Sitting in the grain truck waiting for my brother to offload the next combine tank of winter wheat, I looked up at the cotton-ball cumulus clouds that dotted the Lonesome Prairie sky.
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Sitting in the grain truck waiting for my brother to offload the next combine tank of winter wheat, I looked up at the cotton-ball cumulus clouds that dotted the Lonesome Prairie sky.
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