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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
A few years ago quite a bunch of us old Democrats
became backsliders and started voting Republican now and then.
We didn’t exactly join the Republican Party, you understand.
We’d just sneak in and give it a boost occasionally. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
Years ago, when I was a kid, I was fascinated by
the drifters who passed through our area. Most of them were
running from something, from the law to a mother-in-law. All
of them were interesting. Sooner or later, they landed at the
Ritz Hotel. Society today would call it a flop house, but this
inn had a character unknown to the modern version. The Ritz
was covered totally with "tin." They call it
corrugated metal today, but back then communications were
simpler and more honest. |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
Before the old ranch was divided, the White Mill
pasture held a jinx on cowboys. Ropes and hats were lost and
never found. Riders strayed off the drive onto neighboring
ranches, confused by a big brushy draw that looked the same on
the north and south ends of the pasture. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
It’s hard to write a letter to someone whose
house is on fire. Klamath Falls, Oregon, is like Pompeii at
the foot of Mt. Vesuvius, like Krakow under the heel of
Hitler, like common sense in the clutches of a zealot. It is
an irrigated farming community of 50,000 built out of an arid
basin on the California border. It has existed for nearly 100
years because regional rivers were harnessed, storage lakes
expanded and canals built to allow agriculture to flourish and
people to live there. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
Up until this year, the yard around our house has
been an official cat-free zone. That rule was established and
enforced by two of our dogs, Grace and Walter. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
My mom told me to never talk to strange men, but I
couldn't help it. Snuffy ate at the same joint I did and
washed his clothes at the same laundromat. Besides, he was as
harmless as a pet rabbit, or so I initially thought. Later I
would learn that Snuffy was flakier than a box of Special K
and more dangerous than a big buckin' bull. |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
General Patton must have been a Brush Sculptor at
heart. I can picture him standing atop a D7 on the road to
Mertzon amidst the "battle of the brush" exhorting
his troops to take it to the "enemy." |
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Dr. Jim
& Lynda McCall
On
Matters of...Equine
Dr. Emory Leffel was a wise old professor of livestock
nutrition. We once asked him about creep feeding foals to
compensate for any deficiency in a mare’s milk production.
His answer was simple and directly to the point. |
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D'Ann Ducote
Palabras
Wild Cats. No, "wild cats" is not a misprint,
and the title does not refer to individuals working in the oil
industry, nor to jazz musicians; neither does it address the
abundance of feral felines most of us who live in the country
are familiar with. Rather, this "wild cat" is known
in the social registry as William Michael the Feline, aka
"No, Bad Kitty," or just plain Nobad. My sister
calls him Psycho Kitty, but I call him Bill. |
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