Tag: Orv’s Cowboy Poetry
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...
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...
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...
Filling a Thirsty Steam Engine
-By Orv Alveshere-
The Threshing Crew's Steam EngineAt what age can a young lad join the threshing crew?Depended upon the age and how fast one...
SHOCKING SHOCKING GRAIN BUNDLE TALE
SETTING GRAIN BUNDLES INTO SHOCKS-By Orv Alveshere-
Stand Up Comics Stand Up the Bundles
Ev'ry year there was a pressing 'people-power' need.
At harvest and shocking time the...
Operating a Harvest Grain Binder
Memories of harvesting grain with a horse drawn implement.
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...
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...
YOUNG COWBOY’S SPECIAL CHRISTMAS GIFT
-by Orv Alveshere-JINGLE BELLS AND WINTER RECREATION INVIGORATIONYouthful ambitions and plans caused a hurrying of most ranch choresTo allow time to ride ponies or...
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 would return....
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 staked a...
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 bundled in...
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 year in...
