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1 week ago | 
thefencepost.com | Milo Yield
Thank goodness for kindly readers coming to the rescue. When contemplating material for this week’s column, my old mind was coming up blank. Then, voila, I opened my email box and found the following humorous column from a reader in Saratoga, Wyo. Here’s his story, slightly modified. ***A well-weathered Wyoming cowboy, ol’ Tippit N. Wobble, had been out on a remote range camp for a week. When he came to town, he hit the liquor store and hit the liquid refreshments plenty hard.
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2 weeks ago | 
thefencepost.com | Milo Yield
I can never thank my faithful readers enuf for their voluntary contributions to this weekly column. This story comes to me from North Platte, Neb. “Milo, a few months ago I was called up for jury duty and got a controversial case. A wealthy rancher claimed his gun went off by accident while he was cleaning it, killing his wife and his best friend who happened to be sleeping in his bedroom at the time.
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2 weeks ago | 
ruralmessenger.com | Milo Yield
Good stories about humorous practical jokes are common at the daily Old Geezers’ Coffee & Gabfest. Here’s a good fishy practical joke as related by my new fishing buddy, ol’ Castin Krankitt. The story goes that a local Riley fisherman and his buddies decided to spend a weekend camping and fishing a nearby river. They spent several days getting ready for their “fishy” weekend. Saturday morning when they got to the river and after they all got settled, they turned to serious fishing.
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2 weeks ago | 
ruralmessenger.com | Milo Yield
In a highly regulated and zoned county, an ag building company was hired by an dairying company to erect a new building for milking cows. Of course, not a shovel could be turned until all the necessary permits were acquired and paid for. The builder proposed gray roof metal and sidewalls, but the all-knowing county planners and zoners were insistent that the builder use more expensive — and supposedly more appealing — colored sheets of metal.
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3 weeks ago | 
thefencepost.com | Milo Yield
Good stories about humorous practical jokes are common at the daily Old Geezers’ Coffee & Gabfest. Here’s a good fishy practical joke as related by my new fishing buddy, ol’ Castin Krankitt. The story goes that a local Riley fisherman and his buddies decided to spend a weekend camping and fishing a nearby river. They spent several days getting ready for their “fishy” weekend. Saturday morning when they got to the river and after they all got settled, they turned to serious fishing.
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3 weeks ago | 
ruralmessenger.com | Milo Yield
Body and facial tattoos have gone from being a rage a decade or so ago to being commonplace today. Everyone from basketball players to teens to grandparents, of both sexes, have some personal image or message indelibly imprinted or inked on their smooth or wrinkled hides. Personally, I have nary a tattoo on my ol’ bod and I never wanted one. I’ve never understood why tattoos became the “in thing.” To me, they sure don’t make anyone look more attractive or appealing.
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4 weeks ago | 
ruralmessenger.com | Milo Yield
Now’s the time of the year when farmers and ranchers in the Flint Hills burn their native tallgrass rangelands. It’s a necessary smoky task because fire as a necessity if the prairies are to remain productive. Done correctly and timely, the annual burn kills invasive trees like the eastern redcedar and other undesirables like sumac and buckbrush. The prairies respond to fire by immediately growing back tender green shoots of grasses and forbs that cattle eat like candy and gain weight like crazy.
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4 weeks ago | 
thefencepost.com | Milo Yield
Body and facial tattoos have gone from being a rage a decade or so ago to being commonplace today. Everyone from basketball players to teens to grandparents, of both sexes, have some personal image or message indelibly imprinted or inked on their smooth or wrinkled hides. Personally, I have nary a tattoo on my ol’ bod and I never wanted one. I’ve never understood why tattoos became the “in thing.” To me, they sure don’t make anyone look more attractive or appealing.
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1 month ago | 
thefencepost.com | Milo Yield
Now’s the time of the year when farmers and ranchers in the Flint Hills burn their native tallgrass rangelands. It’s a necessary smoky task because fire is a necessity if the prairies are to remain productive. Done correctly and timely, the annual burn kills invasive trees like the eastern redcedar and other undesirables like sumac and buckbrush. The prairies respond to fire by immediately growing back tender green shoots of grasses and forbs that cattle eat like candy and gain weight like crazy.
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1 month ago | 
ruralmessenger.com | Milo Yield
Now’s the time of the year when junior livestock shows are happening all across the U.S. Such shows, be they statewide competitions or local jackpots, are where future livestock industry leaders and breeders are developed. And, livestock shows can also be a source of humor. And, I’ll relate one such incident of humor that I witnessed decades ago. The prime players in this little livestock show saga were Myris Snipedown and Dr. Eiken Flert.
