Do you remember the beginning?

Politicians love to brag about their “humble beginnings”, but few of them have lived through anything like what our parents experienced.

One of my favorite stories about the humble beginnings is a true story of a family’s ranch.

The story goes like this… Floyd started out as a West River sheep man. When he was courting his future wife, she came to visit him one day and asked for a drink of water.

“There’s a water hole down there. That’s where I get my drinking water,” he told her.

When she returned from fetching the water, the bucket was empty. “There is a dead sheep near that water hole. It’s not safe to drink that water,” she warned him.

“You just went to the wrong water hole,” he said as he took the bucket and went for water.

Many years later, he finally admitted to her that there was really only one water hole, but neither of them got sick from drinking out it....