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Prep: Home on the Range

When you stop and really think about it, the prairie is a happening place.  There's whole heck-of-alot more to it than waving wheat fields and a sky spreading out as far as your peepers can see. Oh yeah, it's really a jungle out there, I'm telling you!

Tomorrow we're going to look at a series of guides I made for an awesome non-fiction picture book that takes a close, close look at the prairie's fab flora and fauna, as well as studying a year's worth of weather patterns. These guides were such fun to make because I learned so ding-danged much while doing so!

So, to put you in the mood for tomorrow's mellow prairie stroll, I asked my old buddy Marty Robbins to strum a little tune for us. You know this song. Come on...join in. And a-one and a-two...

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play....Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the sky is not cloudy all day. Home, home on the range...