b"table of contentsMay 2020 from the PublisherTHE BEST, IN YOU!5Ask the Vet: Poisoning 101 How are YOU doing? Last month for many, was an experience we will never forget. As you look 8 The Old Storyteller: I Always back, how did you handle it? What emotions did you go through? Have you changed your mind Wanted to Be A Cowboy about doing things differently than you had in the past? Do you look at people differently? Do 11From the Back of the Box you feel as powerful and strong as you did back 12The Bottom Line 11 in January? How do you look at your family today? How do you look at your job now? Are 16 15 Running the Race: No Mas Corona you going to create a stockpile of certain items at your home? Has this devastated your mind? Are you moving forward and thinking, this was just a little hitch in your giddy-up, but its all better now?16Lee Anderson: Did You Know, In the Old West. Here are some of the things I observed during April and let me 20Bill Roberts: The Pioneers of Walnut preface this withthese are MY opinions, you have your own. For the month of April I drove to work every day, the freeways had Grove, Part 1 about half the normal amount of traffic, and crazy people were still driving 80 to 90 mph on the freeway.DPS was still pulling people 2296.3 Real Country Concert Page over, accidents were still happening. People moved away from you to give you that social distancing space. Health care workers and first responders went to work daily and did what they were trained 23Crossword / Sudoku / Cowboy Comics for. Restaurants tried to stay open and do takeout so they were at 25Justin Legler: Easter, Look Uut for FOG, 25 work doing what they were trained for. Construction and road 28 maintenance continued and the crews all went to work doing what they were trained for. Federal, state, and county workers continued and Have FAITH on their jobs and did what they were trained for. Many people were required to work from home so they did what they were trained for 25AZ 4-H Quarantine Activitiesfrom their homes. Some found that they were without a job but they did what they were trained for by their upbringing and lifestyle. 26A Cowboy Rests in Heaven: Gary Lynn Clemmons So a lot of people did what they were trained for, and that is what gets us through tough times. YOU ALL DESERVE A STANDING 28AZ Road Trip: Patagonia OVATION, THANK YOU!31Charity of the Month: Triple R Horse Rescue That being said I think there was a group of egotistical, self-serving, limelight 34 Buddy Uldrikson: Attention wanna-bes that deserve a big thumbs 37 News from Copper State Peruvian Paso Club 31 down. Ive been in radio since 1972 and right now I am so disgusted with the talking heads on TV and radio. I use 37DIY: Homemade Mother's Day Gifts to be a news junkie, but not any longer. Integrity, professionalism, journalism, and news stories have been replaced with 38Jim Olson's Collector's Corner: Absentee Max Bids political agenda opinions from the news directors and corporate CEOs. It appears they are directing what they want people to know.What You Dont Know Could Cost You President Ronald Regan once said Government is not the solution, government is the problem and that is what I believe about all 40The Arizona Duuude: Mary Brown and the so-called news stations today. News is not being reported, the news is being decimated by political opinion, which is a problem. Power National Festival of the West, Part 2 is something that can be used for good or bad. It seems the more power someone thinks they have, the more they become infatuated 42 A View of the Zoo with their own ideas and opinions and believe that everyone else should have the same. Were not at a time when we need to point 43Arena Directory fingers, try to assign blame, or look for a fall person. Maybe were at a time when we should unite together, see how much better we 44Alan Rockman: Forty Miles A can make the world we live in and give those folks doing what they were trained for a little more respect and responsibility. No one Day on Beans and Hay, Part 2 48 person has ever had the entire world at peace, no one person has 40 48 A Bite of Country: Mom's Real Country Recipes ever ended hunger, no one person has ever created a 100% working force, no one person has ever made this earth as pristine as it was at the beginning of time, no one person has created a vaccine to cure and keep us alive forever,AND NO ONE PERSON, EVER 50Arizona Real Country Equine Supply Source WILL. That being said no one person has that much power in the end. YOU are the real power that makes things happen and how you 52 Taking Care of Business: Special enrich the lives around you depends on you. One positive message that I believe, I want to leave you with. Whatever you do, work atAdvertiser Section it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men. Colossians 3:2354 Advertiser Index55Classified Ads42 57Just the Facts: Alan Jackson 57 Mike Barna, Publisher ArizonaRealCountryMagazine@gmail.com4 May 2020"