“It takes cow sense to be a bullfighter.”
While the statement might seem a bit of pun on words, that’s the way it is, according to one of the most up-and-coming professionals in the business. Continue reading →
Month: May 2015
Influential Friendship Prevails Eccentricity
Tom was and remains our hero.
When one passes, the life is reflected. In depreciating health extended time, Tom had been away, and departed during the winter. With no close relatives, rites weren’t until now. Continue reading →
Personal Friendship With Milk Cows Points To Flint Hills Dairy Becoming Diversely Renown
Ria Vos is the Dairy Maiden of Chase County.
She loves her cows; she knows every one of them by name. They know their name, and if she teases one by the wrong moniker, that cow scowls back. Continue reading →
Kansas Junior High School Rodeo Finals Attracts Top Cowboys And Cowgirls To Whitewater This Weekend
Top junior high school rodeo cowboys and cowgirls in Kansas are gearing up for their yearend finals and determination of those to represent the state at the National Junior High School Rodeo Finals this summer. Continue reading →
Downpours Better Than Drought
“When it rains, it pours.” That’s certainly been the case in the past couple of weeks, and we’re thankful for it.
For some reason, we think about those one-pound round blue canisters of Morton Salt we stocked on the shelves at Buchman’s Grocery a half-century ago. Continue reading →
Longest Running Professional Rodeo Has Special Attractions Set For Strong City
Bright lights will be shining at the oldest consecutive rodeo in Kansas.
Likewise, this is one of the longest running professional rodeos in the world, and, as importantly, has the most unique heritage in the sport of rodeo. Continue reading →
Cowgirl Misses Day On Horseback Preparing For Graduation Exercises And Busy Times Ahead
She was so busy; she didn’t even have time to ride her horse Saturday.
On the forefront, one might wonder: “How in the world could a lifelong, heartfelt cowgirl not arrange just a brief mounted gallop on her favorite mount?”
Answer’s most apparent upon finally arranging a quick cellphone visit with the cowgirl as she left the farm home for a dozen obligations in one of the even busier days of her always most eventful lifestyle, which in itself is mindboggling.
Ag Camps To Help Children Understand Where Their Family’s Food Comes From
“Most children don’t know that milk comes from cows.”
Even fewer have a clue bread is made from flour which comes from wheat, and saddest part is they’ve never given such things a thought or consideration.
Likely even the more serious thing is that a large majority of the parents don’t either. Continue reading →
Dump Helps Yard Cleanup
“How in the world can all of those old tires accumulate around the barnyard?”
That question was rolling in our head as we spent two hours loading worn out pickup and car tires into the back of our horse trailer Friday evening.
Why the old tires are kept is beyond comprehension, but it got so the filling station was charging to keep our worn out ones, so we’d bring them home, saving a couple bucks, while rationalizing they’d be better than nothing, if we had irreparable flats. Continue reading →
Anniversary Santa Fe Trail Rodeo At Burlingame This Weekend Is Cowboys’ Dream Come True
The cowboys’ dream came true and lives today.
“Organize it, build it and people will come.”
That was the philosophy and repeated comment by a group of eight Burlingame rodeo enthusiasts 45 years ago. Continue reading →