Oberon Oracles: May 9, 2022

Lester Roberts attended the consignment auction sale in Leeds on Friday.

Sunday, Lester and many others helped Mildon Barney celebrate his 93rd birthday.

Lezlee Thorson visited her dad on Sunday and also took in the birthday celebration.

Carrie Prince’s son, Ryan Madson of Escondido, Calif., participated in the Belgian Waffle Ride on Saturday. This is a 134.25 mile bicycle ride with an elevation gain of 10,799 feet with 9.25 hours moving time. Ryan finished 288th overall out of almost 1,400 riders.

Sunday, Ryan rode in the Belgian Waffle Ride called the Dubbler. Sunday’s ride was 75.69 miles elevation gain of 6,030 feet with moving time of 5.28 hours. We are in awe of his stamina and ability to do this.

Linda Madson had coffee with Melodie Saturday afternoon.

Friday, John and Donna Grann, Lacey Grann and Mitch Wirth attended the spring football scrimmage at the University of Jamestown to watch Johnny Grann.

Brittany and Dutton Grann went to Fargo on Saturday to celebrate the confirmation of Brittany’s niece, Haley.

Dave Kenner and Randy Simon visited Todd Buehler this last week.

Michael and Breana Pacheco, Waylon and Mavis were weekend visitors at the Todd and Nadley Buehler farm.

Saturday afternoon, Beau, Bria, Brittin and Brooks Buehler; Hunter, Grace and Hendrick Buehler celebrated birthdays and had supper and cake together at the Buehler farm with Todd and Nadley and the Pachecos. Brittin, Michael and Bria all celebrated birthdays.

On Sunday, Hunter, Grace and Hendrick visited the family at the farm for dinner.

Dawn Ihry spent Friday evening and Saturday at the Hunter and Grace Buehler home, snuggling grandson, Hendrick.

Doris Griffin attended Timely topics on Wednesday and went to the Benson County Extension Gardening Seminar in Maddock on Thursday.

Continuing Doris’ information about her geese: She has three geese sitting now. One has five eggs, one 11 and the other one hasn’t left her nest at all so Doris doesn’t know how many eggs she has. A goose usually will have 12 eggs, but her geese laid so early and the eggs would have frozen so she snatched a few. Doris has it on good authority that one goose egg makes the best three chicken omelet. Doris’s geese have been sitting about three weeks now.

The gooses’ body processes slow down while sitting and her body temperature increases. That means that she will not eat, drink, or go to the bathroom during the sitting time, except for a time or two when she will slip off the nest to grab a quick bite to eat and a quick sip of water and then hustle right back to her nest. Quite often, the male will chase her back to her nest.

When she leaves the nest, she covers it with what is handy, as well as her own feathers that she pulls out. The nest is left in a neat circle and the outer circumference of the circle shows beak marks clearly where she has tucked everything in very neatly.

That is it for this week.

Words to Live By: The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.