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We sat around a fire built with dry cow chips and told stories while shaking out grain from ears of corn.

After all, he’d never had any coaching growing up, but he organized games for the 12 siblings on the family farm, where they used cow chips for bases.

Valley-area bovines chow down on peelings and cooked chips that aren’t quite up to snuff — yes, they call them cow chips.

The fuel with which to prepare this food was, for most of them, hay, or in summer cow chips, and later on, when they began to raise corn, corn cobs.

The fuel had given out, as we had feared—cow chips and all.