Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks
For the past 35 plus years, I have fed the cattle in the evenings after work and most times struggled with the dark in December and January. The road that goes up the hill to the pastures is mud and rutted from taking hay up to the cattle, and I barely made it up with hay last week.
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