View from the North 40: When life give you hazards ...

So I lived beyond the summer cold, with some lingering signs, but life just keeps throwing it at me like I’m a fan, and I’m really thinking I should have something like worker’s compensation, but I wouldn’t have to work for it, just live for it — maybe survivor’s compensation.

“Oh,” I would say. “I never would’ve lived through it without my survivor’s compensation that paid for the help I needed after, y’know surviving.”

As I have battled the last hints of cough and sniffle from my stupid summer cold, I’ve been giving my big oaf, young horse penicillin shots. S...