by Doug Emerson | May 6, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you are like many professional horsemen, finding the right people to help you in your business is one of your biggest challenges. That’s partly because candidates with horse experience are limited, the rate of pay in the equine industry is low in comparison...
by Doug Emerson | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
“No brag, just fact.” That’s what actor Walter Brennan would cackle as he played a cowboy character named Will Sonnett in a TV series of long ago that aired about the same time Star Trek’s Captain Kirk was starting on a five year mission. Will...
by Doug Emerson | Mar 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Probably not, for these and more reasons: 1. It takes too long 2. The roast slices would be small and chunky and unappetizing 3. The knife blade, not designed for slicing meat, could easily slip and cut you In plain words, it’s unwise and not something...
by Doug Emerson | Feb 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
“She’s a screaming crazy woman”, the boarding farm owner said in disgust, “and she is trying to make me that way, too. She’s just not logical and everything in the barn is a drama even though there is no stage!” Have you ever had a...
by Doug Emerson | Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Recently I was thinking about routines, patterns and assumptions and how they affect the way people move through their days, weeks and months. A memory flashback took me back to a kitchen scene in my fraternity house in college starring Juanita, the frat house cook....
by Doug Emerson | Jan 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
When agriculture was making the transition from horses as the primary farm power unit to tractors, leather straps and wood were replaced with steel angle and channel iron to bolt and attach farm tools like planters, plows and pickers. Eventually, every farm tool and...
