Fires in Oklahoma [Reader Post]

Oklahoma is having wildfires, from Kansas to Texas, mostly east of Interstate 35.

Seems strange to me, there are no storms; there has not been any lightning.

Cigarettes? In that large an area?

Conspiracy?

Do not ask me.

The Folly of Short Term Thinking [Reader Post]

….or How to Haul Hay at Night.

Hay bailing, and hauling, in Oklahoma summers is like being in hell during a dust storm.

I recall one particularly hot day when it was well over one hundred degrees with no wind and no clouds to give shade.

Olden Times Values [Reader Post]

“Long long ago, someone I know, had a little red canoe, there was room for only two”…

So starts a song on an old quarter inch thick 78RPM record we played back in the fifties

on a wind-up Victrola with a bamboo needle.

In those days people had values that are laughed at today.