These were 40 feet tall on the north side of my drive. I had tree spaded in some spruce 15 feet north of these and needed to take the gnarly dirty cedar’s down. The cedars had been planted 30 years ago between some 60 year old Ponderosas before I owned the property. I have 200 acres of hilly pasture so believe me, I know how to deal with cedars.
I am one of those who have complained about coaching and have stepped up to take over the following year. It was great.
Is your issue with parents not staying the **** out in general or more so HOW they approach their concerns?
I tend to not have any issues with it personally, not recently.
I hope someone does that for me. I would love to just watch my kids and work with them 1 on 1 outside of practice after dealing with those brats all season.
Coaching a sport when you no longer want to coach it is brutal. Each practice seems like an eternity. You dread each game. You just want the season over.
Don't get me wrong, having a good coach so I don't have to put in that time (I have 5 kids) is nice. But at the same time, I did have fun running things my way.
I'm talking 3rd graders. Arguing they want to stay in the game. Squirting each other with water bottles in a game. One kid refused to move down on the bench so my next sub could sit next to me and then when I told him move or don't play the rest of the game, he cried for like 10 minutes and refused to go back in, while his dad sat next to him on the end of bench and consoled him. Then the dad was talking shit about me over that. And I was coaching by myself that tournament because the other coach was sick so I didn't have time to deal with their nonsense.
God isn't that the truth. Drive by your local Nebraska faculty parking lot and compare the number of pickup trucks to Pruises.
I know some big bearded burly guys who drive a Prius to work. Actually one drives a vw bug.
Yikes. That sucks. That dad definitely didn't help.
Mostly it's a blast if you like kids. They just want to play with their friends & have fun.
I’m only 42 but my wife and were talking about this the other day. I have a cush computer job and can do basically whatever I want so it’s like do I really need to stop when I’m 57 to golf or travel?
I think corporate farming is the most to blame. Whether it was Ted Turner years ago, China, the Amish (yes, the Amish) or your local land baron, these guys are driving up prices to a point where it's out of reach for most people. Tough to blame the sellers-- most people are going to sell to the highest bidder.
I also wanted to point out I agree with the folks about health insurance. My mom works with a bunch of docs at UNMC and they don’t generally fully retire until their 70s so they can keep their coverage. Those docs have more money at least salary wise than 90% of people.
If rural america wants to live they can’t sell. The parents either need money to make retirement better or even feasible and the kids often want to leave or have already left and don’t need a multi million dollar farm.
It’s tough to blame anyone in a market transaction. If I want your farm and I have the ability to give you ten million for it (and perhaps I have to to beat the other bidders), I’m not generally concerned with the fact that puts the new price per acre far above what a young farmer could pay.
You aren’t talking about what the numbers are, but what the numbers would be if people had your priorities.
Seems like we could have fixed this up years ago. But I think even your South Dakota gov noem waited until it was a problem before anything came up in legislation.
My brothers made fun of me for years for sticking with the USG. Sure they make more than me, but it was just recently my youngest brother finally admitted that the pension I get will be pretty nice and even though he has a good bit of money he’s going to have to use it wisely to match what I’ll get in passive income for essentially free.
The problem has really only surfaced since COVID in South Dakota and the sale of ag land to Chinese shell buyers accelerated this past year prompting legislation as quickly as their legislative bodies could get it done. FWIW Pillen is my governor.
Yeah, that pension is such a big deal. I know a lot of super unhappy teachers that want to quit but they also have "just 10 years left" so of course they are going to stick it out.
Assuming the US even has an election in November, no doubt, the other side is gonna toss the piece of shit out of there now and nominate someone like Big Mike to oppose DJT. At 8% in the polls, nobody is gonna vote for that asshat in office.
Absolutely a lot of smart people feel no election is in the offing. For a lot of legitimate reasons, too.
Which reasons - as this is the first I’ve heard of it? Admittedly, I’m not in the smart club.
I'd give you some reasons, but first I gotta see if the moderator is gonna put the kabosh on the whole political spin.
