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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 want again. Welcome here to the 405 Coffee Break Thursday, guys. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water. Let's see what's happening Spring Wheat $5.71 a bushel.
OK Solberg:550 pound steer calf. Not selling many, but they're going for $3.95 all the way up to $4.25, depending on the condition. A butcher hog in Iowa, 57ยข a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings at $2.15, but guys there's more, much more. Here in Malta, on the corner of Central Avenue and 9th Street is a place called Highline Market. You know the place.
OK Solberg:A meat market and soup and sandwiches. Open 8AM till six. But that used to be Micks Texaco, and after that, it used to be Micks Honda. Now you're probably scratching your head and thinking, wait wait wait, Orvin. I thought that used to be Packies.
OK Solberg:And you too are correct. See? From Micks Texaco to Micks Honda to Packies, and now it's Highline Market. So all that to say, on the south side of that building, which used to be Micks, there was a sign in the 1960s that read, if you lived here, you'd be home now. And I know I talked about it before on the 405, but I'm using that as my starting point for today's program because like Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, there's no place like home.
OK Solberg:Have you ever heard someone say every road leads home? Now the point of this exercise is to realize that many of us live right here in Malta, Montana, and we are home. There's also another saying, you don't know what you got till it's gone. But see, to us that live here and to us that call it home, it isn't gone, we have it. And I want you to understand that one of the things that can so easily be taken for granted is we don't notice when we have it.
OK Solberg:So I want you to notice it. If you lived here, you'd be home now. I do live here, and I'm happy, I do, and I'm happy, I know it. Listen to the Bible verse from Genesis 31-3, Then the Lord said to Jacob, return, return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.
OK Solberg:Yes, the Lord told him to go back home. There is no place like home. Military personnel deployed into service through the decades and even centuries always caught themselves thinking of home. So listen to a song I have for you today. I won't sing it, but I will share the words.
OK Solberg:It came out in 1963, the year I was in first grade and the year JFK was assassinated. But it is a good song, and it was sung by Bobby Bear. I wanna go home. I wanna go home. Oh, how I wanna go home.
OK Solberg:Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City, and I dreamed about those cotton fields and home. I dreamed about my mother, dear old paw, sister and brother. I dreamed about that girl who's been waiting for so long. I wanna go home. I wanna go home.
OK Solberg:Oh, how I wanna go home. Home folks think I'm big in Detroit City. From the letters that I write, they think I'm fine. By days I make the cars, by night I make the bars, if only they could read between the lines. Because you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City, and after all these years I find I've just been wasting my time.
OK Solberg:So I just think, I'll take my foolish pride, put it on a southbound freight and ride, and go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I've left waiting so far behind. I wanna go home. I wanna go home. Oh, how I wanna go home. Bobby Bear, 1963, and remember now, if you lived here, you'd be home now.
OK Solberg:Well, guys, we do live here. I'm glad it doesn't have to disappear before we know its value. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.