Country Lifestyles
Enjoy the Ride – Casey Pilgreen : January 2018 Profile
By Jessica Crabtree
“Hold your head up and enjoy your ride. Hey cowboy, just enjoy your ride,” is the refrain to Casey Pilgreen’s hit country song “Enjoy the Ride,” which doubles as his album title. It is a mantra Pilgreen lives by and truly embodies.
Pilgreen was born and raised in Oklahoma, residing in the rural farming and ranching town of Waurika. “I am proud of my raising. It turned me into who I am,” Pilgreen admitted. As a youth Pilgreen attended school there, was active in his local FFA chapter and worked alongside his PaPa Harmon Lindesmith, who is a farmer and rancher, as well as his dad Ralph Pilgreen, a farmer, rancher, and order buyer for cattle.
In the thick of things, so to speak, Pilgreen’s family traveled to the NFR while still in Oklahoma City so that their young son could take in the rodeo and bull fighter Rex Dunn. An aspiration of Pilgreen’s was to fight bulls; never doing so, he did try his hand at riding bulls.
As a young man, Pilgreen had dreams of becoming a veterinarian due to all the influences around him. However, at the age of 10 he began playing the trumpet for the Waurika School band. An almost immediate talent, as a freshman, he and his National FFA band-mates were selected to play at the National FFA Convention in Kansas City, Mo. for keynote speaker George W. Bush. FFA was a huge part and contributor to Pilgreen’s life. Showing a great interest in country music, he asked for a guitar at 17 for Christmas and began lessons, even fiddling a little with the fiddle with coach Leon Gibbs.
Once graduating high school, Pilgreen had his sights set on Oklahoma State, but chose to begin his academic career at “UCLA”….(the University Of Cameron Lawton America). There Pilgreen completed his basics and prepared to transfer to vet school at Stillwater.
To read more pick up a copy of the January 2018 NTFR issue. To subscribe call 940-872-5922.
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.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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