My first knowledge of mechanized hay baling happened at age five on our little sharecropper farm in Lincoln County, Kentucky. The baler remained stationary; several teams of horses with hay wagons attached brought stacks of loose hay to this very loud monster.

By STATE SENATOR GRANT GREEN. The Senate has passed the halfway point in this legislative session. In addition to advancing hundreds of bills to the House, my Senate colleagues and I recently voted on a budget resolution that details our chamber’s conservative spending priorities for the upcoming year.

In our state, we live by the line, “If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, wait a minute and it’ll change.” It’s an acknowledgment of the state’s unpredictable weather patterns, which can be both a blessing and a curse. However, with the rapid onset of severe weather events, this unpredictability can turn dangerous if we’re not prepared.

The computer has become a main source of socialization and entertainment these days, especially tech-savvy users, with good reason. Just about anything anyone needs or wants can be found by Googling it on the Internet.

I am not a huge country music fan, but as an Oklahoma girl, who grew up in the 1980-90’s, it was hard not to be a Garth Brooks fan. Some of his songs are pretty wild; have you actually listened and processed the words to “That Summer?” If you haven’t, do yourself an favor and don’t.

OK, I can almost hear some quick-witted reader say, “In a bed!” My question is a bit more complicated. In fact, the answer impacts our taxes, which hits our pocketbooks.

The weather continued to cause problems with good viewing nights during March. The better/ clearer nights seem to occur when the Moon is prominent which, as we all know, reduces our ability to be able to see the dimmer objects such as Nebulae and Galaxies. April is, historically, more likely to have adverse weather as moisture starts moving up from the gulf and collides with the weather systems coming out of the northwest. We are hoping that there will be a break that will allow us to be able to witness the events that will be taking place this month. Primarily, the Total Solar Eclipse that will track across S.E. Oklahoma on April 8th, and the Lyrid Meteor Shower that will peak overnight on the 22nd into the 23rd.