{"id":695,"date":"2011-02-14T00:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T00:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolene-test.com.bishopcompsol.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2011-02-14T00:24:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T00:24:43","slug":"tough-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/tough-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1051.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-696\" title=\"shapeimage_1-10\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1051-300x171.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1051-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1051-500x285.png 500w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/shapeimage_1-1051.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, Iowans enjoyed a break in the weather. It came just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day, so women can wear dresses and strappy, spiky shoes instead of fuzzy sweaters, wool pants, and winter boots. KInda nice to set aside winter toughness for a few days, in anticipation of spring\u2019s kindness.<\/p>\n<p>I took advantage of the sunshine and warmer temperatures hovering around freezing and walked outside on Saturday. This is my version of spring training, my opportunity to toughen up before swimsuit season arrives. Not that I\u2019m big into swim suits (or strappy, spiky shoes for that matter), but that\u2019s beside the point.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that my pride at being one tough women, who braved February weather to walk outside, was properly dashed after reading a couple tidbits in the Harding County, South Dakota weekly newspaper, the Nation\u2019s Center News. You may think it\u2019s pretty pathetic for someone to still take the paper, 25 years after they moved away. But trust me, articles about the tough women who live in the remote, northwest corner of South Dakota keep me renewing my subscription year after year.<\/p>\n<p>In those parts, winter lasts a long time, and this one\u2019s been pretty snowy, too. Which sets the scene for the first article which reported that Ronda Cordell \u201cwas a little worried about the ice and snow on her roof, so she chopped the six inches of ice from her eaves, but it was so icy that there was not much she could do about the snow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second story was about Tawni Cordell. (I believe her husband is Ronda\u2019s grand-nephew.) She and her husband went mountain lion hunting a few weeks ago. \u201cWhen the dogs treed the cat along the face of a cliff, Tawni and Ryan climbed up to have an open shot and brought him down&#8230;He weighed 175 pounds.\u201d The reporter concludes with these words. \u201cThese women are tough around here, because Tawni is expecting a baby, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, those two stories put me in my place. Ronda\u2019s the kind of woman who has no qualms about chopping ice from the eaves of her house on a ranch in the boondocks, even though she lives alone. Tawni\u2019s the kind of woman who tracks and kills mountain lions while preparing to give birth. (I\u2019m exaggerating a bit. She\u2019s due in June.) I\u2019m the kind of woman who wears yak tracks on a walk through town and takes her cell phone along just in case, and who refuses to wear spiky, strappy shoes on Valentine\u2019s Day because she\u2019s afraid of heights.<\/p>\n<p>Stories like these keep me subscribing to <em>The Nation\u2019s Center News<\/em> year after year. They remind me of the tough women who live in and around Harding County &#8211;<br \/>\nOf their kindness.<br \/>\nOf their determination.<br \/>\nOf their strength.<br \/>\nOf their resourcefulness.<br \/>\nThey remind me that someday,<br \/>\nI want to be like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend, Iowans enjoyed a break in the weather. It came just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day, so women can wear dresses and strappy, spiky shoes instead of fuzzy sweaters, wool pants, and winter boots. KInda nice to set aside winter toughness for a few days, in anticipation of spring\u2019s kindness. 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