Ideal News and Views

News and Views from a few miles north of Ideal, South Dakota. History, agriculture, politics, hunting, bison, Scot heritage, WW11 B-24 Service, prairie life, cattle, weather, horses, Homesteading, and some photos.

Wednesday, April 30, 2003

A light shower this morning(4-30) and forcast of heavier amount this evening. The drought is forgotten. Tomorrow the maidens of the Praire dance around the Maypole carrying a basket of flowers--have you forgotten? A great deal more exciting than a speaker at the Loyalty Day program? Dallas S/D had the Maypole dance the last information I had.

Vet advised to vaccinate the mule for Nile Virus even though only half horse and half Democrat. Barn Swallows and Purple Martins feed on the Virus carrying mosquito. You can order Barn Swallow nests on the Google search engine and advise as to the proper placing fo the nest included.
The sheep are in the rain fell the country looks green with grass and thoughts of the drought have retired.Vet said I should vaccinate the mule even if she is only half horse and half democrat.

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

Friday, April 11, 2003


MESSAGE POSTED COMPLIMENTS OF LOWDON HELLER
Lowdon,
The Sandhills cranes are flying north today. Some were very low over the house. I ran in to get the digital camera.
Stuck in a brand new diskette. Ran outside. Turned on camera and pointed it at cranes right overhead. Almost the
closest I had ever seen them.

Hmmm.. nothing in viewfinder except message......"Diskette Error". Would not wok....and diskette would not eject.
What was wrong? Ran back into house and pulled diskette out with a tweezer...but not just the diskette, along with
the diskette was the full sheet of diskette stick on labels folded neatly so they were the same size as the diskette.

No damage done to camera, diskette or diskette labels, but where were the CRANES? Far enough north already
that I could not even see them but could still hear them squaking and honking. -------- Doug Wiken

Thursday, April 10, 2003

The early morning before the sun rose the booming of the Praire Chicken male was hear.
The Pelicans have arrived and are fishing constantlydd. Last fall two pelicans died here on the water, perhaps the Nile virus got to them. Lowdon

Wednesday, April 09, 2003

LISTIING OF S. DAK. LAWS
South Dakota Codified Laws and Constitution South Dakota Codified Laws

find laws pertaiining to pheasant hunting. year of 2003

Lowdon







COMMENT:::SD COUNTIES NEED ZONING QUICKLY

There is a need for the county to adopt county zoning before July 1 as the
new law will negate the process into the hands of the 5 commissioners.
Emergency meetings of the townships could be called to adopt a semblance of
the ordinance?

When Bell pig farms give up their buildings at wWhite River it would make a
good place to raise pheasants for the preserves. They have controlled
climate, and a way to handle the manure and the market for the birds right
handy in Lyman, Tripp, and Gregory counties ------- Lowdon Heller
TIRED OF THE BUSH OIL WAR SPIN FROM CORPORATE MEDIA GIANTS?

Lowdon,
Congratulations on your new web page and new weblog. You should have a lot of fun posting your ideas to your blogger. I will put
this note in as a test.
LinkCrusader has 700 or more links that are not blathering mindlessly about the "successes" of the Bush team of thugs. Check the option "Over 700 Anti-Bush Links" and you will find lots of blogs. My guess is the links you have forgotten when trying to remember some point can be found here and are organized much better than a "favorites" list that grew like topsey in your web browser. ------------ Doug Wiken

LAT= http://www.linkcrusader.com/
LAT2= http://www.linkcrusader.com/weblogs.htm

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

First Page of IDEAL NEWS AND VIEWS FROM IDEAL, SOUTH DAKOTA.


After having a computer and an internet connection for nearly a year, Lowdon Heller has a web page
Lowdon at Large and now a blog to make
it easy to update local news.

LAT= http://www.gwtc.net/~lowdon