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Junk Heap Mule Browse and the Fair Ground

Published August 1, 2019

Today a guy asked me, “why do you like mules?” I told him, “because they eat and drink less than a horse and they’re tougher.” What I really wish I could have shown him was Cracker teasing a grass snack from between some junk tires and batteries.

Mule Cracker grazing between junk tires searching for grass during cross-country mule ride through Nebraska
Cracker snack: it’s hard to tell there’s anything worth eating in that pile of tires but Cracker, being a hearty mule….
Mule Cracker eating grass growing next to pallet of batteries and gear box oil during Nebraska cross-country mule ride
….always seems to find something worth eating. Here, a mouthful of grass… Continue reading →
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Anselmo: The End of Farming

Published July 29, 2019

Mules Brick, Cracker and I have arrived in Anselmo and the end of farming in this part of central Nebraska.

Satellite view of Anselmo, Nebraska showing dividing line between green farmland and brown ranch land
Anselmo as seen from space: the dividing line between green (farm land) and brown (ranch land)
Downtown Anselmo, Nebraska with abandoned 1915 Peoples State Bank building on right during cross-country mule ride
Anselmo as seen from where I’m writing you. The building on the right is the old Peoples State Bank built in 1915. Now abandoned.

By “the end of farming”, no, I don’t mean they’re canceling the Husker corn crop this year. Rather, the mules… Continue reading →

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