Country Lifestyles
Cowboy Culture — The iPod
By Clay Reid
Let me tell you folks about my boy Ace, the last child of my five crazy bunch of kids. Ace is the intellectual. I can assure you intellectual is not a word synonymous with the Reid name. Every now and then, there is that one sheep in the herd that comes along that ain’t exactly black, but he sure has a lot of grey to him. This is the guy we call Ace.
Ace was named after ole man Ace Reid of Electra, Texas, my dad’s uncle and father of the great Cowboy Cartoonist, Ace Reid, Jr. Old man Ace was my father’s surrogate dad when his dad died on the operating table after an oil field accident. He was always larger than life for me when I was a kid, and I loved that name Ace.
So here we are back to my good ole boy Ace, the intellectual. The kid who, from day one, we knew might be a little different when he was lying in the living room floor doing a word search at three years old. When all of a sudden he casually said to his mother, “Mom, this puzzle has me baffled.” Then he paused and said, “Oh, that means confused, by the way.” He was three years old.
Mom was upset that the boy had little faith in her actually knowing what it meant. I agreed with Ace, just saying.
Ace has always been very creative as well, and one day when he was maybe eight years old, he drags his mother into his room to show her his replica of the Kitty Hawk (first airplane) that he built out of computer paper and scotch tape. The plane is hanging from the ceiling from three pieces of thread. He then tells her all the facts and figures of the Wright Brothers’ invention.
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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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