Pipi’s Pasture: First day of school back then

Pipi’s Pasture: First day of school back then

School will start shortly for area students. When I see all of the school supplies on store shelves, I think about back-to-school when I was a kid. My first eight grades of school were spent at the Morapos School, a country school just down the road from our ranch house. As I remember, school started a little later than it does now. By then all of the first cutting hay had been put up, and ranchers worked on a little second cutting. The cattle h…