Be as it may, I am going to ask a question of my close relative and I want an honest answer. I want her to believe that I am always on the right trail and always on the brink of discovering the thing that will take away all the worries and frets that are associated with the meager occupation of being a cattleman.
I am going to ask her if she is a deep believer, I mean a believer in me -- a faithful and devout believer that I can and will do whatever is necessary to keep us from losing it all and drowning with it! I am going to ask that question later, much later!
In the meantime, I will endeavor to do all I can to carry out the superhuman ideal that she surely believes I am! That is my new resolution for the year. I am gonna be the superhuman kind of feller that I have always wanted to be, but the timing was never right.
I believe it is the right time now to create that persona! I have plenty to do around here. Keeping the offspring in line is a 24-hour-a-day job, but I also get my chores cleared away pretty quick now that the ungrateful ones do the grunt work, or most of it. I haul hay, check cattle and tell the offspring where they need to fix fence. I have the time to be a super do-it sorta person if I want to be, and I do!
I don't yet have in mind exactly what my next move is. I am gonna have to make a plan, outline the stuff that will make reaching that mark evident but effortless. I don't want to be caught gasping for air or red faced and panting after a little crack at digging up thistles in the yard or chasing bulls out of the yard!
I do not want to go to a gym to get into better physical shape. Besides, I sorta like my shape. I just need to jog around the pasture a few times and I will be fit as a fiddle!
I have given up some of the unhealthy junk food I was eating several years ago. I stopped eating more than three scoops of ice cream at a sitting, and you will never catch me eating all of the salad on my plate, especially those little hard toast things that are sure to be full of empty calories! I eat plenty of protein to build muscle and brain power. Meat, like beef and bacon, beans and my favorite vegetables, onions and spuds, are downright powerhouse foods.
It is my opinion, and everyone has one, it is necessary to take the time to contemplate a few new resolutions at the uncluttered beginning of a year. We are blessed to be here and we need to bless our feller men and women by being all we can be.
I am going to do my part! If you happen to see me sprawled out on a fence line somewhere, you can figure I am just watching tumble bugs, not gasping for air. Just carry on!
Bill is the penname used for the Gravette area author of this weekly column. Opinions expressed are those of the author.
Editorial on 01/14/2015