2011 thoughts

What a year. In the face of disaster I learned you can find peace. In the face and midst of failure the good Lord will lead to a new and better situation in life.

I learned when you think you understand the Lord shoots across your bow to remind you don't and that he is in charge.

I learned to let go and let God. I learned to listen to my kids more....they have it figured out.

I found out who matters in life and I found out there about a dozen people in our lives outside our families who will come to your rescue and side and not leave you no matter what...period. We need to recognize those people and hug them and tell them how much they mean to us while we can. Adam has taught us there is not really a tomorrow until we get there.

2011 -
- the US got bin laden and left Iraq
- my business failed
- we said good bye to Adam Mock way way way too soon.
- I found my way back to a peace
- my kids grew physically and mentally
- I found out who is there when the shit hits the fan and more importantly who runs and hides.
- I found out I can actually lose weight lol

Let's make 2012 a good one.

My blog 2012

I am resolved to use this blog more in 2012. It's good therapy for me and helps me collect my thoughts better. I hope it will be good for others as well. I have found in the last 12 months that most of us are all going through or have gone through the same trials and triumphs in our lives and it helps to relate to others. More later today

I never realized how great Steven Jobs was until his death.....some more quotes:

"Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."

---Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

---Steve Jobs

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." ---Steve Jobs

‎"Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but... the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

--Steve Jobs

‎We should all listen to him more.....

Found this on a friends FB site today:

THE VOICE
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel that this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher,preacher,parent,friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you-just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.
SHEL SILVERSTEIN


I like it

Good quote

This is where I am in life right now.....dealing with the results going after what I wanted to do....but it was worth every damn minute....but glad to be moving on and up....

"Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price." --lane frost


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Teddy Roosevelt - One of my Heros

THE MAN IN THE ARENA
           Excerpt from the speech "Citizenship In A Republic", delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910 - download PDF 

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. 

Teddy Roosevelt

Good Advice from Bill Pollock

One of my most trusted mentors, advisers, friends and confidant, Bill Pollock, told me this last night:


"Unsure things that become sure are usually settling"


He could not have been more correct!


Thank you Bill!(Popsie)

A strong person is the one who knows how to be quiet, shed a tear for a moment, and then picks up their sword & fight again.


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Another William Sell - Tell it like it is quote

This morning Nancy has meetings so I am home with the kids. I was on the computer working and ordering and checking emails and doing Angus Assoc paperwork. William woke up and wanted oatmeal. I said, just a minute son.....

His response....

"Daddy, the oatmeal aint coming out of that computer and if you think it is you need to go back to college...."

Tell it like it is son....tell it like it is....

Another really good Mary Shannon quote from "In plain sight"

This one is very very good:

"There are times in your life when at the end of the day all you can do is turn out the lights, flop on your bed, and throw in the towel, raise the white flag, for some that kind of surrender is hard to even contemplate and harder to accept, but there's a dignity in that, in fighting to the finish, to the red faced bitter end, but in those moments, in bed, right when the lights go out, solace can be found, the very act of giving up becomes a starting point.....you clear your head, you still your beating heart, you navigate the rocky shoal of setting out again. Call it surrender, or serenity, it doesn't matter which, because the thing you never thought you'd do or say, or ever have to face, becomes more than what you have to do, it becomes the way it is......"

Mary Shannon
"In Plain Sight"

Quote I came up with

I normally don't like being mean....out right mean....but I thought of a good "kiss my ass" kind of quote this morning....a Scott sell original:

"you remind me of a brahma cross steer I once castrated....he thought he was still a bad ass....but had nothing to back it up with....."

I cracked myself up on a rough day if nothing else.....


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Daddy's 70th

Celebrated daddy's 70th at the lake! He doesn't look 70!

@LargerThanWords: When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

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Quail Ridge Milling and AG

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My theory as well

@DamnRightTweets: I don't regret anything because it's life's bumps and bruises that make you who you are. Without your past, you will never be YOU

So so true


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Cool

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Quail Ridge Milling and AG

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Chilling out

Daddy and sadie and william waiting on boat to get ready. Sadie just declared "daddy, me not fall in the water"

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Quail Ridge Milling and AG

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The difference time makes

It is amazing what time does and what it changes. People come and go in our lives, the reason we may not know until many years later.

As in anyones life I wish I could have known 15 years ago what I know now....then I fought change in my life during a lonely and turbulent time in my life...the mid 90s....I fiercely fought big changes that were occurring....my resistance to those changes caused very strained relationships with people close to me for a long long time....my dad in particular.....

I was so wrong to fight to those changes and in the last 10 years and especially the last 5 years those strained relationships have turned around 180 degrees.......if I had only known I would have never fought the change......while the relationships have become excellent and normal....it didn't all come full circle until today.....and it has.....thanks to the Good Lord....

