Frank J. Buchman

Cowboy • Horseman • Writer

Other Side Of Fence Really Is Greener

May Day is grass day. It’s the one most anticipated by cow and man alike. The winter is always long to both the bovine and owner, but this past one was for the records. Whenever spring green shoots start sneaking through the barren soil, cattle appetites quickly change. That prairie hay which seemed pretty dang […]

Fishing Is For More Than The Food

“Gone fishin’, instead of just a-wishin’.” That’s what the original television fisherman, Harold Ensley, The Sportsman’s Friend, used to say on his Saturday evening program. We were excited when Mr. Ensley spoke  during a conservation meeting many years ago, and we can recall some of his fish stories.

Simplicity Is Start To Solving Complications

Life is a complicated journey. There are so many decisions to make. It seems when one is in the adolescent years, all answers lie just ahead, and everything will be just right. Or, sometimes, at that immature stage in life, one might have a secure, even smug, feeling of actually possessing all the exact solutions.

Only Nature Controls Blaze In Wonderland

Never underestimate the power of fire and wind. Those who do are quickly proven wrong. A strike of a match or even an unintended spark whisked by a tiny gust can set the earth afire. An old saying, “It spread like wildfire,” comes to life and soon engulfs the countryside taking prairie, timber, homes businesses, […]

Financial Management Must Still Be Progressive

“Be better to put that money in a can and bury it in the garden.” That’s a philosophy lots of folks who had funds in the stock market and other risk investments wished they would have had before the economic downturn of 2008. There are some who had the foresight to see that decline and […]

Personal Identity Must Be Revered

How is somebody supposed to know one from another? Every living creature is completely unique, so there are no two alike. Yet, there are similarities of each within all species. Every horse is different, but comparable in general characteristics. The dilemma arises in knowing exactly which is which, and individual identification becomes necessary.

Many Of Life’s Pressures Are Irrelevant

Stress is a vicious culprit. Its effects can be incapacitating, even to the point of fatality. Every living being, mammal and plant life alike, is susceptible to stress, though some are more prone than others. On the human side, denial can come into the picture, as certain ones will deny under all circumstances that any […]

Many Of Life’s Pressures Are Irrelevant

Stress is a vicious culprit. Its effects can be incapacitating, even to the point of fatality. Every living being, mammal and plant life alike, is susceptible to stress, though some are more prone than others. On the human side, denial can come into the picture, as certain ones will deny under all circumstances that any […]

Many Of Life’s Pressures Are Irrelevant

Stress is a vicious culprit. Its effects can be incapacitating, even to the point of fatality. Every living being, mammal and plant life alike, is susceptible to stress, though some are more prone than others. On the human side, denial can come into the picture, as certain ones will deny under all circumstances that any […]

Better To Be Early Than Left Behind

Hurry up and wait. That’s a lot of what life is, and we were reminded of that when retracing adventures of three flights and the entire excursion to and back from Oregon where we judged a three-day horse show.