IOWA HEREFORD BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

Greetings

Well back to yo-yo weather. One day cold snow and the next 50 degrees. Only thing I can say is every day that goes by is one day closer to spring.

What an evening I had! We had just finished a great sale at Kenny Angus in Odebolt, Iowa and headed to De Su Angus in Fremont, Iowa and landed in Altoona, Iowa. Well, when ol’ Mike gets close to Altoona, we head to one of my all-time favorites “The Big Steer.” As usual, we had to stall for a few minutes for adult beverages in the bar while waiting for our table. I’m sure that there has been lots of intelligence spewed out in that little bar and we were able to add more intelligence to that.

Our waitress for the evening was awesome, Lisa did an outstanding job keeping us all in line, especially me. I can be a little hard to handle when ordering food, mostly just picky. As we were finishing our second adult beverage and waiting to order, and I with my back to the rest of the steak house (which I don’t like) some of my hometown locals snuck up behind me, kinda spooked me. Clint Douglas and wife Mindy, Cliff Aupperle and bride Julie were the culprits that spooked me. It was great to see them and let them harass me for a bit. Our little group consisted of Andrew Swanson better known as Deer Hunter, birthday boy, Adam Conover, American Angus Association, Dustin Carter and wife Kate, Dustin was our auctioneer the last two days.

On to the food, bacon wrapped scallops and onion rings. That started this meal and as usual I ate them like it was the last meal I would ever eat. Then it was the salad and still shoveling in food like there was no tomorrow. Next, the main course: my six-ounce steak Deburgo, with a side of hash browns with added onion. Wouldn’t you know it, ol’ Mike was almost full with the good stuff left. In my opinion, we need to reverse the order of these great meals, let’s start with the main course first, then go to the roughage and appetizers so that we have room for the really good stuff and chase it with the roughage and appetizers. Then if you don’t clean up, you won’t feel so bad about leaving the cheaper filler stuff behind!

A great time was had by all and “The Big Steer” is still one of the top five steak houses in my world. Special thanks to Lisa our waitress and the staff at “The Big Steer”.

As always please keep our First Responders, Law Enforcement, and all of our military in your thoughts and prayers and pray for a bit of intelligence for our government officials.

God Bless

PS I ask that you read my announcement on Page 40.

AUSTIN

SALES 712-310-3788 aust.sorensen@gmail.com

CODY CRUM ~ SALES 217-248-7282 codycrum@live.com

ANTHONY PEOPLES 660-651-6501 apeoples02@gmail.com

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