The tanks are nearly dry and we'll begin watering the stock from wells and feeding hay by September. Things are bad all around, but we all help each other out. It will pass. This too, will surely pass. Now school has started.
Children here have to get up early in order to catch the bus into Toad.
There was a time when we had a one room school house to serve all the ranch children in this part of the county. School just isn't what it used to be. Marvin Hunter used to call it the Star Strangled Banner because we sang loudly, not necessarily well. Nevertheless, we pledged and sang with feeling. The feelings are still there even after all these years.