Country Lifestyles
The many hats of Bill McCalip
By Judy Wade
Husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, telephone lineman, coon hunter, horse breaker and trainer, cutter, mentor to youth and adults, church elder, member of the Navy and the list goes on and on. Bill McCalip has worn many hats, but the one he is most frequently seen wearing is a crisply shaped silver belly.
“I was born on the banks of Red River near Terral, Okla., the fourth child of Charlie and Mary McCalip. I had a $1 million childhood there. One of my earliest memories is seeing a cowboy ride by our house. I said to myself, ‘That’s what I want to do.’ I begged for a horse, but all we had was milk cows. I broke a Jersey calf to ride, and that was as close to a horse as I had,” McCalip said.
When he was 10, he finally got a horse. “I had no saddle so I fell off and fell off, but I learned to ride bareback,” he laughed.
Moving to Oscar, Okla., along the river bottom, the family was 18 miles from town. Pearl Harbor had just been bombed, and with war-time rationing, “We had no tires for the car, so Daddy traded my horse for a tractor,” the would-be cowboy recalled.
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Lacey’s Pantry: Beef Chimichangas
By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1-2 cups vegetable oil
½ cup diced white onion
2 tsp minced garlic
½ TBSP chili powder
¼ tsp oregano
½ tsp ground cumin
1 lb. ground beef
1 tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper
½ to a full can of Rotel tomatoes and green chilis
8 (burrito-sized) flour tortillas, warmed
2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Toppings: salsa, sour cream, guacamole, queso
Directions:
Brown hamburger meat and onions in a large skillet until onions are slightly softened. Add in garlic chili powder, oregano and cumin. Stir and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in Rotel. Cook and stir another five minutes. Set aside.
Warm tortillas in the microwave. On each tortilla, place about ½ cup of meat mixture. Do not overfill. Top with shredded cheese. Fold sides over the meat and cheese, then fold bottom over the sides and roll up. Place all folded chimichangas, seam side down, on a large plate and repeat with remaining tortillas.
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Does John Wayne Have the Answer to Our Discourse?
By Dal Houston
I am terribly saddened by all the argumentative discourse that seems to be going on in today’s world. It seems as though it is no longer enough just to disagree on certain issues. We are expected to classify someone as an enemy if they do not always agree with us on all issues, lest we be considered weak.
To make things even worse, because those who disagree with you are now considered enemies, the sentiment seems to be that it is only fair and proper to destroy them, because they are the enemy, again with the fear of ridicule for being weak if we do not fight.
With all that said, and seemingly unrelated, I am a big John Wayne fan. From watching him dive into his role as a cowboy, to marveling at his time portraying a soldier or appreciating his acting gig as a sailor, there is seldom a week that goes by without me watching at least one
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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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