Troy
Koester's Rural Roots - Winter Views
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This is a photograph
of a weathered overhang and shelter for my 4-H steer. All of our corrals
are lined with windbreak, after windbreak after windbreak. You can see
the irrigation wheel lines in the background. Red barns and old granaries
dot the landscape on our farm.
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This penned Red Angus
bull peers at me from his corral. This bull likes people, you could
even pet him if you wanted to.
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The bull on the right
is one of the biggest bulls I have ever seen in my life. He is friendly
too, and if he is lying down, you could sit right on top of him if you
wanted to.
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This is a newly constructed
windbreak and it looks quite weathered already. It blocks the howling
north west winds, as I look east to our pasture.
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Gypsy and Ginger are
on movethey worry about my camera flash.
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Our Red Angus Bull interrupts
his breakfast to peer at me.
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Frost covers our farm
in the early evening. This is our landit is east of the 21 highway
and just 10 minutes south of Rockyford. (Maybe 15 minutes - it depends
how fast you are going.) My dad originally farmed the land far off in
the distance. My uncle still lives thereUncle Gordy has lived
there all of his life.
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Long running coulee
with a creek running through itthis is our pasture land for our
Red Angus and Semitol cattle. This creek freezes over in the winter,
and then it floods. We use it as a skating rink.
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©2003
Rob Procter and Golden
Hills School Division #75
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