Change takes time, and farmers and ranchers are absolute pros when it comes to playing the long game.

Seventy-two percent. That’s the average return on investment the flyer in my mailbox was promising if I installed new windows.

A while back, my wife and I were chatting with a female family member about the relentless passage of time. Nothing super deep or existential; just run-of-the-mill stuff like, “Can you believe how fast time flies?” and, “The kids are getting so grown up.”

Something I love about the nativity is that, despite being strangers from different walks of life, this group of people is united in this moment – gathered together to celebrate a child’s birth.

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As a calf roper on the high school rodeo team in the early aughts, I used to scoff at other teenagers’ inability to throw a calf on the end of a rope. Countless kids would throw a beautiful loop, dismount gracefully, jet down the rope, and … struggle. “Hapless” is the word that comes to mind. 

You’ve been there, trying not to make your eyerolls too terribly obvious, as the guy who always, always has to make dang sure everyone knows just how much of a cowboy he is asserts control of the situation.
     

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ll know that in most places, for most folks, times are tough. According to the national drought monitor as of Aug. 2, 2022, 43.16% of the U.S. and 51.39% of the lower 48 states are experiencing drought.