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A Hay Expo experience By: Jerry Nelson 02/13/2012 @ 11:18am

I recently attended an alfalfa expo in Kearney, Nebraska. That’s just how wild and crazy I am: I’ll drive seven hours simply to attend an event that’s all about hay.This ...

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Shopping By: Brent Olson 02/13/2012 @ 11:16am

We visited our daughter in St. Paul over the weekend.  As we were standing in her apartment, I asked, “What should we do?”She looked at me and said, “Well, the last ...

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Old age barnacles By: Brent Olson 02/07/2012 @ 9:15am

My wife made me get a…thing…cut off my wrist.  It was just a little bump, shaped kind of like Australia, but she thought it was getting bigger and changing color.  I ...

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Dum-dum By: Brent Olson 01/31/2012 @ 8:54am

I just want a normal life.If I can’t have that, I’d just like to have a normal cat.We were out of cats for quite a while.  After BD, our throwback to Genghis Khan went to ...

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A country mouse in the city By: Jerry Nelson 01/30/2012 @ 12:17pm

A recent trip to a big city reinforced the notion that I do not belong in a big city.Cities are fine in theory; they’re just not for me. And it’s not like I don’t have any ...

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Work By: Brent Olson 01/24/2012 @ 10:23am

We had a tonsillectomy in the family last week and my wife spent a couple days out of town, assigned to kid-wrangling duties.  I called, just to see how things were going ...

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Valentine's Day dilemmas By: Jerry Nelson 01/23/2012 @ 11:04am

That critical February date is fast arriving, a day which will end with the thrill of victory for some and the agony of defeat for others.No, I don’t just mean Super Bowl ...

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An occupation By: Jerry Nelson 01/09/2012 @ 10:52am

The so-called “occupy” movement has swept across every section of this great land of ours, spreading even to the humble farm where I grew up.The presence of our occupiers came ...

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Bald By: Brent Olson 01/04/2012 @ 9:53am

I have a solution to our political problems.  We just have to change our criteria for what we're looking for in elected officials.I used to say no one should be a ...

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Barn Again By: Jerry Nelson 01/03/2012 @ 10:21am

This extraordinarily mild and dry winter has enabled us to accomplish some remarkable feats. After the past few winters, we deem it a minor miracle to simply get into the car and ...

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Year of the child By: Brent Olson 12/20/2011 @ 10:34am

Here on the Olson Ranch this year would almost have to be considered The Year of the Child.  It was   only a little over a year ago when my new book was ...

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Jerry Nelson: looking back By: Jerry Nelson 12/19/2011 @ 10:26am

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and another year passes under my wheels.Where did the year go? This seems a fitting time to investigate that issue by perusing my ...

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Christmases past & By: Jerry Nelson 12/12/2011 @ 10:32am

Christmastime when I was a kid consisted mostly of waiting, waiting, waiting for the moment when we could finally open our presents. That and putting up with aunts and uncles and ...

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Cats & chickens By: Brent Olson 12/12/2011 @ 9:49am

I'm getting tired of hearing our politicians talk about stuff that doesn't matter. They need to start dealing with items of substance. For instance, when are they going ...

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Oatmeal and birthdays By: Brent Olson 12/06/2011 @ 8:13am

I just had a birthday.Number 57 in case you're interested. It made me think about oatmeal and the value of time.Let me explain. My youngest grandchild is only eight months ...

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Dear Santa By: Jerry Nelson 12/05/2011 @ 11:22am

Dear Santa,I have been a very good boy this year. “Good” is a pretty subjective term, isn’t it? “Good” compared to what? Who decides what “good” is, anyway? And by ...

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The overeating season By: Jerry Nelson 11/21/2011 @ 3:25pm

The ping of shirt buttons ricocheting off dining room walls all across this great land of ours heralds the arrival of the overeating season.There are many other signs of this ...

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Chainsaw By: Brent Olson 11/16/2011 @ 8:56am

Last week I was up on a machine shed roof with a chainsaw.It's not something I'm going to need to do again for a while.Here's the thing about machine shed ...

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Shots By: Brent Olson 11/08/2011 @ 11:53am

For reasons you probably wouldn't find particularly interesting, in a week or so my wife and I are going to Haiti. This wouldn't be noteworthy, except that Haiti is ...

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Tire troubles By: Jerry Nelson 11/08/2011 @ 11:51am

So I was driving along, minding my own business, when the left rear tire began to make that dreaded “wup, wup, wup” sound. A flat!It was my own dumb fault. Just days earlier ...

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