For a long time, the fiercest predator worrying farm livestock east of the Missouri River was a coyote or maybe a hunter who couldn't tell a white-faced cow from a whitetail deer.
We heard coyotes this weekend when we were back home visiting my parents. And a really loud owl.
No cougars, though.
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It's gonna be a hootenanny.
Or maybe a jamboree.
Or possibly even a shindig or lollapalooza.
Perhaps it'll be a hootshinpaloozaree. I don't know.