Expert assistance is needed, I’d opine, to help us lesser minds figure out why part-time farming is so widely viewed with disdain or embarrassment by four categories of citizens: those who farm for a living, those who farm for a tax-loss, those who farm for image and/or entertainment, and everyone else.

The phrase “gentleman farmer”is meant […]

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Q: What’s fifty feet long, shuffles, and smells of urine?
A: Line dancing at the old age home.

I stole the joke from Prairie Home Companion. Garrison Keillor should know better. He’s no spring chicken himself. He’ll be shuffling along in the line dance soon enough. So will I.

There is nothing funny about getting old, especially when […]

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Sam Guy is my grain guy. He is also the guy that will open the store early if you need something for your animals. Last winter, one of my sheep, Tiny, was very pregnant with twins, had developed Ketosis and needed glycol to save her life. My vet was out, but Sam had […]

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Numerous high profile sex offender cases have placed our state in national headlines for several years. The legislature has amended laws a little at a time, never quite catching up to the progress of other states in these matters, even though many good strides were made to improve our offender […]

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In theory, operating by a black and white sense of morals seems like it wouldn’t be that hard, and who among us doesn’t believe that sexual predators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? Unfortunately, these standards, such as would be imposed by “Jessica’s Law” carry unintended […]

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