{"id":15051,"date":"2014-06-01T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2021-11-06T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:11:08","slug":"remnants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/remnants\/","title":{"rendered":"Remnants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What does one call it when a bunch of fabric gets cut-up when making an item of clothing, and then there are a bunch of leftovers? What are those residual scraps? Remnants? That’s what I was left to work with today, a bunch of little snippets that didn’t quite make it into previous articles. They’ve been hording valuable real estate on my list of potential topics for quite awhile, cluttering up the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I have enough of them to cobble together into a single article and dispense with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shooting for H’s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"4-H<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I grew up in farm country. I’m quite familiar with 4-H<\/a>. The 4-H of my childhood focused on making better farmers through agricultural fairs, educational efforts, overnight camps, and the like. I vaguely remember my sister grooming a horse or something like that for some “Old School” 4-H contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The present-day 4-H, from what I gleaned from their website, shifted rather more broadly into the suburbs, urban areas and even internationally. The four H’s referenced head, heart, hands, and health. What I didn’t know until just now was that 4-H was part of the US Department of Agriculture, specifically<\/a> through its National Institute of Food and Agriculture. I guess I never thought about it in that amount of detail before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How should I interpret this odd lake in Carthage, Texas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n