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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 04:05 coffee break. Guys, it's getting hot out there. You got your suntan lotion, get an umbrella, cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water, milk, Kool Aid, or lemonade, and let's see what's happening. Spring wheat, oh, no. Going down, guys.
OK Solberg:$5.80 a bushel. 550 pound steer calf, $3.95 on the top end. A butcher hog at Omaha, 65¢ a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb Billings at $2.18 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more. Okay.
OK Solberg:This one is for one of my dearest friends. Yes, it is. This one is for one of my dearest friends. And often times I use the phrase who shall remain nameless and then I shout out their name. Not so today.
OK Solberg:This friend will know when he hears this that it's a tribute to him. No name's necessary. You know, guys, I have a lot of friends. That makes me very happy. In life, I've found you can have too many things.
OK Solberg:In life, you can have too many obligations. Also in life, you can have too many expectations. But I have found in life, you can never have too many friends. So bear with me if you've heard me tell this story before. It's a good story, it's true, and I have shared it before.
OK Solberg:But I use it today because there is a new ending to it that just happened this morning. Back in the 1980's , I had an angus bull that kept getting out before breeding season. It's late May or early June, and this ornery bull kept his nose pointed up and there was a freshness in the air and a wayward spirit in this old Angus bull. He'd bust through any fence and go to the neighbor's cows. Now if you've never raised cattle, I'll tell you one thing that neighbors do not care for, they do not like a bull getting into their cattle herd before breeding season.
OK Solberg:Well, this wasn't his first defense. This guy was a repeat offender, and it happened to be one of the few days that it rained that year. So it's raining and my bull is in with the neighbor's cows. Well, I saddle up my horse and knowing that this bull won't come home willingly, I asked my friend and neighbor Tim Bruckner to help me capture this cantankerous bull. Well, Tim, he brought his horse over and away we went.
OK Solberg:It takes some time and effort, the guy didn't come home willingly, but after a few hours, we got him in the corral. And I remember it well. I put him in the corral and Tim and I are gonna head to the house and dry off and have a cup of coffee. Then this great idea came upon me. I'll teach this bull a lesson he'll never forget.
OK Solberg:I'll lock him in the squeeze chute. Yes, sir e Bob. We had a Thorson squeeze chute. And so Tim and I, we drove him down the alley and I squeezed him up good and tight. Good and tight.
OK Solberg:As Tim and I had coffee, I had an even better idea. I'll leave him in overnight. That should take the wander out of him. And guys, I did just that. But guess what?
OK Solberg:The next morning I go down to the corral and I remember this horror feeling come upon me, this horror feeling. The bull was dead. Standing there stiff as a board, deader then a doornail. Do not keep a bull in the squeeze chute overnight. Anyway, I told the story often.
OK Solberg:I hope it helps you to not do the things I've done. But I also told it at Jim Robinson's funeral just yesterday. A bunch of cattlemen would like to hear a story like that in the airs of my ways. There was laughter from the audience, and then we watched a nice slideshow of Jim's life, roping pictures, riding pictures, picture after picture, let's just say cowboy pictures. And I'm thinking and I'm thinking like a cowboy.
OK Solberg:They love to throw a one liner at you whenever possible. Oh, it's done in good humor, but still it has a little sting to it. So I realized what some of these cowboys might say to me after the funeral, and I can hear it now. They'd come up to me straight face and say, you know, Orvin, it's just as well you got out of the business. Meaning, if you're that dumb to do that to a breeding bull, you'll never make it in the cattle business.
OK Solberg:So I shared those exact words knowing that if I said it, they couldn't say it. It worked beautifully. No tongue in cheek comments after the funeral, but I told it this morning as I drank coffee with a couple of my good friends. And on queue, without hesitation, my friend said, you made a preemptive strike. Guys, it was prettier than pretty spot on perfect, a man that listens and retains things I say and uses them at the correct time.
OK Solberg:My hat is off to you, my friend. Here's to my dear friend. Listen to this bible verse. As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Proverbs twenty seven seventeen, you sharpen me with your quick wit and gentle humor.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.