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MOVE YOUR DONKEY, COWBOY!
by Orv Alveshere
DONKEY BASKETBALL…INDOORSWatching DONKEY basketball is enjoyable. I’ve always longed to rideKnowing an immovable object like a donkey could injure one’s pride.Having...
SHETLAND PONY “FANNY” WAS A HORSE’S PATOOT
-By Orv Alveshere -FANNY WAS A Six-TRICK PONY WHO JUST SAID "NEIGH"Many Cowboys, Cowgirls, Cowbabies & bow-legged riders worldwideLearned to walk, while they learned...
Knee-High to a Dapple Gray Team
TOO SMALL TO PICK EGGS?Some hens laid their eggs in the horse manger;But to gather the eggs, would pose a danger.I was knee-high to...
ECCENTRIC EQUINE EXPELLED
HORSING AROUND IN SCHOOLA lady bought a very gorgeous horseAnd she paid for a ‘finishing school’ courseThen she trailered him many miles awayWhere his...
GETTING STUCK IN THE HOUSE
–By Orv Alveshere–
A MIND AS SHARP AS A TANK
We expect questions and quizzing and quips from those with sharp minds,
From detectives, mystery sleuths or...
Tea Time Has a Modern Name (in Today’s Terminology)
-By Orv Alveshere -
At the top of the stairs was a Tea Can.
It wasn’t green, aqua, taupe or tan.
A special color, that one...
A CAROLING WE WILL GO
-by Orv Alveshere-
GIDDYUP JINGLE HORSEAsk country folks, they have gone caroling since way back when.I like to think back in years to when I...
Pitching Grain Bundles onto a Bundle Wagon
-By Orv Alveshere-
WILD HORSES COULD KEEP THEM AWAYThey needed another harvest bundle pitcherAlthough, they'd be very tired...they would feel richer. That was a delib'rate...
RURALLY EMBARRASSING
-By Orv Alveshere-
OATBURNERS REPLACED BY SMALL GAS TRACTORSHe parked his horse-drawn wooden grain drill by his rusty antique machines.His draft teams enjoyed the pasture....
Three Plows, Two Plowboys and a Phantom
-By Orv Alveshere-
ILLUSION, CONFUSION, COLLUSION OR SOLUTION? A story's going 'round, about guys who've been 'round; A grain stubble field, many times, plowing the...
Haul Some Heat into the Town Hall
-By Orv Alveshere-
LITERALLY A COLD SHOOTING BASKETBALL NIGHT The grade school basketball team got in two cars and cruised down the road. That energetic...
Easter Sunrise Service at Hollywood Bowl
Easter Sunrise Service at Hollywood Bowl
By Orv Alveshere
OUTDOOR WORSHIP IMPRESSIVE FOR THOUSANDS
Several interesting tickets came to my desk at work,
Where my soldier duty was the...
GET-UP-‘N-GO SKIERS WERE SO INCLINED
-by Orv Alveshere-
AWAITING HIGH SPIRITED DOWNHILL SKI PARTY GOERSThe torrid, dusty ‘30’s made hay and grain growing very poor.The spirits of country folk...
Tribute to World War II Veterans
-By Orv Alveshere-
The Hired Man Wore Army Clothes The Olive-Green Undershirt“The war, the danger and fighting was getting old,”Were some of the Army stories our...
Grandma’s Pet Goat, Mr. Quirky!
PERTURBED BY A PET/NO HUMILITY & NO TRANQUILITY
I asked Mother, of all the farm animals she'd met
Could she describe one as her favorite pet?
She told of her...
Operating a Harvest Grain Binder
Memories of harvesting grain with a horse drawn implement.
SIGHTLESS MAN TUNED OUR PIANO
-By Orv Alveshere-INTENTLY WATCHING A TALENTED PROFESSIONALWe’d unhitched horses. A car drove into our yard at noon.The driver asked us “If our piano was...
CATTLE DRIVE, HORSEBACK, 1928
-by Orv Alveshere-
WATCHING REAL LIFE, NOT MOVIESDad trained, drove and rode horses, and like movie stars, rode tall in the saddle.He told of long...
Pier Country
-By Orv Alveshere-
FASTER HORSES AT THE AKN BREAK ACRESWhy were the country kids always racing their horsesIn ditches or over cow-trail or Badger-hole...
PLOWING WITH HORSES: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
-By Orv Alveshere-
HARNESSED UP FOR OLD TIMES SAKEA Country Gentleman looked longingly at his newly purchased horse-drawn plow.He had practiced driving his team. He...
I Met the Boogie Woogie Man
-By Orv Alveshere-
A welcome school visitor on FridaysOnce there was a special piano stool,Years ago at our little country school.With various pretenders to the...
SOME HORSE DAYS SURPASS OTHERS
-By Orv Alveshere-A Beautiful Horse and Children's DayA bustling 1800’s cowtown had been lovingly restored.Now a summer highlight, they won 2007 Visitor’s Choice Award.Nestled...
