Hi D.D. Happy to meet you.
And thank you for joining our group.
If you have any questions now just ask away.

HI D.D...what sort of farm do you have? You are one of the few that has been able to sustain a family farm...CHEERS to you and your family for what you do!

I have lived in Canyon, Texas(just south of Amarillo and home of the second largest canyon in the US) for nine years now and have truly come to understand the farming and ranching lifestyle because of it. On the weather reports nightly from Amarillo I get to hear the soil temperature and the pan evaporative rate. Have listened to the Farm Report on the radio early Sunday mornings too. This is cattle country so most of the farming done is to sustain that industry, but down south a bit is big cotton.

I grew up in NJ and my dad commuted in and out of NYC for work, so moving to Texas was a lifestyle and attitude adjustment. Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined being stopped dead in the middle of the road by a bull or a "cattle jam", as I like to call them. That's when cowboys are moving the herd from one pasture to another. It can be across the street or up the road. Yup, cowboys are alive and well here...the backbreaking, hardworking kind, not the "urban" wannabes.

I have become "countryfied" and couldn't live in the city again if I had to. I'll take a cattle jam over a traffic jam any day!

D.D., I really like this... "My birthday gift to myself when I turned 50 a few years back was to stop worrying about what people think of me -- which isn't the same thing as worrying about how people feel.... " those are some words to live by :)