Too good not to share on this day..................thank you Victor and Laurel

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Thanksgiving, 2024

 

From Ghost Ranch to your crib, all the blessings of hard work, faith, health and goodwill to you and yours.  My Christmas wish list includes having a few tons of female deer removed from the ranch!

The chart never lies!

 

"The stocks don't know you own them and wouldn't behave any differently if they did" 

As my account goes into NEW HIGH GROUND almost daily, I owe this man tremendous gratitude.

CANCER

My Grandfather.

I loved him.   The only time I heard him cry was when he told me he had cancer.   I know he loved me.   I never heard him say it.

HORSE CREEK FENCING

I would like to publicly thank Horse Creek Fencing for such outstanding work on the Ghost Ranch.

Buck Ward and his wonderful wife, Tricia have done excellent work.

They do a couple of things very well.    First, they tell the ranch owner what they are going to do.  Second, they do it.

No fluff, no excuses, no bullshit, no cutting corners.

They simply do what they say they are going to do.

If you need fencing don't hesitate to contact Buck Ward at Horse Creek Fencing.   His phone number is 406-570-6607. 

Serenity and Stillness with Electric!

 Packing out a hefty doe with electricity!

The Metzgers, Mel and Judy

 

When you walk into the Melstone Bar & Cafe in Melstone, Montana and remember you have been eating there since 1983! 

CNH Long n Strong!

 

PERSPECTIVE

Life can be rather harsh.  Life can be beautiful!  The vistas will always be there long after you are. 

It doesn't matter whether you are looking up or looking down.

If your perspective, attitude, optimism, and energy aren't in sync not much else is in your life.

ELK & LIFE

Hunting elk can be deliriously wild!  It can be so easy.  It can be and is usually very hard.  It often takes you where your soul is free.  It can take you to sights and sounds not often heard or seen by people you know.  It can take you to lofty perches, to ample evidence of prey and predator, to skies so clear they make you feel you are in the next galaxy!

LIFE, 2024, MONTANA

This magnificent cottonwood tree defines the Ghost Ranch.  At Ghost Ranch, our attention to personal detail of the land and habitat drove our attitude of stewardship because we were of one mind that land had become a part of the family.  For many people, their Montana ranch changes them. Part of that is you get to Montana and start meeting good people who aren’t trying to impress anyone.  We very seldom had a conversation in Montana with someone where we did the whole, “Well what did you do”? It just isn’t important in Montana.  A big change from the big city in most of America. It becomes about kids, about the choice of lifestyle. You hear people talk about their Montana ranches and how they feel they impact lives and the world from their chunk of land, great sunrises and sunsets, and their closest neighbors being deer and elk.

You get to observe things that not many people in the world get to see. A bald eagle catching a fish in front of you, walking out your front door bumping into a big buck. These are not made up but actual occurrences, weekly if not daily, on the Ghost Ranch. 

Montana, Ghost Ranch

Owning a Montana hunting ranch is hard work. Many don’t realize just how much hard work it entails. A ranch will teach you respect for putting in a hard day’s work. Life gets in your soul and I’ve been told numerous times it changes your outlook on dealing with stress and urban life. I know it did for me.

GHOST RANCH, MONTANA

Running a Montana ranch teaches you about having to make hard decisions.  If you own a hunting ranch you may have to decide which wild animal to take to improve genetics. What crop to plant to help increase the population of certain species? It can teach skinning skills that have swayed kids into wanting to become surgeons. Nature is a fantastic schoolroom filled with problem-solving skills and lessons. Some of those decisions give you instantaneous feedback, while others may take decades to decipher if you chose right. Those skills are transferable to any job on this earth.

AGENDA 47

Donald J. Trump needs to initiate AGENDA 47.

The abolishment/overhaul/rewiring of leadership in the rancid, rotten, corrupt DOJ, FBI, FDA, etc.

 

Coyote............

This furry killer reminded me of a certain politician.   

Old, angry, not going anywhere from now on.  

Died on November 5, 2024.

Saving fawns one coyote at a time.

May Creator bless America and Donald J. Trump.

 

Greed & Fear, Pain & Pleasure, Bull vs. Bear

All bull markets start with investors crowding churches, synagogues and temples around the world.  At the country clubs, the Hamptons, Palm Beach, LaJolla, Greenwich a united chorus can be heard:  “Lord, forgive me for having overindulged myself in what turned out to be a bear market.  I got carried away, a bit too greedy…pardon me Lord I will never buy another high P/E stock again, mea culpa, no more Nifty 50 stocks or the latest, hottest Mutual Fund in Money Magazine.”   

