Today I have the distinct pleasure of announcing and publicly congratulating the three recipients of the Brad Scholarship: • Charley Maranville of Ramah, Colorado, a freshman at Texas Tech University • Shirley Jo Thompson of Limon, Colorado, a prospective graduate of Limon High School • Brooklyn Lee of Dolores, Colorado, a sophomore at Fort HaysContinue reading “Brad Scholarship Recipients”
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The Brad Scholarship.
If you’re here as an applicant for the Bradley Heil Memorial Advancing Agriculture Scholarship, then by all means feel free to read this post which talks all about it, but mainly you’ll want to click here to get to the dedicated scholarship page. The application opens at 1 a.m. Feb. 1 and closes at midnightContinue reading “The Brad Scholarship.”
The introvert, or the hermit?
From time to time, circumstances plunge me into situations where either I’m really uncomfortable or I question everything I ever knew about social interaction, including my past experience, which is a little unnerving. I will acknowledge up front that this is at least partly because I am an introvert from birth. Given some of myContinue reading “The introvert, or the hermit?”
So they’ve made a tractor that runs on anhydrous ammonia.
If you are someone who grows things for a living on a scale larger than, say, a couple dozen acres, you may remember when the most efficient and cost-effective way to get nitrogen to your crop was anhydrous ammonia. I pulled a few tanks for Jeremy back in the day when I was mostly justContinue reading “So they’ve made a tractor that runs on anhydrous ammonia.”
This, that, and the next thing — all absurd.
Until someone uses it, I forget that “absurd” is one of my most favorite words. It’s so perfectly descriptive. (I like most words quite a lot, so it is minorly deceptive of me to be declaring a most favorite.) Absurd. Like seven medicine dosing cups in the dirty dishes — and that’s not even atContinue reading “This, that, and the next thing — all absurd.”
No, 2019 wasn’t pretty.
The short time between finishing taxes and starting calving is typically the time of year when I have the most optimism, the most hope, and the biggest daydreams. There’s a little space — a little breathing room to read with opportunity in mind, to consider ideas. Last year’s bomb cyclone shut that down. A yearContinue reading “No, 2019 wasn’t pretty.”
A whole lot of awesome.
Our family’s Christmas trees are pretty awesome. Multicolored incandescent lights illuminate the things our kids made in school and the ornaments gifted over the last 43 years from my aunt and uncle in California. We hang a chosen few ornaments from my and my husband’s grandparents’ collections, and some retired Chrismons from the church whereContinue reading “A whole lot of awesome.”
A book about Nebraska.
This Soils and Streams column first appeared in the Dec. 14, 2019, issue of the Kearney Hub. This is one that didn’t make it into the online edition. Bah. Consider a gift to your community fund — really In the spring semester of 1997, I was a junior at the best place for me, BethanyContinue reading “A book about Nebraska.”
Work. Work everywhere.
This Soils and Streams column first appeared in the Sept. 14, 2019, issue of the Kearney Hub. It was above the flag on 1A, which is a little ridiculous, but there you have it. Farm families face historic struggles I have thought a lot about work recently. A couple of our daughters decided in theContinue reading “Work. Work everywhere.”
Cannot make this up.
Pretty crazy how simply rotating toys back out of the basement can enthrall the small people. Today we unearthed four doll-strolling devices, and the strolling not only has not ceased in the intervening hours, it even attracted the boy’s attention. I suppose no one should go tell his classmates. This afternoon, the girls played duck-duck-gooseContinue reading “Cannot make this up.”
This Prairie Life. 