If I could have figured out how to make it pay a mortgage, health insurance, car payments, and feed the kids, I would still be harnessing a team every winter morning to feed cattle, riding range, irrigating, and stacking hay all summer. Because that was the love of my life.

But I have loved the paychecks and bennies at the factory for the last 40 years. And in 28 months, I will begin enjoying the pension checks.


People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.