The cold morning air around Valley Township was made a little warmer at the Single Arrow ranch on Friday. According to reports, Ron LaFourtune was on his way to the shop so he could feed the cattle when he saw that the tractor was on fire. The Highmore Fire Department was dispatched and the blaze, which was made urgent because Ron had filled the tractor with fuel the previous day, was under control.

The extent of the damage in the shop has not been determined as of yet. The tractor is definitely not usable. There were numerous artifacts that Ron's father in law, Henry had collected through the years. One project that had a moderate bit of smoke damage was Cody LaFourtune's restored Volkswagen Beetle. Harold Hinkle reports that, ironically, the passenger side had a sign on the dashboard proclaiming, "Don't even think about smoking in this car!"

Ron had insurance on the shop, but is not sure what it covers. He will find out in short order unless we miss our guess.

It was almost, but not quite zero on Friday, reaching only half a degree above the 0 mark. After an overnight low of -23 it got up to 8 degrees. That's a 31 degree difference. And oh what a difference it was too!

Kristi Hinkle had EMT duty at Gettysburg, so Mary Hinkle had the kids. Brittany Hinkle was so stir crazy she scrubbed the Ponderosa toilet in order to go to the stock dam to ice skate, only to be told that there was no ice in the stock dam. She might not fall for that one again.

While in Pierre last week I was waiting at the Econo-foods Store and happened upon a bargain basement section of DVD's. I purchased 3 for a total of $3.18

One of these selections was "His Girl Friday", starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. It is a remake of the old film "The Front Page".I had seen the movie before, so it was predictable in spots, and yet there were certain details of this comedy that I had forgotten had become more pronounced. Best of all, it was funny.

There are some who, on their first watching may think this movie over rated. In fact, a lot of the humor comes from inside jokes. The story holds up to the test of time however. Perhaps if the right couple came along in 2005, there could be yet another remake of the story.

Grant plays Walter Burns, crusading Editor of the Morning Post, A daily paper in New York State. Russell is Hildy Johnson, a former reporter of the Morning Post (AND Walter's ex-wife). Burns is trying to get a man off of death row, as well as get Hildy back at the paper-and as his wife. Will Hildy write the story that will get the condemned man off? Will Walter and Hildy get back Together? Go to Econo-foods, or whatever your local Nash-Finch grocery store is called and find out for yourself. A few familiar faces have supporting roles in this flick, like Ralph Bellamy from "Trading Places" and Gene Lockhart from "Miracle on 34th Street".

This movie was, in my opinion $1 and 90 minutes well spent. The best part is, I can spend the time again and again and again.

That's all for this edition so until next time remember to treat those DVD's like they are made of glass, because they are.