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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
I didn't have time to watch the moon
rise over the mountains last night. I'd gone out
to get something and noticed a glow on the
silhouette of China Peak. "A fire," I
thought. But it was still too wet for timber or
brush to be burnin'. |
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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
To a child, life is black and white.
If you try to keep up with them, you turn out to
be black and blue. Someone once said, "The
Lord sure knew what He was doing when He gave
kids to young folks." |
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
Enough shortgrassers are traveling
abroad nowadays to prompt Doctor Chung in San
Angelo to keep the vaccines the Centers for
Disease Control in Atlanta prescribes for
primitive areas, or at least most of them. |
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Unregistered
Bull
Choice gleanings
from 45-plus years of Unregistered Bull
"Well," said John,
"here we go again. After all the hollering
we had about supply and demand and freedom from
government finagling during the Truman
administration, now we're back in the same old
boat asking Uncle Sam for help. |
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Dr. Jim
and Lynda McCall
On Matters ...
Equine
Most people have heard the term
"big head" applied to an individual
with an inflated or pampered ego. Of course, in
this context the term is figurative, but pampered
horses may literally exhibit big head syndrome
— a condition where the head coarsens and
increases in size. |
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C.A.
Rodenberger, PhD.
The
Computer & The Cowboy
I have been through computer hell. I
went two weeks without access to my computer. I
was lost without being able to log on to the
Internet and check my mail, my stocks, my
financial accounts, or being able to access the
web. And when I was put on hold, I didn’t
have solitaire to occupy my time while I listened
to "grocery store music." |
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Dale
Rollins, Ph.D
Wildlife
By Design
Behold the old adage about not counting
one’s chickens (or in this case quail)
before they’re hatched. I think it was
Longfellow who noted that "the saddest words
of tongue or pen. The saddest are these ‘it
might have been’." Perhaps Longfellow
was a quail hunter. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
I've heard some people say that taking a
shower was never the same for them after they saw
the 1960 movie, Psycho, with the famous scene of
the knife-wielding murderer lurking the other
side of the shower curtain. Those folks claim
that that scene flashes through their mind every
time they step into the shower. |
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