Volume 13 , Issue 30

NW Okie's Ancestry Corner

Last Friday in the early morning hours of Mountain Daylight Time we headed East towards the Kansas and Oklahoma Summer prairies. We did get to reconnect with our horses, especially Nugget, my favorite palomino. Nugget is special because he was named after a palomino that my dad raised from a colt when we were just young children.

Dad would bring the first Nugget into town and we would ride him around the yard at 703 7th Street. You can view the rest of my horses at OkieLegacy Picasa web album at Linda'a Google+ account. Have you been invited to try Google+? If you are interested, then let me know and I will send you an invite!

How DRY is it in Oklahoma? As you can see by the photo on the right it is so dry that the small farm ponds are in drastic need of a drink. It is so dry that the grass has turned a pale yellowish white and crunches under your feet. It is so dry . . . hay the farmers cut for Winter is being used in Summer; cattle prices are low because farmers having to sell off their cattle; and feed crops planted earlier are really short compared to what it should be. Some have told me their last good rain was over a year ago.

Towards the early evening hours of Sunday you could get the feel of "hope" or possibly rain in the air as the clouds built, accumulated. Some areas across the state only received 12 hundredth of an inch, while the news reported that Freedom, Oklahoma had 90mph winds and an online weather site reported that Freedom had the most rain across the State of Oklahoma, measuring 3/4-inch. BUT . . . It will take more than that to replenish the pastures and ponds, though.

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