I know that I haven’t been writing much lately. \u00a0I just haven’t had a muse that inspired me to perform “my artwork”. \u00a0Which maybe, just maybe that means that I haven’t been into the barley & hops? \u00a0No. \u00a0I still have a few of those from time to time.<\/p>\n
One regular reader told me that he couldn’t “go” on a regular basis lately. \u00a0His morning routine consists of reading this blog and there hasn’t been much reading so his morning constitutional has been out of whack. \u00a0Constipated. \u00a0I apologize.<\/p>\n
Basically, my muse has just been so dang busy, that well–I haven’t been inclined to or inspired to sit down at the keyboard and type.<\/p>\n
And now that I am hitting the keyboard, the letter K on this keyboard brings up a question. \u00a0Just how long can honey in a keyboard continue to be sticky? \u00a0 The answer is obviously years.<\/p>\n
Basically, I have been reading–a lot. \u00a0Like several books. \u00a0A devotional book and a sausage making book. \u00a0And at night, I have been watching a lot of cartoons–Star Wars cartoon series. \u00a0I had been avoiding those shows–because they were Star Wars cartoons. \u00a0And now that I watched a couple, they are so well written.<\/p>\n
As I rapidly approach the age of 50, I find myself reflecting on the past years. \u00a0Accomplishments, mistakes, mistakes, other mistakes and the very few things that I did right. \u00a0This blog comes up a lot in my mental reflections. \u00a0I’ve done a lot of good over the years. \u00a0But, I don’t want to be remembered as just some opinionated bastard behind a keyboard. \u00a0Yet, those of you that know me, will agree, I am way more opinionated in real life. \u00a0I’m right. \u00a0And I truly do not \u00a0give a goat’s smelly nut snack who I offend. \u00a0I know there are people HOPING that I don’t type their name. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because I am right.<\/p>\n
To the very core of my soul, I love the art and science of raising kids in combination with livestock. \u00a0And to the very core of my being, I am wrestling with an internal demon of raising kids and livestock in a current stock show environment. \u00a0We are talking Balrog taking down Gandalf kind of match 2 the death. \u00a0I’m prepared to write more about it. \u00a0But now is not the time. \u00a0State to state, show to show–people talk about who is cheating, who is in charge, the politics in place, etc, etc, etc. \u00a0There has to be a correction in the marketplace.<\/p>\n
When? Who? \u00a0Why?<\/p>\n
I can only answer that last question–The Why. \u00a0In the show stock industry, there has to be that Troy Gosney that can describe ads from a 1983 Hampshire Herdsman magazine. \u00a0And can talk the damnedest set of reasons over Christmas trees–bookface him and watch it. \u00a050 score. \u00a0A person like Jeff Bedwell that can–from memory–trace back generations of Shorthorn cattle. \u00a0Always, there needs to be a link from the origins to the present. \u00a0There has to be someone that can TRULY describe the genetics and why we do what we do.<\/p>\n
I hate to type this\u2026. yet still love to write this– a Blaine Rue that is SO excited to go work on goats–my goats, your goats, he’ll drive to the end of the Earth to go get goats ready. \u00a0PASSION. \u00a0He loves it. He goes to sleep at night thinking about goat genetics and wakes up thinking about working with good goats.<\/p>\n
I’m real soured on the current state of the stock show industry. \u00a0 I wish that I could go back 25 years. \u00a0We can’t. \u00a0It sickens me to know that a given judge is political, or that a firm has quick-connects for the air hose.<\/p>\n
Here’s the thing! \u00a0 NOBODY can tell me that I’m wrong. \u00a0The science & art of raising kids with livestock is a life-long lesson of responsibility, work ethic & pride that is hard to replicate anywhere else. \u00a0The desire of chasing banners at a stock show has turned into a political, money pit and orgy of negatives that is hard to justify in the real world\u2026.well, without a lot of prayers and confessions.<\/p>\n
Keep it clean. \u00a0Forget the dollars and do what is right. The moral & educational foundation which the stock show industry was founded upon, is actually still there. \u00a0We have to respect that.<\/p>\n
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I’m out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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