Country Lifestyles
Cowboy Culture
By Clay Reid
Well, I just got back from the UIL state tournament of softball this weekend in Austin, Texas. I was there watching my little country girl Lindy, who is just a freshman at Archer City High School. She was there trying to bring back a gold medal. Even though they came up a little short to the eventual state champions, we sure are proud of her.
The neat thing about Lindy was she had a choice going into high school to either play softball or baseball. You see, she had been playing baseball since she was in the third grade with a really good group of boys from Archer City, a group that had won several league championships as well as tournament championships. Lindy played catcher and various infield positions and was the number two hitter on this team when she finished her eighth grade season. She said she liked playing with boys because there wasn’t as much drama with them, which I found hard to believe, but if she wanted to play baseball that was just fine with me.
Her greatest moment in baseball though, has to be the night she was playing in a championship game in Wichita Falls. The team we were playing had beaten us out the year before and were our nemesis. They had a good coach who had always been really nice.
You see, with the other team leading 7-5, the Outlaws (her team name) had runners on second base and third base with two outs at their last at bat. And the mighty Lindy Loo was up to bat.
That’s when the other coach called time and slowly walked out to the pitcher’s mound to give his pitcher some words of encouragement, I suppose. When he was done, he walked back to his dugout, but halfway there he stopped and turned back toward his pitcher and spoke these words as he pointed to Lindy at the plate, “Put this ponytail on the bench where she belongs. She ain’t got no business out here with these boys anyway.”
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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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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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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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