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October 3, 2025 (This didn’t post on 10/3, so I’ll try again today 10/27) Yesterday I traveled 150 miles south of here to Cheyenne for a day-long meeting with eleven other pastors. We all serve God’s kingdom under the direction of Converge Rocky Mountain. We spoke of the growing hatred toward religious groups in America.…
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October 26, 2025 The next morning, day three, starts a strong hour before the sun wakes up and we are on the road again, ten miles to the Lusk sale barn. The biggest issue of this day will be getting the cattle to cross the asphalt road just east of Manville so we can come…
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October 25, 2025 Let’s travel back sixty-plus years to a September morning, the sun is lighting a small glow behind the hills to the east of us, the air is crisp, and Mother Nature is just starting to wake up. My dad is holding the lead shank of a halter, the halter is on a…
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October 23, 2025 Sitting here listening to our forced-air furnace cycle causes me to miss the old wood stove even more. The ranch house we lived in had ground corncobs in the walls for insulation, and very little, if any insulation in the roof. When the wind was howling and the snow was flying, the…
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October 22, 2025 Ever since I was just a short-legged feller, I have loved being in the mountains. That is, until I had to climb one to get to a certain destination. Back in the early 70’s my brother and I were both blessed to harvest two cow elk, right smack on top of a…
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October 21, 2025 Here we are looking at the tail end of another month, man time sure is going fast! As I told a friend just the other day, “When you get to be our age, we know that we have seen way more sunsets than we will ever see sunrises.” Nothing morbid, just a…
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October 20, 2025 Yesterday at church I had a fun visit with a great lady. During our visit she asked that I consider writing about the tin-cup on the windmill tower, so here goes: If you were blessed to grow up in ranch country, you probably already know where we are headed. Especially on bigger…
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October 19, 2025 Well, yesterday presented us with our first snow for this season. Though I’m not even close to being ready for winter, it will be here in full force soon. The oncoming winter is like all of the other undesirable events in our lives; we are seldom ready for it to hit. But,…
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October 18, 202 In the late 1970″s Miss Deb, our three little ones and I oved back to the home ranch after my dad’s death. The winter of 1977-78 was an extremely tough one. We received a foot of snow on Thanksgiving Day and we never saw the ground again unity mid-May. In March the…
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October 18, 2025 We have been blessed with some good Fall moisture, but then that almost always means wind on the tail-end of a front. Here, it is 3:30 a.m. and the wind is howling outside. It sure doesn’t make me excited about working outside again today, but outside is where of the work is…
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