Looking Beyond the Manure Pit
In the lower left of this blurry picture you can see the concrete manure pit (just behind the cow looking at you). Looking Beyond the Manure Pit (Why I Decided to go to College) O ne benefit from growing up on a farm, but with parents that valued education, was that it gave all nine of us boys an incentive to go to college. None of us liked to farm, it was hard work and it could be difficult to make ends meet. So when the time came, each of us headed off to college and worked hard in hopes of being presented employment opportunities that were more enjoyable than farming. The first time I remember deciding that I wanted to go to college was the summer after my brother Brian graduated high school and was preparing to go to Brigham Young University (BYU). That summer there was also a construction project underway on the farm to put in a manure pit. We had owned dairy cattle for a few years, but we needed a ready location to push the manure when we cleaned out the corrals...