Country Lifestyles
Look out! Here comes the next generation – Part 2
By Judy Wade
This is the second in a series of articles about up and coming young cowboys and cowgirls.
If heritage is any indicator, Hadley and Cooper Gee have promising futures in the world of rodeo. They are the children of Mickey and Amber Gee of Dean.
Mickey was a three-time NFR qualifier in steer wrestling, winning the World Champion title in 1999. He has won all the big ones including Calgary and Cheyenne. Although he claims to be retired, he still enters a rodeo occasionally.
Mickey’s father, Dennis Gee, (“Papa” to the kids) was a PRCA steer wrestler and much in demand as a hazer. In fact, he hazed for Mickey in the 2003 NFR. Mickey’s stepmother Donna (affectionately called “Honey”) is a well-known amateur barrel racer.
Amber, Children’s Miracle Network Specialist at United Regional Health Care System, doesn’t rodeo, but likes to ride when she has time. Her mother was a barrel racer and rodeo queen.
Eleven-year-old Hadley is a sixth grader at Henrietta Junior High where she likes social studies, playing volleyball, and is trying out for UIL events. She began rodeoing and won her first buckle when she was four. She was the 2011 Archer County Petite Rodeo Queen, and in 2012 she placed in the 3-D at the Martha Josey Championship Barrel Racing Clinic and also attended a Charmayne James Barrel Racing Clinic in 2013.
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.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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