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[jdawgsworld]

Big score buying that bus. Congrats, I'm real jealous. Plus the "how to draw cats" book. You know how long I have been trying to draw a decent picture of my cats?

How long?

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[jdawgsworld]

i know.... worth the price of the bus right there. my cat pictures have improved sooooooo much.

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[Smokey's pipe dream]

man you lucked out half of your schoolie was done for you cooool

 

[kidharris]

Thanks Bansil, that is the area the bus came from. it was quite beautiful there.... except for all the border patrol.

the new home of the bus is now on the eastern plains of Colorado.

Are you any where close to Crook, Proctor, Or Sterling?

 

[turf]

i am a couple of miles from North Sterling State Park.

so... yes to all the above. 10-12 miles or so

 

[kidharris]

i am a couple of miles from North Sterling State Park.

so... yes to all the above. 10-12 miles or so

as a child I lived on a farm there, long time ago, good memories, don't remember a "North Sterling State Park"

 

[turf]

its a small world! hiya neighbor

sterling is about 10 miles south of me, proctor is about 10 east of me. my house makes the 3 a right triangle. the big town of crook is further east another 10-15 miles.

been here since 2000. i think i got the bus in '11.

 

[kidharris]

its a small world! hiya neighbor

sterling is about 10 miles south of me, proctor is about 10 east of me. my house makes the 3 a right triangle. the big town of crook is further east another 10-15 miles.

been here since 2000. i think i got the bus in '11.

My experience has been that most people don't even realize that Colorado has a plains area, think its all mountains. When I lived there coyotes were a big problem to the farmers, is that still true? Proctor was just a small gas station with a billiards table and sold 22 ammo. Crooks claim to fame was that it had the local school, grades 1-12 and a 4h club, most kids rode the bus & graduating classes were really small. Sterling was where every one shopped. We went there once a month.

 

[turf]

lololol, very true!!!!!!
well, colorado has that purple mountain majesty stuff, , but yes, i live out on the fruited plains. people don;t understand that colorado has a big ugly part.

my guess is that proctor and crook and sterling are smaller than when you lived here.
crook still has a gas station/store. dont know that i;ve seen a pool table there but would not doubt it. cafes come and go but i think thats it. they have a fun summer fair! i think highshool is consolidated now to sterling or sedgwick. but idk for sure.

the area has lost population. it seems the 70s might have been the hey day for the area.

 

[kidharris]

lololol, very true!!!!!!
well, colorado has that purple mountain majesty stuff, , but yes, i live out on the fruited plains. people don;t understand that colorado has a big ugly part.

my guess is that proctor and crook and sterling are smaller than when you lived here.
crook still has a gas station/store. dont know that i;ve seen a pool table there but would not doubt it. cafes come and go but i think thats it. they have a fun summer fair! i think highshool is consolidated now to sterling or sedgwick. but idk for sure.

the area has lost population. it seems the 70s might have been the hey day for the area.

It was round 1960, maybe 1959, when I was there.


Looking on Goggle Earth, Proctor is now more than just an old wooden, 1 pump gas station on the side of the only paved road.


I never went anywhere in Crook except to school, but it looks pretty much the same on GE satellite pics. Graduating class wasn't but just a few students, maybe 8-10??, so it makes sense that it was consolidated into another area. IDK much, i was in grade school, but a lot of kids on the bus were teenagers.


Farm life was great for a kid even though it was seemingly endless work. 300 acres, half pasture with a prairie dog town and trash dump in one corner with lots of rattlesnakes, and a creek running across it and a silage pit dug up by the barns, half under the plow (mostly cattle feed - hand weeded beets, alfalfa, maize, sorghum, corn - but some sold) and irrigated by ditches- seems like our water was only in the ditches at 02:00 in the night. Milking operation, (lot of work - morning and evening, 365 days a year) hogs, chickens, rabbits, turkeys, geese (guard duty), cattle, 2 collies - for killing & chasing off the coyotes and guinea fowl for coyote alarm - they roosted on the top of the barns and could see everything and are very noisy & loud when a coyote or other stranger comes around.


Big garden by the house.

 

[turf]

wow KH!!!

most folks reading this probably dont understand silage.
that a very cool history!! and different than now...... most folk only do dairy, or ranch/farm. i dont think i know anyone that does both.

this area is still majority ag, but its slimming down in population and corporation farms are buying up the land. fewer operators, same amount of land.

keep up the garden!! im always amazed how much pride and joy i get from my own garden.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/n93uHbLK1reKmQTy9

im at road 52 and 41.... 10 miles or so