Country Lifestyles
When a City Girl Goes Country: Summertime Living
By Annette Bridges
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy,” said no farmer or rancher ever. To be very honest with y’all, summer has become my least favorite season. I do recall a time when summer was highly anticipated with joyful enthusiasm, but that ended after I graduated high school.
Summer on a cattle ranch in Texas is filled with hot days. Since work on a ranch takes place in the great outdoors, hot days means lots of miserable sweat. In my opinion, it is much easier to bundle up and stay warm in the bitter cold of winter than it is to stay cool in the steamy summertime. You simply can not dress light enough when you also need to protect your skin from the dangerous rays of the sun.
I do love the idea of “easy living,” and these days I spend more time than ever before wondering how to achieve it. How would you define an easy life? I decided to Google for more clarity to see if what I long for was actually attainable.
One dictionary defined an easy life as living comfortably without any problems or worries, free from pain, care or anxieties. More definitions included not requiring much labor or effort, not difficult, simple. Interestingly, when you start comparing the meanings of simple and easy, there is much disagreement. It seems they are not necessarily synonymous. I have concluded that what is easy living to some is not so easy to others.
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By Jesse Kader
This month western meets safari with this fun army green jumpsuit. I love a good jumpsuit that is simple but stylish and can be accessorized in so many ways. This one especially caught my eye because of the western yoke detail. See this and more at www.jessesjewelz.com
University of North Texas music students were in awe by Texas Music icon, Lyle Lovett recently during his visit to the Denton campus to share his music and personal secrets on navigating a successful music career.
The four-time Grammy winner has recorded 14 albums and has released 25 singles throughout his illustrious career. He’s also most famous for creating his Large Band consisting of his talented rhythm section and a full horn section.
I too have had the honor of recording with Lyle during my time with Asleep At The Wheel and being a UNT grad, I was pleasantly surprised by this act of good will toward these young musicians.
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By Martha Crump
In the April issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch, I introduced the discussion of what is considered the Biden 30X30 Land Grab via the quiet attempt to push through the formation of Natural Asset Companies. If you are a landowner and have not heard about this, I encourage you to research it for your own protection.
Natural Asset Companies would have been publicly tradable securities that hold rights to, and manage the productivity and ecological benefits of natural assets such as natural forests, marine areas and farmland. They place a value on natural processes. Thanks to the watchful eye of a few, NACs have been stopped for now, but make no mistake, this battle is far from over. According to the American Stewards of Liberty, the Intrinsic Exchange Group is the company responsible for the failed attempt to monetize natural processes via the development of “Natural Asset Companies.”
The New York Times is already helping IEG to set the stage for a rebranding of the idea with the article they ran entitled “Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest In It?” which ran on Feb. 18 of this year. The NYT readily assured their readers that, “Natural asset companies would put a market price on improving ecosystems, rather than on destroying them.” That is a perfect lead-in for IEG as they had already indicated that they would be rebranding the idea in yet another attempt to create the investment vehicle.
To read more, pick up a copy of the May issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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