The Observer

Short pants and sombreros

By Randy Bearden

An old friend was passing through and stopped by the farm to say hi. We talked awhile about old times and shared a few laughs. Then he said that I was the only rancher he’d ever known that worked his farm in short pants. I told him the hotter it gets, the more clothes i take off and the bigger the hat I put on and if the temperature tops out at 100 degrees or more, one would likely see a wrinkled up old naked farmer out checking his cows in a sombrero. He said his goodbyes and promised to stop by again around Christmas, when he was certain things had cooled off around here.
Randy Bearden is a fourth generation dairy farmer from Vincent, Alabama.

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