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Life is Simple
Life is Simple
The Midwest Cattleman · February 3, 2022 · P5

Copyright 2022, good as new.” the Christmas feast. Since we sometime in March.
Jerry Crownover A goodly number of don’t have any grandchildren, Regardless, there are
health-related issues over the our immediate family that enough tasty pies, cakes, can-
past couple of years have left gathers for any holiday is quite dies, and other treats scattered
me wondering, when I arise small. However, that does not throughout the house that,
each morning, which body part prevent my wife from prepar- even after stuffing oneself on
I will need to have repaired, re- ing enough delicious food to the main meal, you can justi-
placed, or reconstructed. Such feed a platoon of soldiers re- fy, “Just a bite of this couldn’t
was the case this last Christ- turning from a twenty-mile hurt…much.”
mas Day. march. She rationalizes that At the conclusion of Christ-
The kids had come out to enough food can be sent home mas day, Judy had filled about
the farm for the weekend, and with the kids to alleviate a
Judy had been busy preparing need for them to cook, until continued on page 26

My first tractor was a for-
eign-made, off-brand machine,
that served its purpose fairly
well, for a number of years.
Unfortunately, I came to re-
alize that every year, I would
have to repair, replace, or re-
construct some major compo-
nent of the implement, for it
to be useful for another year.
By the time I traded it off for a
good, American-made tractor,
I had replaced enough of its
essential parts that I had no
problem in proclaiming it, “As

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