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Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger.
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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Fun With A New Knee
I’ve been lucky with knees. The right knee has been scoped twice and is still working. The left knee has been scoped three times, and on Tuesday it went through a total knee replacement. Each surgery has protected me from qualifying as a cripple – and none of the surgeries could be done a century Read more
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Graphs for July
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Paid on the Gold Standard
The US Constitution says: No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. ~ Art. I, sec. 10, cl. 1. I think that translated to a gold and silver based economy if a state were to mint its own coins. Read more
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My Favorite Baseball Player
As a kid, I knew all of the names – Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Joe Dimaggio, Roberto Clemente -the list goes on. My knowledge of professional baseball came from the radio. In 2006, driving across South Dakota, I listened to an interview that epitomized the love of the game. Edgard Clemente, of the Sioux Falls Read more
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Thinking of Keith Utter on Memorial Day
I’m thinking of a high school friend who didn’t make it back from Viet Nam. Over fifty years ago, when I read the citation on his Silver Star, I thought that his sergeant did a good job of describing Keith Utter – and I moved from mildly supporting my country’s involvement in Viet Nam to Read more
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Off the Board
May 19th, I left the school board, and my successor was installed. I’ve learned as I have moved from one job, one position to the next that you don’t have a replacement, you have a successor. It hasn’t been an easy six years – somehow a culture of conflict, best described through the Karpman drama Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 