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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer. – Will Rogers Most of you who read my posts here know I’m a farm girl. I grew up on a farm and have lived on a farm all my life. While my husband has retired from farming, we still enjoy farm living. A young farmer …
Make hay while the sun shines. Most everyone has heard that old saying and knows what it means. But if you’re a farmer with some cows to get through the winter, you especially give that plenty of thought. You watch the weather forecast with an attentive eye for several days of sunny weather in a row. Then you hope the …
“My grandfather used to say that once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, and a preacher. But every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.” ~Brenda Schoepp I grew up on a farm, helped in the crops, chased, er.. herded cows and sometimes sheep, bottle fed lambs, fed the chickens, carried in wood …
The power of a dad in a child’s life is unmatched. ~Justin Ricklefs It’s Father’s Day on the longest daylight day of the year, the summer solstice. That just gives us extra time to celebrate our dads. I hope you had a good dad the way I did. My dad was a farmer. His father was a farmer and his …
March 6, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Well, maybe it would be better to say Holly County, Kentucky. We don’t have cows on Main Street, Hollyhill. At least not often. Of course, there is that big farm right behind Main Street. They must milk 100 cows. None that look like this one. Their cows are Holsteins. That …