Gaia targeting Olson ranch

Remember when Betty Olson said global warming is bunk because it's cold? Well, maybe she needs extreme grassland fire weather instead.

Earth hating Republicans like Betty Olson are destroying South Dakota.

Grand River Roundup

By Betty Olson

2-25-26

  Monday was President’s Day so we didn’t get any mail that day. It was a nice day so Reub and I put more firewood in the entryway for when it gets colder outside. Casey had left for Buffalo for wrestling practice with the Harding County wrestlers when Taz got the alert that there was a fire over east at the Nash ranch so Taz and Reub jumped into the fire-fighting unit and headed over there to help put the fire out. The wind wasn’t blowing hard and it was just a small grass fire. The fire headed down toward the Big Nasty Creek and the guys got it put out pretty quick. Thank God the wind wasn’t blowing like it was later in the week. Nash’s and a whole lot of other neighbors were here to help put out a fire on our ranch several years ago and we are really thankful to live in this neighborhood with so many good people here to help with whatever our problems are!

  Reub helped the guys move the cows across the highway from Coyote’ Butte to the pasture northeast of the buildings Tuesday morning because the cows will be calving soon. They brought some of the cows that looked like they are getting close to calve into the lot across the creek so they can keep an eye on them.

  It was really windy and cold when Reub and I went to Lemmon on Wednesday to meet with Attorney Jim Elsing to get the new wills he wrote for us. We asked our dear friends Audie and Wendy Brockel to come and sign the wills as witnesses for us and it was really nice to be able to visit with them a little while. We stopped in Hettinger on the way home to get stuff from Runnings but we had to hurry to get home in time to get ready for the Ash Wednesday Lenten service and potluck supper at the church that evening with communion during the service. A nice crowd came to enjoy the service and fellowship after the supper. 

  Thursday, February 19, was our son Sandy Dan’s birthday and this winter was a lot better than the year he was born in 1979. The winter of 1978 and 79 was horrible and there were weeks when the snow was so deep we couldn’t make it out to the highway to take our kids to school. We had been blocked in for two weeks when Reub got the snow plowed enough to make it out to the highway the day I went into labor. Reub took me to the hospital in Hettinger and went home that evening after Sandy was born. 

I was listening to the weather the next morning and there was another blizzard rolling in. Reub’s parents, Buck and Amy Olson, had their car in Hettinger getting fixed, so I called the garage and asked if their car was fixed yet. They said it was, so I asked them to bring it up to the hospital for me and then I packed up, wrapped Sandy Dan in a warm blanket, and headed for home after calling Reub to let him know we were coming. 

The blizzard didn’t start until I turned south at Reeder and headed down Highway 79 where the drifts on both sides of the road were higher that the roof on our house and there was only room for one vehicle on the highway. It was a struggle to make it through the blizzard and the bad road but when I made it down to the road into our place Reub and Pastor Phil Rokke were waiting to get us into the ranch safely. That was a stupid thing to do, but thank God we got home without getting stuck on the highway and it was two more weeks before we could get out again!