2025 Fall Farm Outlook Lincoln Daily News Oct 2025 Page 21 worry about sending all those utensils. So…I wonder…. maybe next time I won’t do warm soup, beef n’ noodles and apple crisp with ice cream like last time. But it was still fun! Oh, I can’t wait to get dirty, tramping through the fields, wearing my boots and jeans, and putting my ball cap on backwards all the while not caring about how dirty I get. It’ll be so much fun! One early Saturday morning, while my farmer husband was out doing what a farmer does, looking at a field or playing around with some equipment, I was doing my weekly cleaning, because that is what a farmer's wife does so early on the weekend. While moving things around, I noticed a stack of magazines in the bottom of an old crock in the corner of the room. So, I started looking a little closer. Aww…farmers' magazines. What a good way for me to ‘brush-up’ and re-acclimate myself to what I remembered from high school. It couldn’t be that hard…could it? Lincoln Community High School isn’t really a small school, I’d say, I would consider it a semi-large school and even back then it still integrated several smaller towns and many rural farms. I don’t know what the exact ratio was but felt that there was a great mix of the city and rural kids. So many of my friends were from some sort of grain or livestock farm, and I was at their houses many times throughout the years. They were all in the farm-related classes at school, and I heard about all their projects. I didn’t participate, but I could still be considered somewhat involved through them…right? And at the end of every summer, the meeting place was the Logan County fair where even though I wasn’t in
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