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...
Halloween Pranks and Cranks
-By Orv Alveshere-
TRICK OR TREAT HOLIDAY WITH HOBGOBLINS
Halloween has always been eagerly awaited by gals and guys.
Costumes and masks have been sought,...
THRESHING MEMORIES: WORKING AND SOCIALIZING
By Orv Alveshere
THRESHING CREWS: HUMANS AND HORSESSome threshers might have been to the point of sleepwalkAs teams of horses pulled hayracks...
QUIRKY, MOM’S PETULANT PET GOAT
-By Orv Alveshere-family's long train ride to coastal town Wilmington *Gramp's heart trouble Gram raised Mom and girlsGramps pulled Mom from ocean...
AIRBORNE WHEN WE HIT THE HAY
By Orv Alveshere
FALLING BEHIND IN HAY WORK
Gramps said decades ago, horse-drawn hay rakes gave drivers a horse-tail view.
A 1 person job. When...
UN-RODE RAGE
By Orv Alveshere
trailered from an auctiona stunning...
RURAL YOUTH MADE SUMMER PLANS
-By Orv Alveshere-ENAMORING EVENTS AND PERHAPS SOME TEARSOn the last day at small country schools there was a celebrationBuzzing with laughter. Most...
HISTORY LIVED AND SPOKEN HERE
-By Orv Alveshere-
COVERED WAGON TRACKS IN THE SANDS OF TIME, 1895
“Horses and covered wagon brought me here,” the octogenarian said.
Determined, he...
MARCH WHITE-OUT SNOWSTORM…SCHOOL’S DISMISSED
--by Orv Alveshere--ED LOST SIGHT OF HIS HOUSE, BUT NOT HIS GOALEd came to third grade in a one-room school…on his skis.He...
Making Wooden Christmas Toys
I’M CALLED A WHAT?
Some of the fondest memories and joys Are of constructing wooden Christmas toys. “Open Your Heart” programs, I remember, Sponsored year after...
The Ballad of the Billfold
by Orv Alveshere
CELEBRATING THEIR FIRST CHRISTMAS EVE
A couple was married in ’34;
The Depression made ranching very poor.
At Christmas they drew other family...
DROVE TRUCK HOME ALONE, ONCE
-By Orv Alveshere-
Five-Year-Old at Mid-America, at Mid-CenturyA rural Dakota farmer bought a small John Deere combine; Paid a bundle of cash for that...
IDEA OF SKUNKS NEXT DOOR STUNK IT’S NOT WHO, BUT WHAT YOU ‘NOSE’
IDEA OF SKUNKS NEXT DOOR STUNK;
IT'S NOT WHO, BUT WHAT YOU 'NOSE'
-By Orv Alveshere-
Faded red grainery ninety years old has tilted,
Harvest grain sold...
YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPER IN A HORSE RACE
YOUNG WHIPPERSNAPPER IN A HORSE RACE
By Orv Alveshere
FASTEST HORSE OUT OF A TURN
Ev'ry rodeo's racing course
Was won by G's fast sorrel horse.
Those dusty race...
LOST BETWEEN BARN AND HOUSE IN A BLIZZARD
LOST BETWEEN BARN AND HOUSE IN A BLIZZARD
-By Orv Alveshere-
SNOW CAN FIND YOU: CAN YOU FIND THE HOUSE?
Luckily he had just arrived home to...
CHRISTMAS TITLE
CHRISTMAS TITLE
By Orv Alveshere
-GREEN SCENE GIVERS-
I have Christmas mem’ries where parents gave each, one special gift.
Paying for land and livestock, it was a world...
BAKING DISORDER
BAKING DISORDER
-By Orv Avleshere -
My mother made buns that were the world's best;
We chose those homemade buns and left the rest.
Sometimes she's up and...
CONVOLUTED DISAPPEARING ACT OF THREE RIDERS
CONVOLUTED DISAPPEARING ACT OF THREE RIDERS
-By Orv Alveshere-
HOW’D 3 HORSES DISAPPEAR WITH 3 RIDERS?
In our early teens we literally lived for ‘half-past’ Sunday.
We would...
Muddy Creek Saloon was Robbed
Muddy Creek Saloon was Robbed By Mounted Thieves Dressed in Black
Five riders paced nervously ‘round the bend;
Now, what message would their black attire send?
The...
FIRST GRADE ANTICIPATION AND EXPECTATIONS
FIRST GRADE ANTICIPATION AND EXPECTATIONS
By Orv Alveshere
GREAT DEPRESSION AND DUSTY ‘30’S HEATS UP
On a very dry August day the scorching harvest sun bore down...
FIRST CATTLE DOG WAS MY BUDDY
FIRST CATTLE DOG WAS MY BUDDY
-BY ORV ALVESHERE-
YES, I DID KNOW “JACK”
Some guy argued with an acid tongue and gave a personal attack.
I was...
Will July 4 Fire Go Down to the Wire?
Will July 4 Fire Go Down to the Wire?
By Orv Alveshere
THREE-STORY BUILDING BUILT TO THEIR SPECS IN 1912
A homesteading couple had built a farm...
