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I wanna again welcome you into The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottled water. Let's see what's happening out there. Spring wheat $5.20 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.41 a pound, a butcher hog in Iowa, 66ยข a pound six six, and a 100 pound lamb that's fat in Billings at $2.13. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. I promise not to say about anything about baseball today. Promise. Since it's a travel day and the World Series doesn't resume until tomorrow on Friday in Toronto.
OK Solberg:So nothing about baseball today. And I definitely won't tell you about Joe DiMaggio having a 56 game stretch where he got at least one hit in every game spanning 56 straight games back in 1941. You know, the Heinz fifty seven company was gonna pay him $10,000 if he got 57, but he didn't. Yeah. I was born in '57. So I got that going for me. So no baseball today.
OK Solberg:If you listened yesterday, you may have heard me tell you that I got to help Jimmy Murdoch work cattle on Wednesday because he was shipping calves. Well, yesterday, I went to the equity co op to buy me a new pair of white line working gloves. While I was there, I happened to see the sorting sticks in the entryway. I thought, you know, I already have three, but a pastor can't have too many sorting sticks. So I took one to the till.
OK Solberg:As Virgil Abrahamson saw the sorting stick, he instantly said the best words I could have possibly heard at that moment in time. Virgil picked up the sorting stick to scan it and said, don't get run over. She's only bluffing. Wow. Perfect lead in for a wonderful story.
OK Solberg:There was a young man that moved to Phillips County some decades past, and he answered to the name of Randy. Now he's moved away now. But Randy was helping out there at the French ranch, Bill and Corky, you know, French's.
OK Solberg:And he was a big strong guy, bulging biceps, and well, in fact, he was an arm wrestler. Well, Randy could arm wrestle, but he hadn't worked too many cattle, and he wanted to learn how. Now he saw the French family out there in the corral, and they were stepping this direction and stepping that direction, and, well, it looked pretty easy to get the cows to go where you wanted. Randy thought he'd take a crack at it. Well, they're sorting cows in a 12 foot wide sorting alley and there are gates.
OK Solberg:Bill, he told Randy to stand near this gate, and if Bill hollered Randy's name, Randy. Well, if he heard that, he was to turn the cow into the pen. Easy peasy, quick, and easy. Sounded good to Randy. So the sorting began.
OK Solberg:It was working pretty well. When Bill said bye, meaning let the cow go by, Randy would do it. Then Bill would holler to Randy, and he'd turn the critter into the pen. Well, the day continued, Bill said bye, bye. And then he said, Randy.
OK Solberg:Well, Randy tried, but the cow went right by and he did not get her into the desired pen. Bill patiently walked up to Randy, patiently walked up to Randy and simply said, I believe the boys would have turned that one in. And Randy, he got the message, and he was gonna learn how or die trying. And the sorting continued. Bill called, bye bye, Randy.
OK Solberg:Randy. And here come an angry old blister that had her head cocked sideways and blowing snot and bellower'in. Oh my, Randy wasn't afraid or nothing. If Bill wanted her in, he was gonna turn her in. Randy stood his ground. She let out one more power for Bellerin, she hit Randy right in the chest, knocked him flat on the ground, and out the back end she ran.
OK Solberg:Bill, again, walked patiently up to Randy as he dusted himself off, and Bill said, I believe the boys would've let that one by. If you never worked cattle, you might not understand the magnitude of this story. But let me explain. Most cows you can turn in, but believe me, not George Brown, Tom Bossche, nor Larry Mahan can turn some of them in. You have to be able to read the cow.
OK Solberg:See, some bluff, but others ain't bluffing. So back to Virgil's well placed comment when I purchased a sorting stick yesterday. Don't get run over. She's only bluffing. That's exactly the way he said it.
OK Solberg:But I thought about it quite a bit. If the truth be known, it could have been two separate statements that someone, maybe Virgil, heard. The first one probably was, she's only bluffing. And the second one, I did get run over, so she weren't bluffing. It's fun to have fun, fun to learn about cows, and fun to remember the times.
OK Solberg:And guys, I got my new gloves. I got my new gloves just dirty enough to make you feel pretty good about it.
OK Solberg:I'll close again with a bible verse. It says in Deuteronomy 11:15 and I will send grass in your fields for your cattle that may they may eat and be full. Ah, yes. To eat and be full and cattle.
OK Solberg:But tune in tomorrow because I'm gonna be eating something. I'm gonna be eating crow and getting full on it. So until next time. As you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.