Ronald, I wasn’t a dairy farmer but I milked 320 head 1 1/2 times per day when I was in high school 6 days a week and milking machines are a godsend! I milked any sick ones by hand to keep them from drying up. A whole family would milk all of them the other 1 1/2 times.
Ronald,
There are still coyotes in Oklahoma that love to howl at night. And that D-- train is still blowing its horn at night while I’m trying to sleep. It takes me a week to get used to the train when we go to the farm. My husband can sleep right through those horns and coyotes, not me. Maybe we should add the baby calves crying when we took them from their mothers. You put 200+ babies in a pen and see how much noise they can make. Now I’m sure why I moved to town. Ronald, I’m sorry you missed all the oil booms. I remember them going to drill everything up on Oklahoma in the 50s when I was just a kid, then they were back in the 70s and now. Our school would get 40 to 50 kids for part of the year, then they were gone again. Our roads would be ruined and if you got a tractor tire or equipment tire in the ruts you could have a big problem. We finally got where we hauled the equipment if we went to the farms that were over 6 miles away because of the bad roads, then we would take one tractor and pull the second tractor. But, then we drove the combine and oil trucks thought they had the roads back in those days, so you had to move to the ditch. At least now when I go to the farm and we are putting fence up, we have a really nice guy that hauls oil and he will slow down so we don’t have to eat as much dust. Wish all oil people were that nice. Now they get mad when you don’t want to sell them 10 acres of your best land so they can make a juke yard and drill a well. They think if they have leased they own the place. But, wind companies can beat oil companies all together. Makes me think twice before I will lease some of my land again.
My Dad’s half brother was William. He died fairly young in 1957. He had a son, Billie who may still be around somewhere. I lost track.
A separator, a churn, homemade butter, a little sugar and little bit of milk on hot homemade bread.
I’ve heard there may be some of that stuff in heaven.
Dad’s older sister married Ernie Post. They lived outside Kingfisher.
Ancestor/family on my mother’s side, Wright/Shafer were all in the Crescent area. For years I spelled it Shaffer, but the family tree I read now has it spelled Shafer. Grandpa and cousin worked for the Santa Fe Arkansas City to – Enid? But we on the Wilson side were all Frisco Folks.
Virginia,
We called Arned “Ernie.” He married my Dad’s older half sister Henrietta. There were ten children in Dad’s family. 3 from his dad, 3 from his mother and then four from the marriage.
Arend and Henrietta Post were pretty solid citizens in Kingfisher. Many a holiday playing in the huge hay barns with my cousins. They had one boy who passed a couple of years ago with dementia.
They did help raise Uncle William’s boys. So your connections are good.
how do I view the pooling order
Harley,
What you got was case file, this is what has already been recorded, not what is coming up on the docket or orders. I thought that db was looking for spacing orders that are on the docket. That is where you can read the spacing orders, etc. I’m surprised that you didn’t get some help from OCC helpdesk. Junior has been wonderful, he has helped me find information I needed on their site.
This is how you got to the area that you are at.
Just in case you need to get there again.
Go to “OCC” home page, tab to “Conducting Business”
Scroll down to “Database Search,” over to “Oil & Gas” Click to open.
Down to “New Well Browse Database,” open.
Enter your county, legal, etc. Be sure to fill IM (Indian Meridian) in space.
Once it’s open, click on the magnifying glass.
Scroll down to “All Images” click.
Now you can open all recorded documents.
You can also get the purchases report from the site you went to. But, you will need to know the purchaser of the well and their #.
Chesapeake probably needs the money for their antitrust case in Michigan. I think the Feds are after them again. I hear they have lost a couple of their attorneys, wonder why???
Virginia,
You are right. The link I used is to those things that have been imaged. Looks like they do not scan every day either.
Indeed, multiple times I have called the Helpdesk. Answer person did not know, he either gave me another number to call or took my number for a callback. Have never asked a question and received an answer. Guess my luck is not so good. I will ask for Junior next time.
