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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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • October 16, 2025 Yesterday we visited about keeping our focus “on things above,” by allowing the Holy Spirit to produce His fruit in our lives. I know this looks like a really big job, and it is. In fact, none of us can produce the Fruit of the Spirit apart from the Spirit. It’s a…

  • October 15, 2025 Good morning dear friends. It’s cloudy, cold and wet here in Lusk this morning, it feels like Fall! When I was right at sixteen years of age, a friend convinced me that I should attempt riding bulls. So I took a run at it. I had been riding cows for several years…

  • October 14, 2025 A few years back, I started watching videos of a certain horse. He belongs to a lady that I consider to be my little sister, and as such, she and her horse have always been special to me. I watched video after video of Opus winning contest after contest. In my eyes…

  • October 13, 2025 I will be using the New American Standard Version for Bible quotes: As we begin our study of Colossians 3:1-4, because of the “Therefore” in v. 1, we have to go back to Chapter 2 to determine the proper context of Chapter 3. Colossians 2:6 is a great start, “Therefore as you…

  • October 12, 2025 If I were to open a discussion on the present condition of the United States government, everyone would have an opinion. Everyone would be able to tell me exactly what they think should be done about the present shutdown, and probably with plenty of emotion expressed in said statement! But if I…

  • October 11, 2025 Welcome to yet another Saturday. I’m sure that this day will find each of us busy with some kind of a plan for the day. After all, it’s the weekend and we have things we need, or want to do! From working on the house or yard, to attending a sports event,…