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		<title>So You Wanna Be A Rancher?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As I was standing on the back of the hay wagon today, forking off 2 tons of hay to the mama cows and their calves, I happened to look up at May Mountain. &#160; It looked like Mount Everest.&#160; &#160; Granted, May’s 11,000 some feet are a pittance compared to Everest’s 29,000, but it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Pyrenees Puppies at Alderspring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our two female Great Pyrenees guard dogs (and family friends) recently had a total of 21 puppies!&#160; These purebred Pyrenees are wonderful dogs, serving well as guardians of both young animals and young children.&#160; We will be selling these puppies through a new website our oldest daughter put together: IdahoPyrenees.com Sophie protecting a newborn calf.]]></description>
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		<title>Winter at Alderspring</title>
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		<title>Goats Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My oldest daughter just posted a bit about the newest additions to the Alderspring menagerie.&#160; I returned from a town day to find 2 baby goats in my laundry room.&#160; It seems every year I have to share my house for a few days with some goat kids in a box. They are pretty cute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Beef Brisket at Alderspring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Dinner. Just those words evoke images of red and green table cloths, sparkling china (the best) and candles amidst greenery at the centerpiece. Maybe a turkey, ham or prime rib roast with all the trimmings as the main course. What about on Alderspring? This year we had Christmas dinner at our older friends, Gordon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas at Alderspring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glenn, a kid, and Amos prepare to feed cattle with “Red” and “Snap”.&#160; &#160; Hope you all had a wonderful Holiday season, however you celebrate it. We celebrate a pretty traditional Christmas here on Alderspring. It starts with the tree, about a week before Christmas Day. We get ours high up in the mountain forests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Collie Puppies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a late and very balmy fall so far, especially for the Idaho mountains in mid-December, but the weather forecasters began to speak about payback time.&#160; They talked about an Arctic air mass bearing down on us like a freight train from the polar regions.&#160; The rail cars were carrying a payload of glacial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.alderspring.com/organic-beef-matters/border-collie-puppies/</link>
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		<title>Springtime on the Ranch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Springtime in the Rockies is not what its cracked up to be.&#160; At least not on idyllic Alderspring. But we finally got a break with some warm weather&#8211;nice break from one snow squall after another.&#160; And the wind quit instead of continuing to feel like Kansas (started wanting to call our border pups Toto).&#160; It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Pyrenees Puppies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pyrenees are important employees on the ranch.&#160; In our remote valley we have predators such as mountain lions, coyotes, and wolves.&#160; The pyrenees are effective protection for the calves and kids that roam our ranch. They’re also beautiful, kind, gentle, and regal.&#160; Can you tell I really like them?&#160; They’re also the cutest thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking a Beef Shank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association A beef shank makes the most amazing stock and stew you could imagine.&#160; Since I am a busy (maybe lazy) cook with lots of people to feed, I use shortcuts when I can.&#160; Here’s an easy stew made with beef shanks.&#160; No marinating, [...]]]></description>
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