5 Things We Know On A Sunday – Scare The Hell Outta Your Neighbors – Put This In Your Yard… Drink Up – Cider Lovers, Top 3 Things That Happen In October, We Need To Talk/But Can’t – The Sad Reality Of Our Lack Of Rationality & You Don’t Get Eggs Every Day!

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5 Things We Know On A Sunday

1. Halloween yard decorations are out in full force in Lubbock this weekend. I’m impressed. I’m old enough to remember going to a school “Halloween Carnival” and not some sort of Fall Festival garbage. It’s Halloween. Roll with it. That said, want to amp up your yard decorations…. put out something really scary.
   

2. Apple Cider is a great drink. We should embrace it year ’round. Just like Egg Nog, Cider has been relegated to a small niche of the calendar by forces we cannot fathom. The Anti-Nog, Anti-Cider Crowd must be very powerful. Fight them! That and Boo Berries Cereal should be available year ‘ round as well!

3. Top 3 Things That Happen In October: No. 3. The World Series. Most of it anyhow… That the Fall Classic finishes in November now is one more reason Major League Baseball hates baseball… No. 2. Great looking West Texas cotton crops, ready to be stripped. Not every year and not for every farmer, sadly, but the look of cotton in the field some October days is like an early snow on the landscape. Awesome to see. This year… a rough year for South Plains farmers Pray for them and all Ag Producers. No. 1. “It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”. This needs no explanation.

4. What does it say about us as grown-ups that we think we can’t talk about politics, religion and sports in polite conversation with so-called friends and family? Does it mean those issues are vitally important or that we are so inept at intelligent discussion without resorting to base, emotional outbursts we can’t handle the moment. I know which way I’m going on this one….

5. I spent far too many minutes Saturday afternoon trying to analyze why our hens haven’t been laying any eggs for the last five days. I tried to place myself in their spot, what could the reason be…then I was reminded that sometimes hens don’t lay eggs. Next time you over-analyze life, remember the chicken. You don’t get eggs everyday. Be glad when you do and don’t over-think life.

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Hyatt