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Two years ago, when we were brainstorming “Day in the Life” ideas, someone, maybe it was me, mentioned spending the day with a group of pyrotechnics during the Gaines County Fourth of July celebrations. As expected, I was all in.

If I were to ask you who is the largest owner of farmland in the U.S., you might guess that it is perhaps one of the big conglomerates, like Monsanto, or Archer Daniels Midland, or more ominously, some foreign country like China. The Communist Chinese, after all, have slowly absorbed some of the most arable acreage elsewhere on the planet in their own silent takeover.

Well, at this point, I-told-you-so’s are a waste of time. But just for future consumption, never forget that we essentially ousted, with either enough cheating that we should be ashamed, or enough cheating for an historical flip of an election, an American president because... we didn’t like his Tweets? And we traded that man who was still our most consequential leader since Winston Churchill, for someone who will go down as the most disastrous president in our history.

On Saturday, I learned that iPhones do not ride well on the hood of a car. More importantly, there are many upstanding and honest people globally, and I was fortunate to meet one from Seminole this past weekend. His name is Carlos.