By Alan B. Combs

There are certain expectable disappointments in life. My wife deems it necessary that I mow the lawn this and nearly every weekend. She also deems it necessary that I walk the dogs every day. My doctor deems it necessary that I lose (mumble, mumble, unspecified) pounds.

If I took all those suggestions and threw them out into the back yard, it would become a field of deems.

Which reminds me — the thing that Kevin Costner said about the baseball field he was building is exactly the same thing that the architect of the Chicken Ranch said. They both said,

“Build it — and they will…”