Putting On The Big Boots

Gearing Up for What Mattered

By DeAnn Kruempel
Posted 7/28/21

Brilliant gold took turns with dark green on the rolling South Dakota hillsides; fields of ripening small grains lay between corn and alfalfa. The thin stems bent to the wind in glorious sun-kissed waves. Oats. Wheat. Barley. Every year Dad planted cereal grains, which ripened in early August.

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