Good morning, gents. Just wanted to share a “quick” story about my day yesterday. I’ve got a good friend who grew up near Taylor, NE (15 miles west of Burwell) who now lives 25 miles southwest of Lincoln. (Kramer/Hallam area)
He has gotten a beef processed from Sargent Pack each year, going back 35-40 yrs. He knows the feeder where the moo-cow comes from, just outside of Sargent. All angus, corn-fed and top shelve beef.
We decided to start getting a half a beef there about theee yrs ago. We committed to the critter, he got processed a couple months later and then the phone call to show up with our checkbook and lots of coolers.
In the past we would meet my friend and his wife (and me with Mrs. Bomber) in Broken Bow, spend the night at the fabled Arrow Hotel, visit Kinkaider’s north of BB for Happy Hour, come back to the Arrow, eat, then sleep, pick up our beef the next morning and go our separate ways.
This year was different, however. Our beef ended up being done sooner than expected. Got the phone call last Friday that it was ready and we needed to get it picked up asap, as the folks at the locker plant needed the freezer space.
Neither of our wives could do the “go out the day before” thing, so he and a couple of buddies headed west yesterday morning around 7 while I had headed east around 5:45, a time that, normally, this old fuck is usually sawing logs. Had to do it tho thanks to the time-zone difference.
We got to the locker plant (who btw has been owned for 40-some yrs by a gent with the name of “Tom Osborne”) within 15 minutes of each other, got our precious cargo loaded, stopped at a small local diner for a burger and two beers and, again, headed our separate ways home.
As a storyteller, I know I’m maybe a distant 3rd place to
@bbenson67 and
@MtnHusker but the real reason for my offering this morning was to share the front end drive of my journey yesterday. Took me back to the harvest days of my yute.
I drove down Hwy 26 SB-Ogallala, then got on 80 to NP. Exited 80 and headed north on 83. The harvest memories came back quickly on that 16 mile drive north to the hwy 92 turnoff that would take me thru Arnold and on east to Merna and eventually to Broken Bow. And then on to the final 25 miles to Sargent.
It was a bright, sunny day (windy as shit, from the SE) and a few miles north of NP, all the way to Sargent, there were combines in more than halve of the cornfields, tractors pulling wagons and semis hauling corn. Just gave me a wave of good memories about all of the silage we chopped and corn that was picked every fall.
I’m always envious when Woodrow, Scotch, GIAH and others perform the simple task of posting pictures here and I always love seeing those pics. I had some of my own pics yesterday, if only thru my eyes and in my memory.
And the cherry on top yesterday was I made it back to ScoBlo safe and sound by somewhere around 5 and ZERO speeding tickets for the day…….😎
Happy and safe harvest to all.
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