In a society adrift on a raging sea of changing values and uncharted permissiveness, we must take time to teach our children that freedom is not free or they will be lost with proverbial chains around their necks.

Correct principles and laws that govern freedom are being trashed and replaced with nonsensical platitudes of political correctness.

The rhubarb is on... a sure sign of spring around here.

I cut some yesterday and made this luscious rhubarb crunch. It’s a change from pie, but makes a nice dessert.

Equipment maintenance and repair is necessary to avoid downtime and to minimize major repairs.

However, maintaining and repairing machines can lead to serious injury.

Workers should be trained in shop safety and have the proper equipment to minimize or even eliminate the impact of shop accidents.

Sometimes I am struck by how fields keep their past. No matter how thoroughly a dead furrow seems to be disked before new seeding, you can still find it after every cutting.

Uncle Joe was makin’ his rounds this spring checking the horses and cows to make sure everything had water.

When he got to the bull lot, one of his prize young Charolais bulls had managed to crawl through one of the round-bale feeders and was lying down, happily chewing his cud.

In December 1968 economist Dr. Garrett Hardin wrote a seminal paper called “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Largely used in the field of economic theory, I believe it has relevance to those of us tasked with thinking about resource management.

I just finished re-reading “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen. I read it several years ago, but my son was reading it for his reading class so I decided to read it with him. If you haven’t read “Hatchet,” you should. It’s a great book.