Although I grew up on a farm eight miles from the nearest town, I never experienced the wonders of attending a country school.
- Terry Woster
"Few experiences match sitting on the seat of a deep-throated John Deere 720 diesel and glancing back every few seconds to admire the way the freshly cut soil was sliding up the shiny plow shares and tumbling over onto the cut from the previous trip around the field."
- Terry Woster
Writing about prairie fires a couple of weeks ago got me to thinking just how precious water was to farmers on the plains. Even as a kid, I knew not to waste water or complain if a soaking rain washed out a picnic.
- Terry Woster
Late in April, on a terribly windy day, a wildfire blew up and scorched a strip of land almost three miles long across the rolling prairie where I grew up.
- Terry Woster
"Any day, any season, any year, nurses are on the clock, working their shifts somewhere."
- Terry Woster
"A landscape painter with any skill could make a striking picture from our place on the river bank. A good photographer with a camera – or maybe even an average photographer with a good camera – could capture images worth sharing with others."
- Terry Woster
"That’s one of the great things about being a daydreamer in high school. Anything seems possible."
- By Chevy-Lynn Vaske, K-State Extension
K-State veterinarian Aj Tarpoff explains cattle identification methods and why they are critical to herd management success
- Terry Woster
"Paul wound the clock each Sunday after church, as regular as, well, clockwork."
- Terry Woster
Terry Woster reflects: "It occurred to me the other day that being a legislative reporter is kind of like being a kid working on the farm."
- Terry Woster
The other day, for no reason I can explain, I remembered the time in high school when I won a silver medal for land judging. The only person more surprised than me was my vo-ag teacher.
- Terry Woster
"Every kid my age remembers when the jeans and shirts would come in from the line frozen stiff."
- Terry Woster
"I’m not a fighter, but one idle Sunday afternoon in Brown Hall, I got into what could have been a doozy."
- Terry Woster
"To reach his place, I had to wind through South Dakota’s Badlands on a series of cracked-surface roads with potholes the size of a kid’s swimming pool."
- Terry Woster
"A well-stocked junk pile on a farm is a vital asset in the business of getting by."
- Terry Woster
"I always considered Christmas at the Capitol to be one of the unnamed perks of my job as a statehouse reporter. ... I got to experience the festive scenery day after day as I went about the business of reporting the news."
- Terry Woster
Every now and then, a plot twist on some television show involves a person or a group of people living off the grid. I always think, “Hey, you should have grown up with me.’’
- Terry Woster
"At the gym as we warmed up that evening, Doc told us we were at high altitude, so we might get short of breath. Immediately, every guy on the team began gasping for air."
- Terry Woster
"It was home, not so much because we held the title, but because the land held our hearts and spirits."
- Terry Woster
"t the height of the rush, we could hardly keep up, and none of the kids liked a bottleneck on the porch steps. It was a wild, exhausting and amazing time."
- Terry Woster
"The back end of the combine spewed the thick cloud of chaff, and, without a wind to chase it away, it hung for most of a mile. When I eventually drove through it, it was like a sudden white-out on a snowy winter day."
- Terry Woster
As a farm kid, I was so eager to grow old enough to drive tractors and grain trucks and combines that it never occurred to me I was in the process of putting some good people out of work.
- Terry Woster
The other day as I walked along the river bank near our home, I came upon a small but pleasant-looking stand of sunflowers.
- Terry Woster
It isn’t leaf-raking time, but the other afternoon I stretched out in a hammock, studied the clouds and remembered doing the same thing after raking my lawn when we lived in Pierre.
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