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Cowboy Culture — The iPod
By Clay Reid
Let me tell you folks about my boy Ace, the last child of my five crazy bunch of kids. Ace is the intellectual. I can assure you intellectual is not a word synonymous with the Reid name. Every now and then, there is that one sheep in the herd that comes along that ain’t exactly black, but he sure has a lot of grey to him. This is the guy we call Ace.
Ace was named after ole man Ace Reid of Electra, Texas, my dad’s uncle and father of the great Cowboy Cartoonist, Ace Reid, Jr. Old man Ace was my father’s surrogate dad when his dad died on the operating table after an oil field accident. He was always larger than life for me when I was a kid, and I loved that name Ace.
So here we are back to my good ole boy Ace, the intellectual. The kid who, from day one, we knew might be a little different when he was lying in the living room floor doing a word search at three years old. When all of a sudden he casually said to his mother, “Mom, this puzzle has me baffled.” Then he paused and said, “Oh, that means confused, by the way.” He was three years old.
Mom was upset that the boy had little faith in her actually knowing what it meant. I agreed with Ace, just saying.
Ace has always been very creative as well, and one day when he was maybe eight years old, he drags his mother into his room to show her his replica of the Kitty Hawk (first airplane) that he built out of computer paper and scotch tape. The plane is hanging from the ceiling from three pieces of thread. He then tells her all the facts and figures of the Wright Brothers’ invention.
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By Martha Crump
That old adage, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.,” may have some basis in truth when applied to minor situations. However, when what you don’t know is presented in the form of a “Trojan Horse” and is what amounts to an incredible attempt to fleece American property rights, it becomes a different story altogether.
To put this unbelievable tale together, we need to step back to Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order which pledged commitment to help restore balance on public lands and waters, to create jobs, and to provide a path to align the management of America’s public lands and waters with our nation’s climate, conservation, and clean energy goals.
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By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
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By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
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