Volume 10 , Issue 30

Hello, Dolly! Good-Bye, Dolly!

Maggie & Nugget back in Northwest Oklahoma says, "Hello, Dolly!"

Dolly made the news Wednesday down in Texas. It was the song they might have sung on the southern tip of the Texas Coast around Brownsville up to Corpus Cristi, Texas this Wednesday.

It was mid-week when the category 2 storm, Hurricane Dolly, made landfall around 12:45 p.m., on the southern tip of Texas, around Brownsville, South Padre Island and on up the coast to Corpus Cristi, as it dumped what some have reported as 5-inches of rain in an hour.

Meanwhile... back in Oklahoma and Kansas we hear the "dog days" of Summer have been baking the residents in that part. How HOT was it? If you don't like the heat come to the mountains of southwest Colorado where the humidity level is lower and the temperatures range anywhere from 80's to the 90's. AND... you can always find a shady spot outside filled with a cool breeze if the heat does overtake you.

This Saturday we drove up towards Silverton, Colorado, where the elevation is around the 10,000 feet mark. It was a sunny, partly cloudy, cool day for a town auction near where the Durango & Silverton Narrow Guage Steam engine rolls into town as it delivers tourists to and from Durango and Silverton, in the Southwest corner of Colorado. We did not take the train, though! We drove the 50 miles up the San Juan Mountains and down into Silverton, while passing over Coal Bank Pass at 10,000 feet.

Anyway... at the Silverton auction a working Model-T (or was it a Model A) Ford that ran, but needed some body work, went for $3,500. No! I didn't buy it! What I came away with were some old records, tapes that had been part of a radio station. Amongst my purchase we found were a bunch of "1983-84, America's Top 40's, by Casey Caseum" with the commercials and radio scripts. The whole record set seemed to be in mint condition... No scratches!

Also selling were some old winchester rifles; a civil war rifle with powder horn and a book that brought around $1,650. that was not my purchase, either.

Silverton, Colorado is a unique small mining town in San Juan County that lays at the bottom, between the San Juan Mountains. We did not get back home until about 6:00 p.m. Saturday evening.
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