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7 hours ago
2 min

If only we could sell a cow like a car dealer does!

Why we in the cattle business would never see another poor day. But before a cow can be sold a State brand inspector must look at the cow...

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Jack Varian

a day ago
1 min

The Honorable Old Mr. Blue Oak

Living has thrown me some curves in my life, but in spite of it all I’ve enjoyed the journey. See Ya Jack

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Jack Varian

Apr 28
4 min

Finding a Proper Balance

It’s all in the eyes of the beholder. Surely this is an easy way to pick a fight with almost anybody as proper and balance are such...

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Buying Cattle, Down Old Mexico Way, 1970s

Jack Varian

Apr 12
7 min

Buying Cattle, Down Old Mexico Way, 1970s

The weather forecast for the day was to be cloudy with a slight chance for rain. But this chance of rain, instead turns to snow....

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Jack Varian

Mar 8
3 min

To Build a House Part Two

Continued from To Build a House A lifelong friend of mine who had become a notable architect in the design and building of many public...

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Jack Varian

Mar 7
14 min

To Build a House

Zee and I watched the ink dry on our signatures to the deed that would complete the purchase of the Taylor Ranch. We would be the new...

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Jack Varian

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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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Jack's blog

If only we could sell a cow like a car dealer does!

The Honorable Old Mr. Blue Oak

Finding a Proper Balance

Buying Cattle, Down Old Mexico Way, 1970s

To Build a House Part Two

To Build a House

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!