Country Lifestyles
Cowboy Culture – Never Cuss A Borrowed Horse
By Clay Reid
The other day I was talking with a young man and I got to giving him a lesson that I learned many moons ago. I went on to tell him to break out his notebook and write it down. Never cuss a borrowed horse.
As he stood there with an odd look on his face, I went on to tell him how one time when I was young, I found myself running short of ponies to ride due to an injury here and there of mine. Well, a man I knew offered a pony of his for me to ride and I told him you bet and thanked him. Now when I took this horse out to work I soon found out that this cayuse was rough, and I mean a rough riding son-of-a-gun and you couldn’t turn him around in a quarter of a mile.
Well, being the dumb knot-head of a kid I was, I soon took the horse back and cussed that horse every chance I got. This is where I was wrong. This man was good enough to loan me a pony free of charge so why in the heck would I want to disrespect him by cussing the service he had provided me and the good nature of him helping me. I know this now, but it didn’t come over night, and I had nobody there to school me on it at the time so I learned it with age.
This young man I was teaching this lesson to had just recently moved to town and was struggling to find day work around town so I gave him a chance and if he made a hand I told him I would spread the word around about his capabilities. Well, shortly after he started helping me I figured out the boy was quite the cowpuncher. He rode a good horse and was quite efficient with the twine (rope).
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While We Were Sleeping
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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Lacey’s Pantry: Strawberry Sorbet
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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A Mountain Out of a Molehill
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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