Betty Olson
We got a little sprinkle of rain here last Monday morning when Reub was headed out to spray weeds at the Horse Creek pasture, but he ran into a lot more rain with muddy roads as he drove north so he turned around and came home before taking a chance of getting stuck.
There are more deaths to report: Alvin Heggen, 69, formerly from Camp Crook, passed away at home in Huber Heights, Ohio, on August 5. His funeral service was at the Way of the Cross Church in Huber Heights on August 20. He was laid to rest in the Dayton National Cemetery with military honors.
Loren Weishaar, age 63 of Belle Fourche and formerly from Sorum, died Saturday, August 16, at the Monument Health Rapid City Hospital. No services will be held. Arrangements are with Leverington Funeral Home of the Northern Hills in Belle Fourche.
Philip Resner, age 86, of Hettinger, passed away on Tuesday, August 19 at the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger. Per his wishes, no formal services will be held at this time.
These families have our sympathy.
It was pretty hot on Tuesday when Reub went up to spray weeds at the Horse Creek pasture and these guys took Copper and Knox with them to work cows up there with a bunch of neighbors that came to help. In this ranch community, we can always count on neighbors helping neighbors. The guys came home before Reub, who didn’t get home until 3:00 for lunch.
It was 100 degrees on Wednesday, which was the first day of school in Buffalo. Amanda took Copper, Knox and River Lu to school that morning and it was River’s first day of kindergarten. After they got home that afternoon, River told me that school was really fun and she wants to go again! Reub and I took his side-by-side up to John Brown in Reeder to get it fixed that morning and then went over to Hettinger to have lunch at the American Legion. Randy Holden was eating there and we had a good visit about things south of Prairie City a long time ago. After eating lunch we drove out to Missy’s Aunt Sylvia Engle’s house south of town to get a bunch of really nice sheets that she was donating to the quilters at Slim Buttes Lutheran Church to use on the back of the quilts they make.
We had to get a bunch of stuff from White Drug and Reub was able to get his squeeze from his cousin Roxie Finck before we left the store. We had a good visit with Bill and Colleen Galbreth at Cenex when we stopped to gas up on the way home. Colleen has a video of one of the Harding County History tours they went on with us and she is going to make a copy of it for me. I can’t wait to get that!
We stopped in Reeder on the way home to get some weed spray from Southwest Grain and have coffee and a good visit with the Prairie Pioneers. Diane Sanford gave me a good recipe to get rid of flies while we were at coffee and it really works so I’ll share it with you. Mix 2 cups of sugar, 2 cups of water, 1 cup of apple cider vinegar and 10 drops of Dawn dish soap together and pour into an old 8×10 inch cake pan and set it outside. I made it, set it out on our deck and I’ve never seen so many dead flies! Wednesday was a fun day for us old folks.
I dumped a quarter inch of rain out of the rain gauge Thursday morning. Copper and Knox went back to school on Thursday but River stayed home because the other half of the kindergartners went to school that day but she was able to go back on Friday. Reub went back up to spray weeds at the Horse Creek pasture that morning and made it home for lunch by 2:30. The guys spent the afternoon getting the two semis and flatbeds fixed up and ready to haul in all the bales into the hay corrals.
Reub was back up spraying weeds again on Friday and got home for lunch about a quarter to 3:00. All three of the kids went to school that day and they stayed in town that evening for the football game against Gettysburg. Everybody on the ranch went to Buffalo for the football game that evening except us old folks and Buffalo won the football game.
Reub was back spraying weeds again on Saturday both here and at the Horse Creek pasture but he doesn’t think he’ll get all the weeds killed before it freezes. Our home phone quit and I had Taz come up to see what was wrong with it. He found the problem so I have to call Consolidated to come down and fix it for us, so if you’ve tried to call us and we didn’t answer that is the reason.
Pastor Henry and Linda Mohagen were gone on Sunday so Casey led the service and Bill Holt gave a wonderful sermon and then Bev Heier and Amanda Schuchard fed us a delicious lunch with coffee and fellowship after church.
With school and sports starting, I’ll leave you with this: Junior high sports test
A junior high boy was taking a physical before playing sports at his school. He was given an eye exam like you get from the eye doctor and they put the same sign up on the wall that the eye doctor has you read. They asked the boy to read to them the lowest line he could see. Silence. They asked him again to read the lowest line to them and he said he couldn’t because he’d never seen that word before!
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