Last Thursday we finished the sale and felt good about it. We had over 5,300 head and finished the sale before 4 p.m.
Very soon after someone said there is a fire on Reger hill, which is a few miles west of Woodward. Within minutes several people said, you better go check on the place I have just north of Woodward and by the time I went a mile west and a mile north they were stopping traffic from going farther north.
We were lucky there but most neighbors north of there were not so lucky with some saving their homes and losing all their grass, with others losing their homes and everything. What a helpless feeling.
One cowboy said that he hardly ever wears shorts but just so happened to walk out of the house in shorts without his hat. And lost everything. If you feel God has been good to you in whatever way he has I ask you to be good to these people. Life is short. What you make of it and what you do for other people will be a lot more important than stacking up extra money for your kids to fight over.
Fires are hard to understand and particularly hard to understand is anyone who would intentionally set one.
My sister and her husband had a fire the next day losing several cows and calves and a horse, but feeling very lucky to be alive. We will have an auction next week at the sale to help raise money for these fire victims again this year.
If you send $1 or perhaps a lot more I promise we will give it to someone who desperately needs it. You may send a check to Woodward Livestock Auction, P.O. Box 1253, Woodward, Oklahoma 73802, and note fire relief in the memo line. If you can’t do that I ask you to pray that our entire area will get a rain and also that these people will feel love from their neighbors and also feel that God does really care about them.
I just read where now a study shows one alcoholic drink a day could shorten your life expectancy. And all this time I thought they said one drink a day was good for you.
I wish they would make up their mind. I can’t tell whether I’m going to live longer or not. And since my mom reads this article I better not say which category I fit in. Have a good week and remember to be nice to those who need it this week.
Editor’s note: Jerry Nine, Woodward, Oklahoma, is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family’s ranch near Slapout, Oklahoma.