Just a footnote: Oklahoma Information Technology skills are light years behind Texas Railroad Commission with the Drill Down functionality.
Take a look:
http://shaleoilplays.com/2010/09/how-to-locate-new-oil-wells-in-texas/
Virginia, didn’t you also do a post on Bass case in Texas? They have their work cut out for them.
Sooo, what happens to the Chesapeake rigs?
Ruffed Grouse 1-20H at 20-17-3. The spud notice was online yesterday morning, I even printed it out. The actual spud was March 19. There is a link Ron put up yesterday here somewhere.
Do they drill on weekends? Do they pay the teams overtime? I wonder how much they make and if it is in Pesos?
I am not there right now and so I do not know much about rain and snow the past few months, nor predictions for the coming months. But I do know a whole lot about news and article writing, and the trend now, and has been for months, is it’s all bad news. Any writer who turns in good news articles will very quickly be out looking for a job. TV the same, they all want gloom and doom, make you sick junk articles they just dream up. If you watch the TV 2 weeks you will probably come down with COPD, irregular heart rhythm, diabetes type 2, high blood pressure. We get new diseases and ailments almost weekly, and erectile dysfunction is at the top of the list today. Short, if you ain’t sick with something, you need to see your doctor to see what is wrong with you.
Virginia
Wow - bunks and meals?? Land rig roughnecking is much nicer than when I was there.
Larry,
I do understand what you are talking about. The Hunts & Bass had some of the nicest drilling equipment in that time frame. And getting dirty isn’t the word for it. It’s worse than farming, at least the dust will brush off on farming. I was always glad my husband worked in the office at Halliburton and didn’t have to go to the field. If he did have to go to the field to check a drill bit, it was just throw those clothes away as you never got them clean again.
Wonder what is going to happen with Continental Resources stocks?
I heard that poor Sue Ann Hamm only got 12 million so far out of the divorce settlement from H. Hamm. That isn’t going to last her till summer. I bet she gets a bunch of his stocks and starts cashing them in. Boy, will that stock go down fast. Harold needs to learn to be nice to his wives.
I didn’t mind getting dirty plowing and planting and cultivating in Kansas as a kid, but the real fun came in hand milking 28 Guernseys and getting in squirt fights with my kid brother. He could wash a spider off the wall at 20 feet. But cleaning up after a good ole milk-squirt fight was real sticky business. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you ain’t never been no dairy farmer. LOL Then when I was 16, De Laval came along with new milking machines and spoiled all of the fun.
Virginia, there is always that special one. I had one that liked to open the screen door and come inside and keep me company. I’d tell it shoo, I’m busy and it would go back out. I wish telemarketers were that smart.
My Grandma took a picture of my Mom and my Uncle. She named it Supper on the farm. I think Mom was about 3 or 4 and my Uncle maybe 5 or so. Mom had the tit of a good lookin Guernsey in her mouth and my uncle had a one gallon can of milk up to his lips. On a farm somewhere around Crescent or Marshall I think.
Harley,
Would your Uncle be Bill Baade near Kingfisher, just south of Marshall? I knew a Zaloudek, north of Enid that married a Baade, but I think they were from Pond Creek, don’t remember his name, that was too long ago.
I guess we all have memorial of the good time at the farm, we just didn’t know it was good time when we were kids. We would take the milk and separate it and sell the cream and the milk got fed to bottle babies. We would have at least 25 babies at a time, just a long line of bucket. I do remember the winter best of all, cold and freezing.
Harley,
The person I knew was William “Bill” and was raised by an Uncle named Arend Post or something like that, I think his mother passed away when he was young. I think he passed away a couple years ago at about 60+.
Ronald,
Sorry I didn’t know any Shaffer in Crescent area. I did know a Millie Shaffer in Morrison area, she may be some of yours. Now let’s not get into genealogy. I have mine back to 1448 in Germany, have a small family and no horse thefts. Couldn’t find any lost money either.