Long Time Passing
I read in the Wall Street Journal that children born today have a good chance of living until they are 150. Just imagine how...
No Irons In The Fire
Calving heifers, building fence and cleaning out spring boxes, these are a few of my least favorite things. But the hardest chore every year...
High Society
I get a lot of rural newspapers in the mail, mostly ones that run my column. I enjoy reading them but I've noticed they...
Complexification
Currently there are eight saddles in my house and a couple more in my shop. Sadly, these aren't saddles I won team roping but...
Where’d Everybody Go?
I don't get out much these days and the other day I went to the auction market for the first time in a long...
Inside The Box
Column writers, publishers and dogs who like to bite mailmen have a love-hate relationship with the Post Office. They keep us occupied, but at...
What’s That Smell? (Best Of)
I must be going crazy! The dairy boys are having a tough year and I've heard rumors about another whole herd dairy buyout. Quite...
Here’s Mud In Your Eye
Wine tastings are so over. The trendy thing now in California and Europe are dirt tastings in which folks with seemingly too much money...
Then And Now
I'm starting to feel older than dirt. And I swear there is soil in our garden that I knew when it was rocks. Oh,...
Famous Cows
When I grow up I want to be curator of the Cow Hall of Fame. The only problem is I don't think there is...