a new heifer showed up on the farm, ear tag 21. the farmhand said it was purple. the farmer looked twice. he was used to orange ear tags. a good-looking heifer in his corral with a purple ear tag looked orange to him he called Dolores to see if she had lost a heifer. Dolores seemed to think she had. "let me look" she said. She had that intuition that she had lost one. intuition was valuable at these cattle prices. "is the tag a light blue?" the farmer squinted. his tags were orange and purple just looked like orange to him. ROY G BIV had a $2000 dollar differential between the spectrum at the going cattle price. The farmer's cell rang. it was Jason the county fence builder. "Jason, I've been meaning to get some fence built" "well, i can take a look. hey, you haven't seen a heifer anywhere have you" news must have gotten around the neighborhood. "that's not yours now is it" the farmer asked. "well now i can't be sure" jason backpedaled, weighing his fencing reputation with sky high cattle prices.

the answer to many things can be found at the boat ramp I hummed as i made my way up river, paddling my own canoe. after the paddle, there was a lone man putting in his fishing boat. 3pm on the Casio wristwatch. he was driving a work truck--probably got off early today. i watched with curiosity how he was going to get the boat off the trailer by himself. i pulled my canoe out of the water, he walked by and offered to help put it on top the car. "oh i got it, thank you". he walked by again, "how are you going to get that up there by yourself?" he lifted the other end of the boat on top the car. i noted the wedding ring. "thank you, friend" he got in his boat and motored into the spitting rain. i shuddered as the cold rain pecked against my windshield. i expected him to turn around and need help getting the boat back on. nope, the roar of the engine faded into the distance. he probably had an hour before picking up the kids at 5pm. rain was nothing to him. it looks like there are two options in life for men. go to the boat ramp anytime you want. or go to the boat ramp on a tight schedule with the wedding ring .