Archive for October, 2009

Farm and ranch work does not appear to be obvious to the meanest intelligence. I’m going to regale you with some tales of our experiences based upon hiring men with military backgrounds in need of stable, happy, long-term employment who try very hard. They’re darlings, but some of the mistakes they make would never be duplicated by a six-year-old reared in a bucolic environment.

What does all this history have to do with the mess in which we find ourselves today? I may have “lived” it but I’m an old guy. The vast majority of readers only know of these events via dry history books. Why even worry about it? I’m sure you know the old adage: Those that fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. That’s “why.” The operative word here is “understand.”