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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.
New episodes appear here usually within a few hours after that KMMR air time and been striving to post new releases here by 4:30PM.
I want to gain welcome you to the 04:05 Coffee Break. Guys, get your cup of coffee, glass of iced tea, bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:I don't have any spring wheat prices. You'll have to call yourself. But I can tell you what, 46 head of black steers weighing 541lbs per head brought at PAYS in Billings.
OK Solberg:541lbs and they brought $4.45 a pound. And a 100lb fat lamb in Billings tapered off $2.75 to $2.85 a pound. But guys, there's more much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. It's Monday and it's Columbus Day. It's Monday, it's Columbus Day, and it's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday. Oh, hey. Wait a minute. It's Monday. It's Columbus Day.
OK Solberg:It's Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, and it's the 1st anniversary of Jay and Joe's Motor Monday, the day we look at horsepower one Monday at a time.
OK Solberg:Yes, sir. The 1st anniversary. Can you believe that? One whole year that we've been looking at horsepower one Monday at a time.
OK Solberg:Well, today I have a special for you, and it's the time when horsepower was available but never got used. But 1st, I need to do a few housecleaning chores.
OK Solberg:I have to bring you up to speed on what's happening in baseball. You have to understand that the World Series starts on the 23rd. That's a week from this Friday. Yes. And we're down to only 4 teams left.
OK Solberg:We have the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League, and it's a Tampa Bay Rays and the Cleveland Indians in the American League.
OK Solberg:Oh, oh, wait. The Indians changed their name, didn't they? No. Now what is it? Cleveland... Well, let's see. In football, the red skids went to become the Commanders.
OK Solberg:And then Cleveland, the Indians went to... Oh oh, yeah. The Cleveland Gideons. So pay attention today.
OK Solberg:We have the Dodgers up against the Brewers happening right now actually. And later on, the Rays take on the Gideons. Baseball, you gotta love it.
OK Solberg:Okay. Now for Motor Monday, a special for you and it's the time when horsepower was available but never got used.
OK Solberg:Guys, when I got up this morning, I knew I'd was... What I was gonna tell you about. But as I walked out the door of my house to come over and type this up, it was snowing like crazy.
OK Solberg:That just makes today's episode even better. Today today, we will look back exactly 45 years ago today. Yes, sir.
OK Solberg:It was 10/12/1981 and Theo and I were just married for the 1st year, and her father Jack was taking us elk hunting with pack horses. There's the horsepower.
OK Solberg:Yes, sir Bob. Two pack horses and we headed down to near Gardner, Montana. And I have to tell you only the highlights or my time will run out. It's October 1981.
OK Solberg:We get to camp with the horse trailer and 2 pack horses and pack saddles and, well, the whole 9 yards. We get them 2 horses geared up and it's raining and it's chilly and well it's about dark and we start up the mountain.
OK Solberg:I'm leading one horse, Jack is leading the other horse, and now the rain is turning to snow. And as we were on the trail heading up that mountain, we met some hikers coming down the trail.
OK Solberg:And I can't remember the entire conversation, but I do remember one comment from one of the hikers. She smiled and said, I'm sure glad it's you and not us going up to high country because it's miserable up there.
OK Solberg:Well, that got Jack to thinking and see Jack, he was the boss and he says, maybe we shouldn't set up camp in the high country. Maybe we should go back to the trailhead where the pickup and trailer park and that sounded good to me and Thea.
OK Solberg:And we spent the night in sleeping bags in the back of that horse trailer with the canvas top. Now, guys, I found a dry corner and I was curled up in the fetal position, snug as a bug in a rug.
OK Solberg:And I remember two times during the night that I hear my father-in-law calling out in words that were not uttered in perfect harmony.
OK Solberg:This is like a Chinese water torture. And Jack, he's trying to stop the leaks dripping down on him in his sleeping bag there in the horse trailer. Well, we made the night. The horses spent the night under the trees in the rain and snow.
OK Solberg:And we get up in the morning and we hear the weather forecast and the decision is made by our commander that we better break camp and call off our hunting trip because snow is predicted big time in the big mountains.
OK Solberg:So guys, we spent the night, the next night in a warm bed in a motel in Gardner, Montana. Oh, what a pleasant night that was. Warm, dry, and cozy.
OK Solberg:Well, we get up the next morning and it's decided to head back to good old Malta, Montana. Get out of the big mountains before this snowstorm gets serious.
OK Solberg:So those two horses had been loaded and unloaded and they spent the night inside the trailer that night, so we head north. And the closer we got to Malta, well, the worse it got.
OK Solberg:We got in between the D-Y and the Zortman turn off and there's a pile of snow in the middle of the highway 4 feet high. I kid you not.
OK Solberg:The snowplow couldn't push through it and there it sat and there we sat unable to go further and unable to turn that pickup and trailer around.
OK Solberg:Well, we waited just a while and we got a ride from someone who had come behind us And we ended up at the D-Y bar and Jack said, I bet we can spend the night here.
OK Solberg:And we knocked on the door and it was answered by B.Z. Freestone. No B Z sees Frackin me. B.Z. sees Jack and he says, well, hello, Jack. Good to see you. Come on in.
OK Solberg:Jack explains the situation to B.Z. B.Z. says, well, you can camp right here. And we slept in beds again that night because the weather outside was frightful.
OK Solberg:Oh, PS. Those 2 horses spent the night in the trailer again on Highway 191. We had the horsepower, but we never got to use it.
OK Solberg:And if you don't believe me, to the library, pull down the 1981 Phillips County newspapers, and simply open to October 15. The October 15 edition, which is a Thursday because the PCN came out on Thursdays back then, and you can read all about it.
OK Solberg:Here in Malta, they were putting up travelers from Highway 2, and they were putting them up in sleeping bags and bedrolls on the floor of the city hall. That's a true story. 45 years ago, go read the paper, I'm not making this up.
OK Solberg:We made it back to our pickup and trailer and about noon the next day, the snowplow finally got punched through and we made it back to Malta. It was the time. We had plenty of horsepower but never got to use it.
OK Solberg:In Job 37 verses 5-6 it says, God thunders wondrously with his voice. He does great things that we cannot comprehend. For to the snow, he says, fall on the earth. Likewise, to the downpour, his mighty downpour. Job 37 5-6
OK Solberg:Put your booties on, guys. It's cold out there.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.