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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the time we can spend together.
I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, Weekends coming. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, or bottled water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.57 a bushel, 550lb steer calf, I'll give you a range, $5.10 a pound all the way up to $5.60 a pound, I kid you not, depending on their quality. And a 100lb fat lamb in Billings $3.05 a pound. But, guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. I have a question. Do you find yourself with a craving for a cardboard box? Huh? Now I'm not talking about you going about the chores of life and you find yourself craving a cardboard box. No. That might border into abnormal psychological behavior.
OK Solberg:No. I'm talking about receiving a cardboard box in the mail, then opening it, removing its contents, and then the question comes to mind, what do I do with the box? Should I throw it away? No. I can't throw it away. Look at it. It's it's it's perfect.
OK Solberg:Do you ever find yourself with a craving for a cardboard box? I'm telling you, I can throw stuff away quite easily. Now Thea may not agree with that because I do save a lot of things, I know. But the things I save typically remind me of a particular person. See, I like people, and I like to be reminded of them.
OK Solberg:Ask me about my two case knives on the serving platter in my office sometime. I'll tell you who they remind me of, and I like to think about my friends and be reminded of them often. But back to the point of throwing things away. Hey. When I get in a cleaning mood, dumpster look out because here I come.
OK Solberg:I can easily throw things away when the mood hits. But the other day, as I opened my mail and received a package wrapped inside a cardboard box, I I wavered. Look at that thing. Perfect, neat, orderly. And what if I need to mail something in the future and I need a box?
OK Solberg:This box would be perfect. I need to save it. So, again, do you ever find yourself with a craving for a cardboard box? I do it all the time. I might be able to use this for something in the future.
OK Solberg:I better save it. But then comes a question. When is enough enough? When you go out into the garage and there are 36 empty cardboard boxes, hey. What's the deal here?
OK Solberg:I know. I know. But it might come in handy someday. A well made cardboard box is kinda like an old dog. Even though you know you should put it out of its misery, you pause and say, but not today.
OK Solberg:I'm sure I told you. But my 1st money making venture beyond the farm out there in Harb happened right here in Malta, Montana. After we ate lunch at the lunchroom in the elementary school, Robert Clausen and me would run down to Buttery's and look in the bin behind the store and find boxes they were throwing away.
OK Solberg:We'd gather up the good ones and hightail it to Leonard Leader's Meat Shop in the basement of McCoy's Music, now Arts Furniture. Leonard, you know, he had a jar of coins on his upper shelf, and he'd look over the boxes, look over the boxes, and pay us in accordance to their size and condition.
OK Solberg:We'd often leave his shop with 35 to 55ยข apiece, And off we'd run the Buttery's again and spend our hard earned cash. Candy bars had increased in price to a dime by that time, but nonetheless, it bought us some candy, and kids love candy.
OK Solberg:But it all started with a cardboard box and the great idea Robert Claussen told me about, and we were making money and helping out Leonard and Linda. So I still have a hard time throwing a good cardboard box away. I don't know. It's in my blood, I guess. But if you need one, stop by our house.
OK Solberg:I'm always ready to help a needy cause. Now since this topic is so dear to my heart, I'll give you 2 bible verses for the price of one.
OK Solberg:In the gospel of John, after Jesus fed the 5,000 people, it says in 6:12 Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost. Yeah. Waste not want not. Don't throw that box away. Again, that was John 6:12 Then in Proverbs 21:9 it says, the plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. Proverbs 21:9
OK Solberg:So will you come to poverty by throwing away that cardboard box? Maybe not, but you might need it someday.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.