From My Window: Life in farming and ranching takes unique person; local quake happened

My windows must be a bit fogged after last week’s column about the Meeker School District, but why on earth would one want to make their living in the agriculture field—as either a farmer or a rancher. Both of those seem like such a lot of hard work…

My first job ever was as an 8-year-old snot-nosed kid working irrigation ditches on a family friend’s ranch near Powderhorn, Colo.
In early spring,…