Country Lifestyles
Cowboy Culture
By Clay Reid
Years ago after I got a divorce from my practice wife, I decided I was no longer going to be a slave to a job that when I woke up every morning I dreaded going to. Brother John Gaither, a man who I knew as a very wise man, told me to find a job you love and you never have to work a day in your life. Boy was he right.
When me and my practice wife split the sheets all I was left with was a two-man dome tent and an old Chevy pickup that had seven bullet holes down the side of it (me and my buddies shot it while frog hunting, then told all the kids in town that the Indians got after us).
Well I thought at the time that was all I needed, but apparently the good Lord above must have thought different because the ex-wife repoed the truck a few weeks later and a sudden thunderstorm took care of the tent after day two.
I, however, was not to be discouraged and soon after ended up getting a lil’ bigger tent and set up camp just west of town on a buddy’s two acres.
It was there that I had decided I was going to cowboy for a living, even if it killed me. So I purchased a lil’ two-year-old filly, I called Suzy, for $700 and a saddle for $25 at Defoors Pawn Shop in Wichita Falls. What kinda saddle can you get for $25 you ask? Not much at all I can assure you. To read more pick up a copy of the August 2016 issue.
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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