We all wish we could change how we have acted on the past....but again it we wouldn't be who we are today had the past been different.....that one of the hardest things in life to comprehend......

Sorry for rambling...had to get it out...

Have a peaceful night



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Nice morning at the lake with daddy and lenore and the fam....

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Quail Ridge Milling and AG

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Mary Shannon Quotes

Mary Shannon is a character on in plain sight on USA network. Nancy and I love the show. The main character has awesome life quotes. Here are some of the better ones:

This one is one I really go by and I could have easily said myself:

Mary: In my experience, holding out for closure does nothing but prolong the pain. Stoics got it right. Lance the boil, rip off the bandaid, man up and get on with it.

“One of the most difficult moments in anyone’s life is when the fog of childhood lifts and we see, for the first time, our parents as people.” Episode 2.3 — Mary Shannon Voice Over

“Perhaps the most difficult choices to make are the ones that deny us those things our heart wants most. Because as it’s been said, “Without reason nor prudence the heart wants what the heart wants. And more often than not it will not be denied.” Episode 1.09 — Mary Shannon Voice Over




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Good quote

Focus on what you have now. What's done is done. Yesterday is over. — @yemimargaret


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6/28/11 21:20 We're not perfect. Any of us. We make mistakes, we screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

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Quail Ridge Ag

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: In every bad situation, fate gives you a second chance to make everything right.Some take it, others leave it, and most don't even see it.

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Quail Ridge Milling and AG

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This is what happens when you forget to completely put a camp fire out and you are in the middle of a drought......yes...I am an idiot...

Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone

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Another good one.

@DamnRightTweets: I can't promise things will be solve now at this moment, but I can promise that I'm with you and so is God, we will go through it.

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Quail Ridge Milling and AG

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Todays thought of the day from me

There are things in life we just won't ever understand. That's the way it is. We just have to deal with and move on.

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Quail Ridge Milling and AG

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My exact philosophy

This quote is how I look at a lot of things in life. I always have....first time I have every heard anyone else share the same thought! I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end – Drew Barrymore

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Sunday morning thoughts

It is amazing how now that we don't open on Saturday's and I have Saturday's at home and at the farm....how much more I feel like I am home more. Just being home those 4 hours on Saturday morning has made a huge difference.

Yesterdays fire at the pond was a interesting. We got about 300 ft of hose down there though and got it hooked to the water line we had run last summer to the pond and out the fire out unassisted before it got on the neighbors land.

Another welcome to the ridge moment. If it can happen .....it will happen to us!

Just finished cooking breakfast....boys are playing the Wii and Sadie and Haynes doing their best to drive them crazy! Oh paybacks.....

Enjoy this Sunday...

More to come....

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@LiterallyYes, 6/25/11 21:48

I & D ♔ (@LiterallyYes) 6/25/11 21:48 When growing up,everything that you never thought would change, changes, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.

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Tweet from @LiterallyYes

@LiterallyYes: In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have & the decisions we waited too long to make.


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Tweet from @quailridgeag

@quailridgeag: "@AncientProverbs: Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. -Chinese Proverb"

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Tweet from @Inspire_Us

@Inspire_Us: People will forget what U said, people will forget what U did, but people will never forget how U made them feel -Maya Angelou

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@AncientProverbs, 6/20/11 22:08

Motivational Quotes (@AncientProverbs) 6/20/11 22:08 Give advice; if people don't listen, let adversity teach them. -Ethiopian Proverb

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A really good one:

@Inspire_Us: Don't cry because its over. Smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss

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Quail Ridge AG & Livestock, LLC

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Lunch

William and I picked and shucking sweet corn for fathers day lunch.

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Quail Ridge AG & Livestock, LLC

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Kids Sunday at Buck Creek

to celebrate a great VBS....kids are sunning the service in our brand new building!
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Quail Ridge AG & Livestock, LLC

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William'isms

Our 8 year old William is fast becoming known for his hysterical but sometimes annoying quotes/utterances. Unfortunately I am afraid he gets his "call it like I see it, tell it like it is" attitude from me and I hope it mellows....it is good people know where you stand and people know what you are thinking, but sometimes it really upsets people and makes them mad....I know....trust me

Yesterday we disciplined Josh over something so trivial I dont even remember what it was. He declared he was running away and struck out walking down the driveway.

When he was about 50 yards from the house.....we heard William yell:

"It  would be a lot easier if you would ride your bike instead of walking!"

Not worried about Josh being serious or about him running away.....just pointing out the "way he saw it"

Nancy and I are still laughing about it!

I love my kids....

Fathers day

All the kids brought me a card this morning. Even Haynes walked in with some help with one!

I am so blessed with 4 wonderful yet crazy children and a wonderful wife.

