Helping out

[BRG]

There is no place like West River SD. A next door neighbor has been battling a serious illness, so the neighbors have gone together to help with his haying. Today their are 7 balers, 2 cutters and 2 rakes going, and last week their were 3 more cutters going as well. You gotta love the country life. Thank goodness this is a great neighborhood so he can take care of himself instead of worrying about his hay.

 

[Faster horses]

There is no place like West River SD. A next door neighbor has been battling a serious illness, so the neighbors have gone together to help with his haying. Today their are 7 balers, 2 cutters and 2 rakes going, and last week their were 3 more cutters going as well. You gotta love the country life. Thank goodness this is a great neighborhood so he can take care of himself instead of worrying about his hay.

That is wonderful and a concrete testimonial to great neighbors.
The same thing would, and has, happened here.
I hope your neighbor makes a full recovery.

 

[BRG]

There is no place like West River SD. A next door neighbor has been battling a serious illness, so the neighbors have gone together to help with his haying. Today their are 7 balers, 2 cutters and 2 rakes going, and last week their were 3 more cutters going as well. You gotta love the country life. Thank goodness this is a great neighborhood so he can take care of himself instead of worrying about his hay.

That is wonderful and a concrete testimonial to great neighbors.
The same thing would, and has, happened here.
I hope your neighbor makes a full recovery.

I reread my post, and I made it sound like western SD is the only place that would help a neighbor. I didn't mean to sound like that, I am just proud of our neighborhood.

 

[BRG]

They made 800 bales today.

 

[Shortgrass]

There is no place like West River SD. A next door neighbor has been battling a serious illness, so the neighbors have gone together to help with his haying. Today their are 7 balers, 2 cutters and 2 rakes going, and last week their were 3 more cutters going as well. You gotta love the country life. Thank goodness this is a great neighborhood so he can take care of himself instead of worrying about his hay.

That is wonderful and a concrete testimonial to great neighbors.
The same thing would, and has, happened here.
I hope your neighbor makes a full recovery.

I reread my post, and I made it sound like western SD is the only place that would help a neighbor. I didn't mean to sound like that, I am just proud of our neighborhood.

Rightfully so!

 

[Faster horses]

There is no place like West River SD. A next door neighbor has been battling a serious illness, so the neighbors have gone together to help with his haying. Today their are 7 balers, 2 cutters and 2 rakes going, and last week their were 3 more cutters going as well. You gotta love the country life. Thank goodness this is a great neighborhood so he can take care of himself instead of worrying about his hay.

That is wonderful and a concrete testimonial to great neighbors.
The same thing would, and has, happened here.
I hope your neighbor makes a full recovery.

I reread my post, and I made it sound like western SD is the only place that would help a neighbor. I didn't mean to sound like that, I am just proud of our neighborhood.

I never thought that, so don't worry about it. It's certainly good to discuss great neighbors!!

We had some great neighbors in SW Montana too. One older neighbor helped us and we mentioned to him that we could never repay him for what he had done and he smiled and said, "Just pass it on." Great advice from someone we totally respected and we have tried to do just that in the years since.

 

[gcreekrch]

Someone I knew had a BIL die over in Alberta just prior to harvest time. The widow's neighbors told her they would combine her crop as soon as THEIR OWN was in the bin.

Local Hutterite Colony was moving to a different field and pulled into the widow's one morning with 6 combines. By that evening her crop was in the bin. The widow asked what they needed for their help and was told the good relationship with her husband had paid in full.

 

[Denny]

The year I broke my hip my neighbor's got together and hauled all my hay into the stackyards in about 8 hours. It was overwhelming.

 

[JDBalerman]

Just look to High River Alberta, and we thank the hundreds and hundreds of volunteers that have stepped in to help clean up the mess after the flood. There were about ten from one group that came down the in-laws basement stairs into the 6 to 8 inches of silt and muck left by 8 feet of water from the Highwood river. Not a single complaint about how hard and dirty a job it was...Just smiles and a "lets get-er-done" attitude. VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS

 

[Clarencen]

A friend gave me a book to read named The Witness of the Combines. It is a book of short stories written by a South Dakota writer. His first story tells of how his family worked together on their Minnesota farm after his father died. They planted and tended the crops. When it came time to harvest the neighbors came with their combines and got it done. Not a great book, I suppose, but a lot of things in it I can identify with.

 

[muleskinner]

That sounds like what my friends and neighbors did for me a couple of years ago. Had to have surgery to remove cancer at the begining of hay season. All my hay got made and anything I needed done got done. We all have good neighbors to thank for things.

 

[mrj]

So many good examples of caring for our neighbors, and that has gone on for ages past in rural, small communities, and even in places in larger cities where this is a good sense of 'community'.

Out here from the early days, people had to work together to survive BUT easing the loneliness had to be a large part of it, too, it seems to me.

It is sad the popular myth, books, movies, etc. perpetrate the early ranchers as predatory, taking land, water, whatever, away from the less strong in so many areas has such tenacity and longevity.

Maybe that is just part of the sad fact that danger and violence sells so much better than kindness and honesty in our entertainment today.

mrj