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The Stretch Gate

Posted on January 4, 2024 by saaribampo

This stretch gate looks like any of its kind in any landscape where livestock need to be kept in or out and where people do not have the means or inclination to invest in a more substantial barrier. This gate … Continue reading →

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Summer of 2023

Posted on October 27, 2023 by saaribampo

We are selling the farm. We bought the homestead and 80 surrounding acres in Pike Township, Minnesota, in 1989 from Inez Saari, widow of Arvo Saari. She could no longer keep up the place and was moving into Alice Nettell … Continue reading →

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Butter v. Chapo

Posted on July 17, 2023 by saaribampo

January 16, 2016 The U.S. media is obsessed with the most recent capture of El Chapo, a chubby man in a filthy T-shirt, and an American male movie star who is not a journalist and a Mexican female soap-opera star … Continue reading →

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Trust

Posted on March 15, 2023 by saaribampo

Our world is built on a shared trust in strangers who we hope are competent. From the earliest prehistoric trade routes to this very day, trust is implicit in the transport and exchange of goods and services. Without trust our … Continue reading →

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Welcome to America

Posted on February 9, 2023 by saaribampo

We arrived in Tucson just as the sun was setting and checked into the Best Western on the southwest corner of Stone and Speedway. We know the intersection well. When passing through Tucson or coming up from Mexico to run … Continue reading →

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