Wild Horse Roundup

By Curtis Schrimp

March 12, 2004

I guess I should mention the nice thing that happened around here this week. We had two rains that gave us a little over 3/10 inches. That’s not much, but we’ll take any given amount.

Lee Ann just called and she was telling us about a ski trip Jessi and Jenni’s class, along with their teacher, took. They went to a cabin that took over two hours to ski there. John being the good daddy had skied up there earlier and built a fire and put on water for hot chocolate. It sounded like work to me with back packs of bedrolls and food. John and two friends went skiing and one fell and started a little snow slide, but no harm done.

Our Kit Carson boys won their game over Vilas so on to State. We will all be rooting for them. Our reception wasn’t very good, but I think Cheyenne Wells also won, so we will be rooting for them also.

My favorite sport will be starting soon, baseball.

Adolph and Margaret Johnson are celebrating their 67^th anniversary the 9^th, I believe. They have us by almost two years, but I have Adolph by nine months in age.

Billie Lafferty just brought in my last weeks news that blew away. It was caught in their trees. I put it in the edge of the door for the mailman to get and take to Cheyenne Wells, but we had a bit of a wind. I should have laid it on the sidewalk under a brick.

Friday was Kirsti’s day with the orthodontist in Denver and her tooth is coming down so good he changed the way it was fastened. Marty and her spent the night at Steve’s and on Saturday went to the mall and ate exotic food and a candy store where you go along picking the candy you want out of containers sitting there to help yourselves.

On Monday Lee and I went to Kit Carson for her blood pressure check and west of Sorrento a field was blowing so you had to turn on your lights. It seemed like the ‘30’s for about a mile. The good old days?

I read a few days ago about when "The Star Spangled Banner" was adopted as our national anthem. The school kids got to vote on that and I remember I voted for "America the Beautiful"

I read in the old news in last weeks paper about the death of Joe Reustle and a jury decided he had been feloniously shot by an unknown person. We have an old newspaper that says, if I’m right, the D.A. whose name was Deathrage decided later on it was suicide. He has a real nice monument in our cemetery with the inscription of him being in WWI.

I see two of Bill Skinner’s brothers are down from Denver. Bill’s mother has been in Denver for quite some time so I’m sure he welcomes the company.