My son John each year, in the winter months, remodels a room at the Parkfield Lodge. This year he has chosen the room we call The Tool Room who's theme is that of a Blacksmith's shop.

"I’m just an old lump of coal but I’m going to be a diamond someday", a line from an old western song but thank god that’s not going to be my fate.

I want to take you all back a few hundred thousand years when the land was totally devoid of any McDonald's and not a sign of a Starbucks was anywhere to be seen. That left the only food to fill your belly was by hunting and gathering.

I think that a good ranch steward sees this as job number one. There’s lots of things that have to go right in order to have the green growing things (grass, trees and brush) to be productive. The V6 lies in a rain belt that is supposed to yield an average rainfall for the year of about 16 to 18 inches. But seldom dose this happen.

We need you now, please show yourself to your kinfolk who are dwelling now in your old stomping grounds the United States of America. Will, we’re so busy snarling at each other nowadays  I think we’ve forgotten how to smile. What do you think?

The green growing things, so important to all life, will be in a healthy regenerative state that will delight the pallets of all the grazing animals. Now to all you predator out there. There will always be sufficient numbers of silly, lame, lazy and careless critters to keep you all “fat and sassy”. 

The Democratic nations of the world have to take the lead with this obligation. All the dictatorship and other authoritarian governments that do not give to their citizens a means to participate in  the exploration of possible solutions can not participate.

What the hell has water got to do with God and Science anyway? Well I’m not real positive myself but it struck me that it can be a way for me to explain how God and Science can complement each other, leaving me with a satisfied mind.

What brought me to realize that I’m a real fashion plate this October, 2018. That I am dressed to the 9’s. My awakening to the fact, happened this evening. After taking of my work shoes I could find but one of my slippers that I haven’t worn since last winter. Autumn has arrived!

My dad once told me that simplest solutions are usually the best . So I think I’ll barge right into your consciousness with part of a solution to help whatever ails a body. We are all born with two sides for sure, but some get a 3rd side that make up our mortal bodies.

Have you ever wondered what life before the day of your birth was like?

For some reason or another there seems to be lots of discussions out in social media land, on our TV’s and talk shows about mentoring and how valuable it can be especially for our youth. The right person at the right time can turn a young persons life around.

I’ve always liked the word decent because, for me, it has so many ways that you can be “fair and kind.” But I wanted to be sure that my definition of decent and my Webster’s New World Dictionary agreed.

Now that’s a nice thought. For me it has an innocence that says “could it really be.” So I think I’ll take a trip where reality lives and see what’s really going on. There I find myself getting out of bed and taking inventory of all my body parts and find that I’m still solidly in the house of the living but with a body that shows some obvious signs of wear and tear.

  Please stay with me a minute before you think I’ve slipped a cog. I’ve got 2 pastures on the ranch each about 2,000 acre, that because of the quality of their grass that grows there, it’s not my favorite place to be with my cattle, during the “green season", that’s the time when our cattle are adding on most of their total weight for the year in just 100 days of Spring. So I want my cattle to be out where my best grass lives.

Because each of us are born differently never to be replicated again and in that difference, we each have the chance to revel and grow in our own uniqueness and if you want to, you can change a Sow’s Ear into a Silk Purse. 

I like this replacement word perception it’s somewhat mystical and sheds light into the writers inner workings.  So let’s all escape now from those feelings that the word blog incites in a person. And instead become perceptive/ so blog you can now fade into obscurity.

My crushing right hand was now bleeding on my side of the bed. How appropriate to end this saga with my wife saying “let me put a Band-Aid on that cut” While I still need a clock radio, this time I’ve left the selection to my daughter Lilly and Amazon. It will be here in 2 days. What happens if this new clock is no better? Then the antique store will be my next stop.

Any way I smell barbecue steak about to be served followed up with some very good looking layer cakes and because it’s an election year we’re sure to have a few folks that are running for some or another elected office. Then the honoring of the cattleman and cattle women of the year and then the chance to visit with old friends that I haven’t seen since last year. For me it’s a day well spent.