It’s Thursday morning. Just another day. Trying to get geared up to start breeding some does. Need to address making some hay. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any rain to help this cause. Not much to write, so have a good one.
I wasn’t planning on going to Stillwater this weekend. But….the Dragon Lady was headed that way..whether I went or not. When, she told me that, I said, “Hey, take my pickup and on the way back….pick up that doe kid that I bought on Pfeiffer’s online sale.” That went over
Bullying is a hot topic issue in today’s society. It is not a new issue but there is more attention paid to it. Most people can identify with moments in their lives that they were a victim of or witnessed bullying. Any goat rancher only needs to walk into their
Tomorrow is the first day of school at Shattuck America! I’m actually ready for it to get rolling. Tonight, I finished chores and plopped down to the tv. I flipped through the channels until I landed on the IFC channel, just in time for the start of the 1988 classic
It is a new day as Tammy leaves for High Plains Tech Center for a new year (with a different job title). I head off to teacher meetings for a new year at Shattuck Public Schools. Yes, I know that I told them that I would teach ag for a
Saturday evening here in paradise. It is the eve of Tammy and I moving our youngest to college. So far, so good. He is busy packing his video game consoles. His welding gear is already good to go. Clothes, he hasn’t started packing yet–“Mom, I can have them packed in
I have had more than my share of highlights in the goat industry. No rankings. Just going to list some stuff that has always stuck out to me. –Bingo. I saw him for the first time when he was 3+ years old. That wasn’t just a good goat. That
Oklahomashowgoats.com released their 2019 scholarship recipients. Oooohh wow! That is an impressive set of young people and there is one that I don’t know. But I do forever more know that those other 5 are wicked good. Seth Hilfiker–Hadn’t heard of him before but was very impressed when I searched
Not some philosophical question about your existence. Just a question that I have asked students during the past 20 years of teaching ag ed in Oklahoma. Why are you here? Hunh?! Why are you in this class? I want to learn to weld. Or, I want to go to the
When we got done with getting our asses handed to us at OYE, we didn’t load the wethers on the taco wagon. We brought both goats and a pair of hair sheep home. The two hair sheep found homes fairly quick. Good and Cheap makes for a quick sale. The
