ever possible or able to do, I like to use used parts for things that are in need of repair. Used car parts are a great in many ways, availability, cost effective, and good for the environment as well. The days are gone that you have to go roaming through several distant junk yards in an effort to locate your desperately needed used car parts for your vehicles, what a difference [...]