Tag: Cowboy Poet Orv Alveshere
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...
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...
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...
The UPHILL PART of SKIING
-By Orv Alveshere-QUARTER MILE OVER SNOWBANKS; WE’RE OVER THE HILLBehind the barn rising high above, was a 60-foot hill;Estimated to be thirty-five degrees, it...
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 from shock...
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 by hair...
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 using tractors,...
UN-RODE RAGE
By Orv Alveshere
trailered from an auctiona stunning muscular overo...
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 early functional...