It is always darkest before the dawn and then a loud and forceful voice is heard coming from the alter from those houses of worship:   

Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in the stock market.  As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with the bulls for most investors get exactly what they expect from the stock market.  Speak your truth quietly and clearly; but don’t listen to your salesman broker for they too have their mortgage to be paid with your commissions.  Avoid loud and aggressive persons (Jim Cramer) for they are vexations to the spirit.  If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser investors than yourself.  Enjoy your profits as well as your losses.  Keep interested in your portfolio, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.  Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.  But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many fundamentalists strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.  Be yourself.  Especially do not avoid the technician, those closing prints are usually real traders not algorithms.  Neither be cynical about making money; for in the face of losses and despair it is perennial and as green as grass.  Take kindly the counsel of your investment advisor, gracefully surrendering your hard-earned cash.  Nurture your mental stops to shield you against sudden market declines.  But do not distress yourself with imagining a $100 stock disintegrating to $15 in three days.  Many fears are born of bear markets.  Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.  You are a child of Wall Street no less, not poorer or richer, you have the right to be here.  And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt Wall Street is unfolding as it should.  Therefore, be at peace with the stock market.  The stocks don’t know you own them and wouldn’t behave any differently if they did.  Whatever you conceive your investment approach to be in the noisy confusion of life on Wall Street, keep peace with your soul.  With all it’s sham, drudgery and broken dreams, the stock market is still a beautiful world.  Be careful and strive for profits.

 

An updated version of DESIDERATA, which was a prose poem by Max Ehrmann about attaining happiness in life, updated by Dean Parisian about the stock market in 2018.        

Donald J. Trump, 45 - 47

I am like Trump.  Tired of winning.  My portfolio is up HUGELY today on the back of the Trump victory.

Democrats got their ass kicked.  They had it in their pocket.  The wild child, Tim Walz, didn't help their cause.  Amazing that Minnesota has such a loser as its Governor.

The Democratic machine was at its zenith and they still got their ass kicked.  

They had complete control of the media 

They had complete control of our federal law enforcement agencies 

They had corrupt politicians, district attorneys and judges

They had all the celebrities 

They paid for influencers 

They relentlessly censored us

They controlled the voting machines 

They imported millions of new voters 

They had unlimited surveillance over everyone 

They had lobbyists 

They had BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street 

They had control of our legal system 

They had control of public school systems 

They had control of universities 

They had control of the military 

They had control of homeland security

They had control of hundreds of NGOS 

They had complete control of the financial markets 

They controlled our regulation agencies 

They had more money 

They controlled foreign policy

They taxed us to death 

They flooded our social media with bots and trolls 

They controlled Big Tech 

They controlled Google 

They controlled the talk shows, radio shows, magazines and broadcasting licenses 

They had the largest corporations behind them

They had decades of experience 

The military-industrial complex was behind them 

They had data centers running prediction models 

They had all of that

And they still lost

GHOST RANCH, MONTANA

Over the last decade many people have asked why we named our ranch on the Yellowstone River in Montana, the "GHOST RANCH".

This picture answers the question. 

Election Day. 2024

We have a country to save.

A long list of why you shouldn't vote for Kamala Harris:

• Opened our borders 

• Supports a fracking ban 

• Backed mass amnesty 

• Said illegal aliens aren't criminals 

• Championed a ban on gas cars 

• Covered up Biden's cognitive decline 

• Praised Defund the Police • Bragged about ending cash bail 

• Admitted she's a radical leftist 

• Called for abolishing ICE 

• Compared ICE to the KKK 

• Co-sponsored the Green New Deal 

• Backed free healthcare for illegals 

• Denied illegal immigration is a crisis 

• Fakes accents 

• Called young Americans stupid 

• Wants to pack the Supreme Court 

• Voted for the Inflation Expansion Act 

• Plagiarized multiple times 

• Supported a plastic straw ban 

• Abolish private health insurance 

• Defended sanctuary cities 

• $25,000 for illegals to buy homes 

• Helped bail out BLM rioters 

• Believes "don't" is a foreign policy 

• Botched Afghanistan withdrawal 

• $750 for hurricane victims 

• Over 10 million border crossings 

• 20.5% increase in overall prices 

• Largest capital gains tax hike in history 

• Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray 

This is our chance to Save America!

How it's going................

 

I am pretty sure this is the big male coyote I watched chase a fawn across a hay field the other day.   He has dined on his last fawn at Ghost Ranch!