Howdy friends and neighbors. Well, here it is Sunday night at about nine o’clock, or wait, it’s ten o’clock. Now lets see, spring up and fall down. No, fall backward into a pile. No, spring out of your fall jeans due to the holiday meals. No, spring high winds and fall dust storms. Now, what time is it again? Shoot, I don’t know. All I know is the sun is down for the night and maybe by next Sunday all the clocks in my house will read the same. Daylight savings time is about as big a pile of day old bologna as global warming.
I seriously doubt that very many people have heard about what more than 100 environmental scientists have concluded at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change this past week. (Thanks Trent Loos for the heads up.) The boob tube news reporters are too busy telling us we only have a few years until the earth burns up to notice that we are again headed for an ice age. Yep! Okay, since 1971 to 1998 the earth has warmed. All scientists concur with that statement. But what we haven’t heard is the latest, that for the past 10 years, the net gain on temperature increase has been zero to slightly less. Matter of fact, evidence shows that the earth has actually cooled this past decade.
The scientists at the conference also concluded that man didn’t play enough of a role in the climate change to quantify. Would you believe that it is the sun that is causing the temperature on the earth to change? I love what my ol’ uncle Wayne said about global warming and it being man’s fault. He said, “Warm the earth? Heck, I can’t even keep my little house warm. Let alone, warm the earth!”
Have you heard on the major news networks that polar ice is gaining? Have you heard that the polar bears are doing just fine? There are more polar bears today than there were 30 years ago. I sure haven’t heard any of the truth on major news outlets, but I did hear that Al Gore has started up his new carbon trading company so he and Tipper can pay the electric bill on their mansions. Again, I’m just a pea-brained cowboy, but the ones that are blowing about global warming stand to make a pile of money off the so-called effects yet they don’t do anything about their man made causes.
I have a question to ask all my mechanical minded readers out there. I seem to have an unusual cause and effect on my old feed wagon (affectionately known as Ol’ Tan). I’m not sure but when I go to roll my (hand cranked) driver side window down, it somehow opens my door! I wasn’t aware that those particular inner working parts came in contact with each other. To add to the information gathering process, it takes two hands to roll the window down, one to run the crank and another to cross over your body and straighten the glass so it will slide properly into the unknown. All this must be done while staying in between the “bar-ditches” with the precise, athletic, cat like reflexes of your left knee steering the wheel. The right leg has to stay mashed on the accelerator to keep the oil-field truck I pulled out in front of from squeezing Dottie, my cow dog, off the back. All while doing the shoulder squeeze and talking on my “can you hear me now” phone, drinking Dr. Pepper, listing to the latest farm news report and avoiding those un-educated armadillos! The above mentioned efforts are all necessary so I can get to the coffee/gossip shop. Can anyone out there help me with my window? Contact me at http://www.whatsundermyhat.com
I’m Monte Tucker, and that is what’s under my “multi-tasker of the year” hat.
Mr. Tucker,
Thank you for some common sense in todays world. My husband & I both look forward each week to receiving the Cheyenne Star paper & reading your column.
Thank you for making us smile, laugh, be thankful, but most of all that we aren’t the only ones that have the thoughts, you do too!!!
I grew up in Roger Mills Co., OK & wouldn’t trade my upbringing for anything. The people are friendly & supportive & always willing to help.
Thanks,
Don & Jean
BTW–my sister, Joan says you’re a great help during the stock shows. :>) She enjoys being around you & your sense of humor.
Monte
You have not changed a bit! i loved reading these! Take care, an old friend from Proconn, Shawn B
1’st let’s talk truck repairs, you don’t say what brand “Ol’ Tan” runs under other than he’s “all American” which gives us C, D, F, G, & maybe I, if it”s old enough, & the driver side window sticks in the guides which are probably worn out & gummed up from dust & sand blows AND the “internal riser mechanism” is probably about shot too. These 2 sites have the parts & know how to get “Ol’ Tan’s” windows back to operating condition, hate to advertise BUT I’ve used them for decades & thought any DECENT vehicle owner should have a stack of their catalogs & their URLs on the fav. list. www. lmctruck. com/ & www. jcwhitney. com , [take out the spaces;}there’s a host more of them out there, these are among the better1’s – in my book. Now fix the window so we don’t lose your sorry rump to an armadillo filled bar-ditch full of politicians promises that some sewage truck has just spilled or “NONE OF THE ABOVE” will run over you.
While I’m in the “gripe mode” tell that sorry a—d individual that claims to be a “BIG Spider” to get off it’s lethargic derrierre & slam the rest of your articles into this site ASAP so we have something decent to read.
The cure for FEDERAL politicians is that we ALL need to go there for a minmum of 2 years, get their benefits & medical care for the rest of our life then we could find something decent to do with it. Oh, yeah – only natural borns & working people need apply for those positions, we know how to handle that stuff [$$], the others just lay around like dead possums in the road anyway & need to be shoved off into the “bar-ditches”.
TENNJAL