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Greetings 405 listener!
The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM. Normally each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we'll get it posted for you within a few hours, normally.
Your neighbor and website maintainer,
D.J. Rasmussen
I wanna again welcome you to the four zero five Coffee Break Guides. Get you a cup of coffee, glass ice. It gets cooler today. Feels good. Bottled water.
OK Solberg:Let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, $5.39 a bushel. 550 pounds steer calf, $4.07 a pound. On the top end, butcher hog in Iowa, 56ยข a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings will fetch you, what is it? Oh, dollar 84 a pound.
OK Solberg:But guys, there's more, much more. If I knew the way, I'd go back home, but the countryside has changed so much, I'd surely end up lost. Half remembering names and faces so far in the past, on the other side of bridges that were burned once, they were crossed. Tell me where. Where does a fool go when there's no one left to listen to a story without meaning that nobody wants to hear?
OK Solberg:Tell me where. Where does a fool go when he knows there's something missing? Tell me where? Where do I go from here? To get back home where my childhood dreams and wishes still outnumber my regrets?
OK Solberg:Get back to a place where I can figure on the odds, have a fighting chance to lose the blues, and win my share of bets. Tell me, where? Where does a fool go when there's no one left to listen to a story without meaning that nobody wants to hear? Is that great or what? Sadly great.
OK Solberg:Written by Paul Williams. It's the theme song for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Now I find it relevant for two reasons. Number one, I'm telling you stories that nobody wants to hear, and number two, it talks about the value of home. Guys, if you lived here, you'd be home now.
OK Solberg:We do live here, and Malta or Phillips County is home. In yesterday's episode, I shared from a 1958 Phillips County newspaper, and the front page article had a heading that read, early day Harb settler buried at Polson. Friends in the Harb community received word last week of the death of John Erickson who homesteaded in that area in 1915, end of quote. To us in Phillips County, that doesn't seem odd or unusual, but to the world it might. Why you ask?
OK Solberg:Think about it. He wasn't family, he wasn't a relative, he wasn't a brother, an uncle, or even a nephew. So why does anyone even give a tinker's damn? Because in Phillips County, our neighbors are our family. We take care of each other.
OK Solberg:We mourn when trouble befalls us. We rejoice when you experience a new child or a child's graduation from high school. We live in Mayberry, and I'm glad I recognize it. Now I'm gonna give you an exercise to prove my point. You ready?
OK Solberg:Listen. Abrahamson, Barnard, Barthelmess, Bishop, Campbell, Crowder, Demarais, Doucette, Ereaux, Freitag, Green, Hammond, Henderson, Henry, Hould, Jacobsen, Johannesen, Kienenberger, La Brie, Lundstrom, Lumsden, Meisdalen, Mikkelson, Mortensen. Are you still with me? Nevrivy, Niebur, Orahood, Oxarart, Pankratz, Peigneux, Pekovitch. See what I mean?
OK Solberg:If you grew up in Phillips County, you can connect with each and every name I mentioned. They are our neighbors, so they is family. Sorry if I left you out, I wanted some of the names that are hard for an out of town basketball announcer to pronounce, but you and I recognize them in a heartbeat. I didn't even get to the s's. And no, I wasn't gonna name Solberg.
OK Solberg:I wanted to say Schmoeckel, Sjostrom, Soennichsen, Sorenson, Simanton, Simonson, Simonsen. What? Did I hear you say Simonson? Yes. But it was after Simanton and before Simonsen.
OK Solberg:Well, was it Doug or Danny? It's neither. There's a Doug Simanton and a Danny Simonson, but I was talking about Tony Simonsen over there at the River Bend. Oh oh, now I got you. Anyway, this episode is dedicated to Phillips County.
OK Solberg:If you lived here, you'd be home now. Well, we are home. Then the Lord said to Jacob, return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives, and I will be with you. Genesis 31-3. Jacob was excited to return home, and we are home.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.