{"id":4193,"date":"2021-02-26T04:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T04:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2021-02-26T06:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:43:37","slug":"thoughts-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/thoughts-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I type this, I am watching Winston the cavapoo run laps around the furniture.\u00a0 Tammy is gone for work and I am left here tending to a 8# dog.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t complain as she was wicked good help during the frozen weeks. So, here I am tending to this beast.\u00a0 Even!<\/p>\n<p>I had to put him on a leash and go out to the big machine shed.\u00a0 That&#8217;s where he likes to crap at 9 or 10 at night.\u00a0 As he stopped and dropped not 1 or 3 turds, but more like 8 different tootsie rolls.\u00a0 I thought of a buck that I saw last summer&#8230;..Walk It Out.\u00a0 \u00a0This lil dog would drop a tootsie roll,\u00a0 walk it out, then drop another.\u00a0 8 times he crapped and then walked it out.\u00a0 But there was no doubt when the last Walk It Out was the right one.<\/p>\n<p>As I came back inside and unleashed the beast, I then realized that the chicken door wasn&#8217;t shut.\u00a0 Damn!!!!\u00a0 \u00a0I had already taken off my shoes.\u00a0 \u00a0It hurts to bend over and tie shoes.\u00a0 So, I thought about the great American Hoss Manske.\u00a0 Duke and I once witnessed Hoss sit down, bend over, grab a boot and pull it on.\u00a0 \u00a0And then, he sat up straight, took a deep breath of fresh air and let the oxygen flow into his system.\u00a0 \u00a0He then gained his composure and looked at Duke and said, &#8220;Duke, every time that I bend over and pull a boot on, I truly wish that I could breathe out of my A-hole.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0I understand.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward District Livestock Show only has the cattle show left.\u00a0 This district show has the best premium sale in Oklahoma, other than OYE.\u00a0 This district show has wicked good stock.\u00a0 The bottom end is well fed and well cared for.\u00a0 The top end can play anywhere.\u00a0 Yet, the best part of this show, it is still old-school.\u00a0 We truly want it to be for the kids and of the kids.\u00a0 There are still enough old-school ag teachers that it gets policed.\u00a0 Jocks are fine as long as no rules are broken.\u00a0 Judges are major show caliber.\u00a0 Speaking of which, the sheep\/goat judge is an up and comer that needs to judge more.\u00a0 This cat reads livestock structure and understands real muscle and the relative value of livestock fat content.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying that our district show is better than yours.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just saying that we have the best district stock show.\u00a0 Stories to come.\u00a0\u00a0The wolves have us surrounded but there is an old guard(s) that are working to keep this deal old-school for-real.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that I need to step away, hands up and don&#8217;t touch the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>People, have a good one today and a better one tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I type this, I am watching Winston the cavapoo run laps around the furniture.\u00a0 Tammy is gone for work and I am left here tending to a 8# dog.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t complain as she was wicked good help during the frozen weeks. So, here I am tending to this [&hellip;]<\/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\/4193"}],"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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}