\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Sometimes, things happen, that make you realize that this big bad world can actually seem quite small.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A month ago, I received an email from a lady that works the AET.\u00a0 AET is the ag experience tracker.\u00a0 It is a web-based record keeping company that all FFA chapters use for records, journals and award apps.\u00a0 I’m not necessarily a big fan.\u00a0 Anyways, as I’m reading the email, I’m asking myself, “Why is she reaching out to me?”\u00a0 She was offering to come to this part of the world and teach a class on how to utilize AET to its fullest.\u00a0 Once again, I’m thinking, “I can operate it.\u00a0 I don’t like it.\u00a0 But, I can run it.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0But then, at the end of the email, she added, “I have a friend named Jerry Hunter that was bragging on your program.”\u00a0 Well hell!\u00a0 I know Jerry.\u00a0 His daughter grew up with Tammy.\u00a0 Even still, I did not immediately respond as I wasn’t sure that I wanted to host\/attend an AET workshop.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The next morning, I walked into the Gage quick stop.\u00a0 The morning coffee drinkers were already dispersing.\u00a0 I grabbed my Little Debbie oatmeal cream pie and headed to the checkout.\u00a0 One of the coffee drinkers had circled back around and came back in to catch me.\u00a0 Dean Chapman says “Hey Kelln, did a computer lady contact you?”\u00a0 \u00a0Me–“What?\u00a0 A computer lady?\u00a0 \u00a0No.”<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 He said, “Yeah, a real nice lady.\u00a0 She works for some computer company that all of you ag teachers use.”\u00a0 Me–“Oh, yeah.\u00a0 AET lady.\u00a0 Sure, I got an email yesterday.”<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Dean said, “I met her when we were in the hospital in Houston.\u00a0 Super good person.\u00a0 You need to have her come up here.”\u00a0 Cool.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 So, I sent a text to the county ag teachers, half expecting them to NOT be interested in an AET workshop.\u00a0 Hit send and then ding, ding, ding.\u00a0 They all immediately replied that they were in.\u00a0 SO, I replied back to her and a workshop was scheduled.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Last week, the Shattuck Ag Ed department hosted ag teachers from 5 counties as Mary Wilson from AET taught us how to better operate the program.\u00a0 Free!\u00a0 She only had to drive about 9 hours from Dayton, TX to Shattuck, America.\u00a0 All I had to do was get her a hotel room and cook lunch.\u00a0 Wicked cool!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mary turned out to be a retired 30 year vet of teaching ag at Barber Hills.\u00a0 Her husband was an ag teacher.\u00a0 Her son is an ag teacher.\u00a0 Her brother-in-law just happens to be the founder of AET.\u00a0 She had met Jerry and Dean when she had her dad in the hospital in Houston during Hurricane Harvey.\u00a0 They have stayed in touch and she got to visit her Okie friends while she was here.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Did I learn anything?\u00a0 Hells Yeah!\u00a0 Excellent workshop.\u00a0 All of the teachers had positive responses.\u00a0 Plus she had some great stories about teaching and ag (80s rice farming, Chrysler and the chinese–I didn’t know).\u00a0 Small world!<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Also about a month ago, late one Friday evening, I get a text from a random #.\u00a0 “Hi, i ran across an old milk can labeled kelln produce shattuck ok and wondered if it was any relation to you.”<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We all know how I love anonymous texts.\u00a0 So, I fired off “Who is this?”\u00a0 \u00a0No reply.\u00a0 So, I sent a follow up text that I was interested.\u00a0 Now, I really wasn’t that interested in an old milk can but I random text on a Friday night while I was smoking 150#s of pulled pork.\u00a0 The pork might not have been the only thing smoked.\u00a0 He finally responded with his name and that “My grandfather had a dairy and I look at old bottles and cans and saw this at an estate sale in Tulsa and thought I would trx contacting family.”\u00a0 \u00a0Guess what happened when this dude googled Kelln.\u00a0 Yep, the first thing on the google search was this piece of paradise website.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0So, I called him.\u00a0 He texted me a pic of the milk can.\u00a0 He lived in Ponca City.\u00a0 The can was in an estate sale the next day in Tulsa.\u00a0 He said he would try to get the can.\u00a0 He got it bought and I told him I would be through their in the upcoming weeks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I sent a pic of the milk can to my dad who found a 91 year old Kelln cousin that remembered the Kelln Produce store in Shattuck back during the 20s through 40s.\u00a0 This milk can was stamped with Kelln Produce Shattuck OK.\u00a0 Not painted on it–stamped.\u00a0 The milk came from a dairy in Hutchison, KS.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Anyways, I made it to Ponca City.\u00a0 Met up with\u00a0 Clark Estes and his wife.\u00a0 We told both sides of our stories about this milk can.\u00a0 Good people.\u00a0 I asked him what I owed him.\u00a0 He said, “Well, let me tell you some more of the story.\u00a0 I went in to work on the Monday after I first contacted you.\u00a0 One of my co-workers asked if I did anything cool this weekend and I told him about finding a milk can with a weird-spelled name on it and I tracked a guy down in Western OK that is an ag teacher and I got the can for him.”\u00a0 My co-worker said, “Oh hell!\u00a0 Was it Kelln?”\u00a0 \u00a0“Uh yeah.”\u00a0 And then my co-worker started telling me stories about you and then another co-worker walked in, listened and then said, “You all talking about Kelln?”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Guess what?\u00a0 Both of these co-workers had kids that showed goats.\u00a0 I knew the guys, just didn’t know where they worked.\u00a0 Small world.<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I pulled out my wallet to pay him.\u00a0 He said, “I have $40 tied up in getting the can.\u00a0 I know you are a teacher and may not have much extra cash and I have had a lot of fun with this deal.\u00a0 If you can’t pay it, don’t worry about it.”\u00a0 How cool is that?\u00a0 Wicked cool!\u00a0 I handed him a $50.\u00a0 Assured him I could afford it, shook his hand and thanked him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0There is a lot of screwed up stuff in this world of ours.\u00a0 Yet, there are so many good things from good people that can just randomly happen because it can be a small world.\u00a0 There is way more good than bad.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In closing, I met some cool people, learned about a program that I didn’t like but now understand better.\u00a0 And I have a milk can.\u00a0 And yes, I’m a little concerned as to what stories were told about me at work that Monday morning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
People, have a good day and a better tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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