Welcome back to Close Reeds here on the Close Reeds Podcast Network. I'm David Kern, and I am joined currently by Adam Andrews.

Heidi White will be joining us here in a little bit.

But Adam, welcome back to the show.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks, David.

Good to be back.

So we're here to discuss, as we have been the last few weeks, the last handful of weeks,

we're here to discuss Ralph Moody's Little Britches, subtitled Father and I were ranchers.

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