It's getting very expensive to pull 'em around. . . . What cost you $200 to come up here in July cost you $400 to come up here in September.

Things have definitely been going well so far.

For young people, life is very visual. There are few things as visual as the twin towers falling.

The losing side of that war was the IRA. A lot of those people (men and women), if they weren't outright forced out of Ireland, were certainly made to feel unwelcome. So you had a huge migration of the so-called 'Republican Irish,' and my family was part of that.

She's always fun to work with. ... it wasn't below her to swing by the livestock office and ask if we needed anything.

We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.

We have six freshmen on the team and they are really talented, and I knew we were going to be good, but you never know how we will do until we get out there. But potentially, the sky is the limit for this team.

It is a lot more comfortable because the girls know the system, they trust it and they perform it beautifully. It really is a family atmosphere; the girls are just really close.

It's an issue of perspective.

We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.