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Feb 20
3 min

The Goodbye Girl

I didn’t quite know what I was going to do with a cotton trailer but there they were at one of the many junk auctions that I attend,....

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How Much Pleasure Per Acre Does Your Ranch Produce?

Jack Varian

Feb 6
6 min

How Much Pleasure Per Acre Does Your Ranch Produce?

My father was an early day pilot flying as a captain for Pan American Airlines. He signed on with Pan Am in 1927 to fly Trimotor Ford pla...

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If you want to brush your teeth you have to just start

Jack Varian

Jan 16
3 min

If you want to brush your teeth you have to just start

Lately I’ve been waking up early, like 4am and just thinking, some people call it noodling. Well this morning of 1/16/202I it got me to t...

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Jack Varian

Dec 7, 2020
4 min

The Best of Times

Camelot or “Paly High” were interchangeable for me. It was a mythical place, where that peaceful easy feeling could be found. It was a ch...

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Jack Varian

Nov 23, 2020
5 min

What happens without thought?

At this very moment oxygen is rushing into my lungs allowing me to do some thinking about what the future holds for “we the people”. Well...

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Jack Varian

Nov 18, 2020
1 min

The meaning of meaningful

I’m ready to leave now and where might you be going? Well on my Sunday morning hike with a blue sky above me into my mind came a question...

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Jack Varian

Nov 15, 2020
2 min

Loving life through work

I wish there was another word for work because it’s so weighted down with the idea that there is only toil and drudgery associated with i...

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Jack Varian

Nov 9, 2020
1 min

Where has all the middle gone?

Zealots both left and right we need you You shit disturbers of the status quo who call our attention to inequities of many colors You kil...

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Living in the land and not just on the land

Jack Varian

Oct 26, 2020
3 min

Living in the land and not just on the land

My journey from living on the land to immersing myself into the land started after attending a three day seminar.

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All living things are eating or being eaten at all times.

Jack Varian

Oct 18, 2020
4 min

All living things are eating or being eaten at all times.

Why do I find myself looking back often at my ancestors' earliest times when our somewhat frazzled planet wasn’t quite so frazzled as it ...

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Jack Varian

Oct 11, 2020
4 min

Have I got what it takes?

Last week a three day saga played out in the bowl of a toilet in what I call the back bathroom. As I was unzipping my fly making myself r...

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Jack Varian

Oct 3, 2020
2 min

EXTRA, EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT

Trump puts a smile on everybody’s face. It’s 10/2/2020 and I have just learned that President Trump and his wife Melanie Trump, yesterday...

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Jack Varian

Sep 27, 2020
5 min

Want to have more grass to graze?

Then you’ll have to improve your water delivery system. I believe that the cheapest way to grow more grass is to harvest what you already...

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Jack Varian

Sep 16, 2020
5 min

Oh, God!

As to all this marching, protesting and burning parts of our cities down, it’s only polarizing everybody so nobody can hear what the other o

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Managing our forests and grasslands can no longer be the sole responsibility of Smokey Bear

Jack Varian

Aug 29, 2020
4 min

Managing our forests and grasslands can no longer be the sole responsibility of Smokey Bear

Smokey Bear said “only you can prevent Forest Fires” so we followed his lead by adding ever greater numbers of people, material and equipmen

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Jack Varian

Jul 27, 2020
2 min

Don’t forget we need to keep on living

Folks we’ve got to get our civility and sense of humor back so that we might make better decisions about how we lead our daily lives.

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Today can be my “Freedom Day”, it’s my choice

Jack Varian

Jul 10, 2020
2 min

Today can be my “Freedom Day”, it’s my choice

Happy 4th of July, the day we honor our countries inception, we honor our right to choose and recognize there’s still nothing new under t...

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Jack Varian

May 4, 2020
3 min

The political side of the coronavirus

When the history books are written only then will we know for sure

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Jack Varian

Apr 15, 2020
3 min

Look who's back in style

I once knew an old cattleman who’s belt was made from a piece of old rope and his belt buckle was made by tying a square knot.

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Jack Varian

Mar 10, 2020
2 min

I’m coming out of the closet

I have before me a copy of The Stockman Grass Farmer, a newspaper that’s priority is grass first and livestock to follow.

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Jack's blog

The Goodbye Girl

How Much Pleasure Per Acre Does Your Ranch Produce?

If you want to brush your teeth you have to just start

The Best of Times

What happens without thought?

The meaning of meaningful

Loving life through work

Where has all the middle gone?

Living in the land and not just on the land

All living things are eating or being eaten at all times.

Have I got what it takes?

EXTRA, EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT

Want to have more grass to graze?

Oh, God!

Managing our forests and grasslands can no longer be the sole responsibility of Smokey Bear

Don’t forget we need to keep on living

Today can be my “Freedom Day”, it’s my choice

The political side of the coronavirus

Look who's back in style

I’m coming out of the closet