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Being a hero is much like pulling off a successful rain dance. Timing is everything.

Now that the parties are over, let me be one of the first to welcome you to the new decade.

A: is for alfalfa. The nutrition guys used to call it the magic miracle feed. All classes of livestock just do better on a ration that includes at least 5 percent alfalfa. In a normal year it is the cheapest protein source around.

I received instructions the other day to be available by 6:00 Saturday evening for a birthday party for now six-year-old Ashton. There were four generations at the party. Charlie and Lois did the honors as the great-grandparents. Also present were Grandpa Troy, the boom loader, and Grandpa Brad, the old hay hauler, and their respective spouses, to whom the grandchildren are the neatest thing ever to happen.

Some of the tales I hear from the next generation are as interesting as things I had happen when I was hauling hay. About four years ago, the fellow who stole the heart of my oldest daughter spent the summer with us. He was attending college at the time, working on his MBA degree.

Stereotypes are bad. One of the sharpest ladies I know is a blonde. And she gets a good laugh at a good “blonde” joke. But the stereotype doesn’t fit her at all. So as I relate the next incident, bear in mind that this is not typical.