I got this at least twice as an email. I thought I better share it.

Actual ‘Letter to the Editor’ from the February 6th edition of the
Wichita Falls , Texas Times Record News…

Dear IRS,

I am sorry to inform you that I will not be able to pay taxes owed April 15, but all is not lost.

I have paid these taxes: accounts receivable tax, building permit tax, CDL tax, cigarette tax, corporate income tax, dog licence tax, federal income tax, unemployment tax, gasoline tax, hunting licence tax, fish ing licence tax, waterfowl stamp tax, inheritance tax, inventory tax, liquor tax, luxury tax, medicare tax, city, school and county property tax (up 33 percent last 4 years), real estate tax, social security tax, road usage tax, toll road tax, state and city sales tax, recreational vehicle tax, state franchise tax, state unemployment tax, telephone federal
excise tax, telephone federal state and local surcharge tax, telephone minimum usage surcharge tax, telephone state and local tax, utility tax, vehicle licence registration tax, capitol gains tax, lease severance tax, oil and gas assessment tax, Colorado property tax, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma and New Mexico sales tax, and many more that I can’t recall but I have run out of space and money.

When you do not receive my check April 15, just know that it is an honest mistake. Please treat me the same way you treated Congressmen Charles Rangle, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank and ex-Congressman Tom Dashelle and, of course, your boss Timothy Geithner. No penalties and no interest.

P.S. I will make at least a partial payment as soon as I get my stimulus check.

Ed Barnett

Wichita Falls

I just love warm days with mild breezes, this time of the year.

I turned the 3 fillies out yesterday, so they have been standing around waiting to get let back in for hay and grain, rather than go fend for themselves. Kind of remind me of the people who think this new stimulus package is really going to be great. Sure, just wait for the great big master to hand out some scraps, rather than go out and try to make a living.

What a changes a few hours can make. We went from cold to in the 40’s, from a white yard to a yard with water running thru’ it. Here’s a few recent pictures.

going on here. Weather is warming some. Supposed to get up in the 40’s the next few days. Hopefully most of the snow will melt off. I am still not plumb healed up, but am better. Now if I could just get all my work done! Not a chance!

0 this morning when I went out to plug the tractor in. Snowing with about 2 inches on the ground from yesterday.

I need to catch a ride in to town with the neighbor lady who works with Cindy and do a little business. Hope the roads are okay. Bet they are or Cindy would have called or not gone in to work, tho’ she missed a few days with her sickness. Mine is getting better. Feel like I am runing at about 80%.

Thank you all for the kind words and prayers!

Caught some bug and feel like crap.

This is the beginning of our celebration of Lent. 40 days before the passion and Easter. A time for fasting, prayer and renewal.

Today while running a yearling filly into the back of the shed to work with her, I stepped on a patch of ice that the horses and I have pretty much avoided all winter. The filly made a move to escape, so I went to counter her move and bam! I was on my side on the ice before I knew what happened.

I have a very sore wrist and of course it is the one on my right hand that I tool leather with. And of course I have been trying to tool some leather. Oh well, I’ll find something else to do until it feels a little better. Gramma has a cold and seems to be miserable. Well, at least more miserable than normal! 😉

Don’t any of you tell her I said that or I will be toast! LOL

to post about. Weather is slowly warming, but not as quick as most of us want.

I am getting tired of reading about all the people who are not happy with the new prez and what is going on in Washington. Most of these people voted for these Congress people and this President, so why are they so startled or puzzled by what is going on?

With just a small amount of investigation, they could have looked at the track record of all these people and known with a certain amount of certanty, that this is exactly what this bunch of greedy pin heads were going to do!

Grow up people and live with your choices! Even tho it will cause this once great country to falter and stumble. I pray it doesn’t fall.

By the way, those of you with no survival skill? Better get some. I mean it.

Reminds me of Jim’s statement about talking at the office with a group of coworkers and they were all debating the skills they would need to survive a melt down of society, so to speakl. One guy said, “I have a 12 gauge shot gun and know how to use it. I can get anything else I need with that.”

Too true!

Went out in the afternoon the other day and worked with the bay filly. Then went out this afternoon and worked with her again and also the red dun filly. Both showed lots of progress.

I went up north yesterday and hauled a bull to a feller and dropped off a pair of my boots at the boot lady’s place, to get them re-soled. Road was sloppy in places. Seen some Bald Eagles. Gabe went with me. Gus has some kind of sickness and has spent most the day setting on Gramma’s lap. He did set on mine for a bit while I fed him ice cream. Yeah, they used to tie a steak around my neck to get the dogs to play with me when I was a kid too! 😉