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INTRODUCING HALEY SHORE!
"Being a farm and ranch kid is HARD.
Being a farm and ranch kid is...
-Warming up half frozen calves with your own clothes when you have no towels around.
-Helping with chores after you had just gotten off work yourself.
- Friday night might not mean going out, but breeding or working cattle instead.
-No making plans in July and August because those are harvest and fair months.
-Farmers tans in senior pictures (personal experience)
-Seeing your parents age a little bit faster than you’d like too, because after all, this is hard work and hard on the body.
-Learning how to drive farm equipment far before you can get a permit.
-Often losing feeling in your fingers, toes, and nose from being cold.
-Eating dirt was how you got such a good immune system.
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Being a Farm and Ranch kid is also...
-Growing up faster than most but being okay with it because you’re independent.
-Learning that farming and ranching is a crazier version gambling that you can’t find in a casino.
-Acknowledging that God has a plan for everyone and everything. From each wheat stalk all the way to the struggling twin baby calves.
-Being scared to ever go swim because your friends could gain a tan just from the sun reflecting off your legs from wearing jeans 25/8.
-Gaining a first-name basis relationship with all the guys who work at the Co-Op.
-The rare vacation is x10 more meaningful than if we had taken them often.
-Coffee becomes your main water source & you gain a Caffeine addiction by the time you’re 14.
-Smelling a little more ripe than the next person over in church because well, you don’t eat before the animals do.
-Tractor Time means one-man concerts that allow you to sing the same Shania Twain song for the third time in one hour.
-Your most expensive pair of shoes are your mucks or cowboy boots.
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Being a farm and ranch kid is by far one of the most rewarding things I could ever ask to be. Through all the struggles, trials, and rainy days, there’s always a smile, good sale day, and rewards to follow. I’m so glad that God has made me the person I am & gave me this life to live. So what if I don’t have the crazy party stories or the cool vacation pictures or even the ability to keep white clothes, well, white? I have the memories, love for the land, and love for God that could make up for all the parties, white clothes, & Bora Bora trips I could ever wrap my head around. So long live the young cowboys, cowgirls, ranch hands, and barn brats."
Today's guest wrote those words after a long day of ranch work in Kansas. Talking with her step-father in the evening after work he made a comment to the effect of he wished that everybody knew how hard ranch life was. He fell asleep in his recliner shortly after that, and Haley started thinking about that statement.
Like inspiration often does, the words written above came to her at that moment. So, she wrote them down. The next question was, how would she share them with the world?
Haley has a Facebook account, and we all know there are negatives and positives to social media. Well, one of the positives is being able to share positive things, and that is exactly what Haley decided to do. She put her words out there for people to read, and they sure did.
Haley is from Kansas,
