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OntarioVanMan

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The Harding County coyote calling contest will be this weekend. Registration is Friday, from 5:00pm to 8:00pm at the No. 3 Saloon in Buffalo. There will be a calcutta following the registration. Coyote hunting should really be good this year – they’re thicker than fleas on a hound!! Taz, Trig and Ryne Baier shot one here Sunday morning before the church program. Hope you coyote callers get a lot of ‘em.

There were a lot of mountain lions in the news this week. GF&P collared and “relocated†a mountain lion after it killed a deer in Spearfish last week. Last we heard it was headed north toward the Slim Buttes!! Thats toward my place!! Another mountain lion was killed by a landowner near Howard in southeastern South Dakota on Monday. He shot it under a granary after it tried to kill his dog.

An exciting article in the Lawrence County News about the mountain lion that Marlene Todd met face to face early Thursday morning while she was sitting in her hot tub in Deadwood. She heard something and turned to look the crouched mountain lion in the eye less than six inches from her face! Evidently the lion had been watching deer on her lawn and fixed its attention on Todd after she climbed into her Jacuzzi. The cougar stared at her a while, then leaped onto the side of the tub, knocking her bathrobe in the water, and left in the direction of the deer. I’ll bet Todd didn’t need coffee to get her blood circulating that morning

A new Airline for SD....

Ve are pleased to announce Lutran Viking Air is now operating in Minnysota, and also serving Visconsin, Nort and Sout Dakota.

If you are travelin soon, consider Lutran Viking Air, da no-frills airline. You're all in da same boat on Lutran Air, vhere flyin is an upliftin experience.

Dere is no First Class on any Lutran Viking Air flight. Meals are potluck. Rows 1-6, bring rolls; 7-15, bring a salad; 16-21, a main dish, and 22-30, a dessert. Basses and tenors please sit in da rear of da aircraft.

Everyone is responsible for his or her own baggage. All fares are by free vill offering and a plane vill not land 'til da budget is met. Pay attention to your flight attendant, who vill acquaint you wit da safety system aboard dis Lutran Viking Air 599.

Okay den, listen up. I'm only gonna say dis vonce. In da event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, I am frankly going to be real surprised and so vill Captain Olson, because ve fly right aroun two tousant feet, so loss of cabin pressure vould probably mean da Second Coming or someting of dat nature, and I wouldn't bodar wit doze liddle masks on da rubber tubes. You're gonna have bigger tings to worry about den dat. Just stuff doze back up in dair little holes. Probably da masks fell out because of turbulence, which to be honest wit you, ve're going to have quite a bit of at two tousand feet, sorta like driving across a plowed field, but after a while you get used to it.

In da event of a water landing, I'd say forget it. Start saying da Lord's Prayer and just hope you get to da part about forgiff us our sins as we do doze who sin against us. Uff da!

Da use of cell phones on da plane is strictly forboten, not because day may confuse da plane's navigation system, which is seat-av-da-pants all da vay. No, it's cuz cell phones are a pain in da wazoo, and if God meant you to use a cell phone, he would have put your mout on da side of your head.

Ve start lunch right about noon and it's buffet style wit da coffee pot up front. Den ve'll have da hymn sing; hymnals are in da seat pocket in front of you. Don't take yours wit you ven you go or I am going to be real upset and I am not kiddin! Right now I'll say Grace: "Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest, and let deze gifts to us be blessed. Fadar, Son, and Holy Ghost, May ve land in Dulut or pretty close."

Happy Landin wit da Lutran Viking Airline!
 
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