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: Martha Crump
Most cattle producers can tell you quite a lot about balancing cattle diets for energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals based on the specific needs for their herd and type of operation.
A key factor, and one that is often overlooked, is that how your animals perform is also directly affected by their water intake.
Now many of you may already be thinking “well of course water is necessary, anybody knows that!”
In many years, as September marches into October, we are beginning to experience some return of rainfall. But as many of us know, that is not always the case. Often we are still experiencing hot and dry weather, and water supplies are dwindling.
When we find ourselves experiencing those types of fall conditions, it is critical to not only understand the daily water requirements for cattle, but also the impact that the quality of water can have on herd health and development.
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By: Annette Bridges
A friend and I were recently talking about our husbands. She made a comment that I felt also perfectly described me and my hubby.
“He slows me and I hurry him. I’m sure that is why we do well together,” she said.
“Precisely!” I thought. Why?
Because when two different worlds collide, it can be magical.
No matter what those two different worlds are- a man and a woman with very different personalities, beliefs, or backgrounds, two partners with contrasting passions, strengths, or talents, or when a country boy marries a city girl.
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Watauga, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth, is known for its rich history as a railroad stop, but over the course of the last year, one teen girl has put it on the map for agriculture as well. Emma Harvey has lived in Tarrant County her entire life. Despite being highly involved in her local 4-H chapter, she still felt there was more she could do. In the spring of 2023, she stepped up to the plate to take over the title of Tarrant County Teen Miss Agriculture USA.
“It all started when I put in an application for the teen title here in Tarrant County,” explained Harvey.
The Miss Agriculture USA program is a national non-profit, age-inclusive pageant program that offers both competition and non-competition titles to women dedicated to the promotion of agriculture.
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Photo by Hannah Claxton.
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