Good morning.

Duane here, Dry Creek Rangler School.

A lot of rain last night this morning, but it's not raining right now.

The wind's blowing, but it's not blowing enough up here on the new place on the porch.

I don't think the sound's going to be, I don't think the sound's going to be

I don't think the sound's going to be a problem

I'm going to let you know up front what I'm going to do

that way if it's if you're not interested

and you can just not waste your time and get angry at me

I'm going to read a poem and I'm going to talk about it

you guys been on here, you know how important poetry is to me. And I'm going to read a poem

for you working guys and gals. Okay. And we're going to talk about it. And it's a reminder.

I went through a time here for a while back winter early part of

spring I wasn't sleeping really normally I'm a I'm a very good sleeper it's not something I've had

problem with for well since I was a kid.

But it got to where there for a while I was having trouble getting a full good night's sleep.

Here lately, that's not been the problem.

We got this new place and it requires a lot of work. And then the old place that we're renting down below requires a lot of work and then the old place that we're renting down below

requires a lot of work and and uh i'll uh you know get up of a morning and say okay

what are we going to do today to myself and it's like well we've got we so we've got three

pastures on the place now for the horses.

So I'm like, okay, I've got to get some mowing done in the pastures.

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