Dirt and I first met Dale Tibbits twenty-three years ago, July, 1985, when we answered an ad for farmland for rent.Twenty-three years is a long time.Many stories, many influential moments. Understandings, tender times, frustrations, misunderstandings, are bound together, so tightly wound around each another that they cannot be separated, one from the other, because it is love that binds them here.Twenty-three years is also incredibly short, too short.