Life truly isnt cut and dried or black and white. It isnt like the "book" we think it should follow when we are young. It is a give and a take, an ebb and a flow, it is grey. It can be tough, hard to understand, and yet rewarding and bless us all in the same moment in time.

We only get one trip around....so thankful to be on the trip with my 4 and Nancy.....and wonderful friends....




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@AncientProverbs: What cant be cured must be endured. -English proverbs

Got this off twitter this morning. Pretty damn good assessment of what we have to do a lot in life.

Little Life Lesson

My mother in law sent me this in an email...it is too good not to share....this is so true about life...so thankful for all who have helped me in life.....

"A JOURNEY CALLED LIFE"

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall
to see the farmer and his wife open a package.  

"What food might this contain?", the mouse wondered.
He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. 

Retreating to the farmyard, 
the mouse proclaimed this warning : 

 "There is a mousetrap in the house!  

There is a mousetrap in the house!" 

The chicken clucked and scratched, 

raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse, 

I can tell this is a grave concern to you, 

but it is of no consequence to me.  

I cannot be bothered by it." 

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, 

"There is a mousetrap in the house!  

There is a mousetrap in the house!" 

The pig sympathized, but said, 

"I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse, 

but there is nothing I can do about it 

but pray.. 

Be assured you are in my prayers." 

The mouse turned to the cow and said, 

"There is a mousetrap in the house! 

There is a mousetrap in the house!" 

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, 

but it's no skin off my nose." 


 So, the mouse returned to the house, 

head down and dejected, 

to face the farmer's mousetrap 

. . . Alone.. .. . 


  That very night 

a sound was heard throughout the house 

-- the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. 


  The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.  

In the darkness, she did not see it.  

It was a venomous snake 

whose tail was caught in the trap. 


 

The snake bit the farmer's wife. 



 The farmer rushed her to the hospital.    



When she returned home she still had a fever. 

Everyone knows you treat a fever 

with fresh chicken soup. 

So the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard 

for the soup's main ingredient: 



But his wife's sickness continued.  

Friends and neighbors 

came to sit  with her 

around the clock.  

 To feed them, 

the farmer butchered the pig. 

                   

But, alas, 

the farmer's wife did not get well... 

She died. 

                    

So many people came for her funeral 

that the farmer had the cow slaughtered 

to provide enough meat for all of them 

for the funeral luncheon. 


 And the mouse looked upon it all 

from his crack in the wall 

with great sadness. 

  
So, the next time you hear 

someone is facing a problem 

and you think it doesn't concern you, 

remember --- 



When one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. 

We are all involved in this journey called life. 

We must keep an eye out for one another 

and make an extra effort 

to encourage one another. 

                   

YOU MAY WANT TO SEND THIS 

TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER 

HELPED YOU OUT...  

           
AND LET THEM KNOW 

HOW IMPORTANT THEY ARE. 

Rain - Precious Commodity

I swear a tenth of rain feels as precious as an ounce of gold or bushel of corn as things are now....we just had less than a tenth of an inch of rain.....but it was sooo nice...first rain in 4 weeks.....and that makes about 4 tenths now in 8 weeks.....every little but counts and every little bit is a blessing from the Good Lord.....it is amazing how tied to this earth we are....when rain doesnt come people get pissy and upset easily, depression and anxiety increases even  in non Ag people....our connection to earth and its cycles is awesome.

Ok...the 10 month old and the 3 year old got in a rolling on the floor fight over the Ipad. At a loss for words! Lol. Not sure what that says about this generation we are raising except that they won't know what a pen and paper are!
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Results of a drought

Lawn at church. Completely dead due to drought. I don't think I have ever seen it quite this dry....ever.....the cycles of life.....it is amazing to watch nature and its cycles and compare it to the cycles in our own lives....
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Corn Today

Corn...bought here today is $9/bu. August 2010  it was $3.85/bu. Damn tough.

This Blogs Purpose

I have always wanted to write. Mama always said I could write well, never believed it. But I have always had the urge to write about life. Twitter and Facebook and now this are my outlet. I hope to write a book from this one day. 


For some reason writing down experiences good and bad has always been good for me. In college I wrote them down on paper, then in microsoft word, now I use Twitter and Facebook as an outlet. I have always been accused of wearing my emotions on my sleeve and being an open book and emotional, I can't help it....I am....no apologies.....I am emotional and show it openly....thats the way it is.


This Blog is about the trials, successes, failures, and escapades of running a small agribusiness, a cattle farm, a cattle processing service, and raising a family. I hope one day to turn it into a book. 


It is dedicated to my family, friends, and the most dedicated group of employees anyone could have. My only regret is not having started it earlier. I will try to share some of the crazy stories from the past 2 years as we go along. The blog got its name form a saying me and my employees have and use everytime another unbelievable or wacky event happened..."Welcome to the 'Ridge"


Thanks for reading


Scott