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Poems & lyrics celebrating Kansas Flint Hills land & people by Annie Wilson – the “Flint Hills Balladeer”

It’s Kansas Day! Happy 163rd birthday to our favorite state! We are lucky enough to live in the 5th largest county in the beautiful state of Kansas – and these are the 5 things you should know that You Are Here Agriculture Education teaches us about Greenwood County: 5. GW County is the 5th largest in Kansas 4. Only 4% of the Tallgrass Prairie remains in the world, and the majority of that is in the Flint Hills of Kansas.

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Patience is a virtue. That’s what we always hear anyway. Well it’s a virtue that can be hard to hold on to sometimes. At least in my experience. We have big plans that we can’t wait to come to fruition. We set goals and sometimes it’s hard to accept a slow go waiting for that goal to become a reality. We often think it’s all or nothing when it comes to goal-setting. We think we have to do this or that and stay hyper-focused. Well that’s not always necessarily the best or most successful way to achieve what you’re looking for.

One unique quality of farmers and ranchers is they work together as a family. Taking care of livestock and crops requires everyone in the family — even small children doing chores like feeding bucket calves, collecting eggs and feeding chickens — to be a part of the work.

The air temperature outside is two degrees and the snow flurries are beginning to accumulate. In times such as these, my Grandmother Lane would tell me that it was too cold to snow. I looked out my window and watched the dry snow float down, then blow across the sidewalks until it caught on a grassy surface. It would be a good morning for a nap if I

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It’s January and I have been watching the weather forecasts on television with increasing intensity. I listen, but often disagree with the forecast. So, I sit in my living room in front of the television set and talk back to the meteorologist. I don’t know when they stopped being weathermen and became meteorologist.

SNOW DAY!