Dad's story on gliders

Saturday, March 18, 2023

I was raised pretty much around older folks close to Mom and Dad's age which was 40 to 50 when I was born. So when I got to that curious age of 8 to 10 I was talking to 60-year-old folks. Dad was born, raised and worked on cattle ranches that ranged in size from small places of maybe 1,200 acres to some that were in the 70,000-plus acre size. He had lived a hard life; so he was chock full of stories.

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