What a beautiful time of year this is to be living in Kingfisher County.

Wheat fields are changing hues from green to gold and will soon be ready for the harvesters.

The fields take on the appearance of green seas when they first head out and begin to wave in the breeze.

This time of year always reminds this writer of the hours of scooping wheat from one trailer to another because Dad just had to start cutting it a little early and the loads were too damp to take to the elevator.

All farm kids know that wheat containing too much moisture can explode through spontaneous combustion if it is stored wet and if it sets on a trailer (we didn’t have the big trucks that most farmers do today) too long it will be damaged by spoilage.

As a kid, we thought Dad could have waited a few days and we wouldn’t have to do all that shoveling. We didn’t have electric augers.

Dad probably thought the exercise would do us good.

Now we realize that Dad, who was responsible for feeding and clothing a household of five children and a wife, was taking precautions to avoid losing the crop to weather. A hail storm was likely always on his mind and we didn’t have government programs to fall back on. If we did, we can’t remember them.

The price of wheat at that time, as we recall, was a little over a dollar a bushel - maybe $1.25.

However, those dollars were crucial to a dry land farmer in southwest Oklahoma.

But we’ve gotten side-tracked.

We were talking about the beauty of Kingfisher County this time of year.

The pastures are beautiful this spring. The cows, who seem happy to be in belly deep grass with their beautiful babies, also slick and shiny, add to the picture.

Lawns, which were covered in snow much of February, are already bright green and need mowing a couple of times a week.

Family gardens are coming alive with sufficient moisture and warming soil.

To us, Oklahoma is one of the prettiest states in the union with its East to West topography containing everything from deep woods to wide open range.

There is plenty to appreciate about Oklahoma every season of the year. The distinct seasons make it all enjoyable.

Each time I visit a large city, I think “I’m glad I don’t have to live in this place.”

Remember the adage, “you can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”

Maybe that’s why Oklahoma is a sensible place to live - still full of country boys and girls.

Oregonian Not Happy With Protesting

Senior Editor Christine Reid flew to New Hampshire to visit relatives for a few days last week. On the flight there, she had a seat by a lady from Oregon who also was en route to New Hampshire.

They were visiting as they went along and the lady mentioned that she started her flight at Portland.

Christine asked her if she lived there. “No, the lady responded, “ and if I did I wouldn’t go back.”

Portland was one of the West Coast cities beset by rioting last summer.

There are many sensible people living in the West Coast states. They are just outnumbered by leftists in the metropolitan areas. The reasonable ones are subject to the lame-brained rules enacted by the leftist politicians - think California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Rep. Maxine Waters, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff to name a few.

The ex-Seattle, Washington, police chief, Carmen Best, who resigned last year in a dispute about funding cuts following months of turmoil in the city that included the occupation of a six block area by protesters, gave the corporate media the dickens recently when she appeared on the Jerry Ratcliffe “Reducing Crime “ podcast.

She was particularly incensed that the media glossed over Seattle’s “Summer of Love” CHOP zone dangers.

Seattle media often portrayed demonstrations as “mostly peaceful,” but the “Capitol Hill Occupied Protest” (CHOP) zone was not at all peaceful. There were two murders, several assaults, and a video showing one prominent activist handing out semiautomatic rifles from the trunk of a car to apparent “security volunteers” in obvious violation of state statute prohibiting such transfers without background checks, she said.

Early on during the protests, far left Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told a reporter during a live interview that the city would experience a “summer of love.” The flippant remark has come back to haunt Durkan and other city officials. Durkan is not running for re-election.

The media was so intent on defeating President Trump it turned a blind eye to the murderous frenzy that Seattle and many other cities led by left-wing advocates for turning the U.S. into another Third World trash pit.

How does a summer tour of Seattle, Toronto or Minneapolis appeal to you as a vacation plan with more protests possible?

Reports have surfaced that the Seattle Police Department has seen more than 250 officers go elsewhere or simply retire in the past year. Funds have been cut.