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Confused farm guard dog

Back in the mid to late 1900s rural salesmen were as common as fleas on a dog. They traveled the dusty or muddy rural...

Coyote tales & ears

These nice spring days in the Kansas Flint Hills bring back fond childhood memories -- about coyotes. Yep, coyotes. Why? Because coyotes were the...

Instantaneous Irritating Itch

At my age, seldom does a week go by that I accidentally don't do sumpthin' that is what I call "chuckle worthy." It happened...

R.I.P.O.F.F.

Our new home is close to Tuttle Creek federal reservoir. It wuz built in the late 1950s to control flood damage to land and...

Hard lessons in farm safety

Anyone who's been involved in food production knows that farming and ranching rank near the top as the most dangerous profession. Nearly every aggie...

Fake spring?

  I think I'm being taken in for a sucker by Mother Nature. She's been dishing up so many warm sunny days in early March...

An Ugly Aggie Spectacle

I'd bet good money I've told this true aggie story once before in my column, but it had to be around 35 years ago...

Animal welfare on steroids

Back when we lived in Iowa, our nearest neighbors owned an acreage that they dubbed Last Chance Ranch. And, it wuz an apt name...

Plan A ain’t workin’

Nevah and I recently had bizness in the Kansas City area. At my age, I despise driving in big city traffic, but we needed...

Whimsical reminiscing

  One of the obvious advantages of my living to an old age is that it provides me with a lot of life to look...
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