On the morning bus route, I picked up all school-age groups (K-12) on the road between my house and town (Lincoln Country Road 125). I stopped at Holdaway Elementary School in Thayne. The elementary school kids would exit the bus. Several junior high and high school students would transfer from another bus to my bus. I would then drive to Afton with a couple of stops in the "Narrows".
I dropped the junior high students at the junior high in north Afton. I dropped the high school students at the high school in Afton. After that, I parked the bus at the bus garage. Elmer Wolfley would drive a short bus with all of the lower valley bus drivers and deliver the bus drivers back to their homes. The morning run was about 7:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
In the afternoon, Elmer would come by the ranch again around 2:45 p.m. He picked up the lower valley bus drivers and took us back to the high school for the afternoon bus run. I would arrive back home from the afternoon bus run around 4:15 p.m.
Between the morning and afternoon bus runs, I would load the sleigh and feed the stock (horses and cows). I did morning chores and evening chores before and after the bus run.
At the time, we were using two teams to pull the sleigh for feeding the cows (see picture). One of the roan horses in the rear team was a horse named Dime that Dad borrowed from a friend in Utah. One day when I went in her stall to put on her collar, she tried to squish me against the stall wall. I put my back against her side and pushed on the wall to move her over. She continued to push, so I backhanded her across the side of her face. Unfortunately, this resulted in breaking one of the bones in my hand.
 |
| going to feed (dad driving, Cory (left), Me (right)) either January 1989 or December 1989 |
I did all of the calving that spring and the spring planting. After Annette and I got married, we both ran the ranch together for one month until Dad came home from shearing sheep.
.jpeg)