If you can, look up Mike Rowe’s posts on Facebook. \u00a0Yes, \u00a0that is the Dirty Jobs guy. \u00a0I like following this guy. \u00a0He gets it. \u00a0His latest post about farmers is good. \u00a0Wicked Good! \u00a0The U.S. farmer provides the most abundant, safest and healthiest food supply that the world has ever seen and does it on less land and with more restrictions and requirements. \u00a0He brings up the point that EVERYTHING on the news affects agriculture. \u00a0He is correct. \u00a0Hurricane, freeze, foreign trade, wars, immigration, fuel prices and the list keeps going. \u00a0We can pay these athletes X amount of dollars, but the day is coming when true agriculturists will be a valued commodity. \u00a0It is simple\u2026we all have to eat.<\/p>\n
And since I have been looking on the Socially Transmitted Disease known as Facebook, I love the Donnie Baker video about not trusting the media. \u00a0That dude ain’t right in the head, but he is right. \u00a0Oh, the part about the dude that doesn’t like fake but likes Pamela Anderson\u2026.yeah, I laughed. \u00a0A lot.<\/p>\n
I also saw a post from one of the good Kelln’s about working cattle. \u00a0Becky Kelln was helping my middle brother and his two kids work calves. \u00a0I love it. \u00a0For one, Becky can out work just about anybody. \u00a0Two, I love the fact that these Kelln Kids are taking a break from sports to work cattle. \u00a0My middle brother Jake was an elite athlete. \u00a0If it had a ball, this kid could play it but baseball was the specialty. \u00a0How good? \u00a0All State. \u00a0JUCO and then lots of accolades in sr. college. \u00a0The ball just never bounced his way to make it a career. \u00a0Oh, his wife might have played college basketball as well. \u00a0Yes, these kids are going to be athletes.<\/p>\n
When he was being scouted by the majors, a Kansas City Royals scout called me. \u00a0This was cool. \u00a0He was trying to get the mindset of the family if Jake got drafted. \u00a0Dad was working in the former Soviet Union at the time. \u00a0We are talking mid-90s at this point and Dad was instrumental in helping the new Russia develop an ag credit program. \u00a0So, I got the phone call. \u00a0I told that scout that there was no worries signing Jake Kelln. \u00a0I said, “Give him a bus ticket or plane ticket to where he needs to report plus a roll of copenhagen and that kid is ready to play ball.” \u00a0The scout laughed and said, “You are the second person to tell me that.” \u00a0I then had a conversation about why it is harder to sign middle class white kids versus hispanics or even rich white kids. \u00a0This scout allowed that the middle class family is more likely to try for more signing bonus money whereas the others don’t care—just play ball. \u00a0Jake could have made it but for two problems—the others, as we now know, were juiced. \u00a0And then he had an accident that damaged an eye. \u00a0Hard to play ball with one good eye. \u00a0Although, I think that he still could.<\/p>\n
I tell you this because back about 1988, I remember working a load of cattle for C.Q. Kelln, my grandpa, at his place near Higgins, TX. \u00a0Dad made Jake help us. \u00a0It was a cold day in early April. \u00a0Jake did NOT want to be there. \u00a0He had his hands buried in his pockets. \u00a0Then, Dad made Jake start cutting calves. There was some stern discussions. \u00a0Jake was like “give me that knife” and went to cutting calves. \u00a0He then wanted to keep that job as he allowed that “his hands were warm”. \u00a0And now, that athlete manages a large Co-oP and runs cattle. \u00a0It all comes full circle. \u00a0We all have to eat. \u00a0Of course, this dude, much like the youngest brother and myself have been surrounded by strong work ethic, morals and the opportunities to work towards goals. \u00a0Then, we found hot wives that are of similar mind sets. \u00a0It is a simple recipe.<\/p>\n
And we aren’t the only ones. \u00a0If you are reading this stuff, you are too. \u00a0I deal with lots of good kids that are backed with work ethic, values, and morals. \u00a0As do you. \u00a0The media just doesn’t spend time on the positives. \u00a0And yes, there are positives. \u00a0Lots and lots of them.<\/p>\n
Speaking of simple recipes, I had the honor of eating a home-made chicken pot pie on this fine evening. \u00a0Tammy is taking a class. \u00a0Duke doesn’t cook for others and my mom made me a pot pie. GREAT! \u00a0It only took 30 minutes to cook and then 4 hours to cool down enough to eat. \u00a0The heat holding properties of a pot pie should be studied by elite scientists. \u00a0Unreal! <\/span><\/p>\n People, it is all good and tomorrow will be better. \u00a0If not, we will wish it would have been. Have a good one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you can, look up Mike Rowe’s posts on Facebook. \u00a0Yes, \u00a0that is the Dirty Jobs guy. \u00a0I like following this guy. \u00a0He gets it. \u00a0His latest post about farmers is good. \u00a0Wicked Good! \u00a0The U.S. farmer provides the most abundant, safest and healthiest food supply that the world has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1843,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/1843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}