Wild Horse Roundup

By Curtis Schrimp

August 27, 2004

We had a pleasant surprise Thursday when we got a call from Sonny and Virginia Redding. They were in Greeley and were coming through here and wanted to take us and Duvall’s to dinner so we could visit. Daisy missed out as she was in Colorado Springs. Redding’s lived on the Steiner place near Bledsoe 50 years or so ago. They are good friends and keep in touch. They live in Manhattan, Kansas.

We had another nice surprise this morning (Saturday) when I got the mail there was a litter from Earl and Velma Smades. They had the store here in the late 40’s and left I think in the 50’s. The reason they wrote they got a phone call from Bob Ball, formerly of Hugo and now of Rapid City, South Dakota. He stopped quite some time ago just to meet us as he gets the Hugo paper and reads my column and wanted to meet the person who writes such stuff. I asked him if he knew the Smades and he said no but would call them. When he did he asked if they knew Curtis Schrimp and Velma said yes for 58 years. So she wrote and filled us in on the family.

Bill Skinner from across the street called and said some turkeys were roosting in the trees by his house. Marty and I went over later to see but, they had flown, too much noisy traffic I imagine.

Marty said that down at the ranch that the coyotes had been so loud they keep her awake.

Sunday evening 10:20 p.m. we just got home from Denver where we went to visit Steve’s family. Nathan and family were there from Old Mexico where they work in an orphanage. Natalie and family were there from Ohio where Gian is a music leader among other things at a Christian Church. There was a large crowd to visit with, but quite a few we didn’t know, but got acquainted. There was lots of food like barbecued bratwurst, wieners and hamburgers and a table full of goodies. It was a great day.

While coming home we watched this lightning storm and we thought we would run into rain, but no. We just seen on TV and they said Cheyenne Wells had a storm.