Thought you guys might be interested in this article. Includes video shot around Lamesa, too.

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Dad grew up near Lamesa (Ackerly) and I still have cousins scattered in the area. Hard country.

It is very telling that although we have some of the driest area in the state, the fires are concentrated elsewhere.

We know how to take care of it, even in high winds.

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We know how to take care of it, even in high winds.

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Dirt doesn't burn. And the tumbleweeds are easy to get to.

So far this week, we've had two fires in Oslo.

One was pretty big. Something like twelve miles long and three miles wide from what I've been told. It started where a crew was working on putting up a wind farm.

The second was pretty small and measured in feet instead of miles. It could have gotten big real fast but it was held to a small area.

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Dad grew up near Lamesa (Ackerly) and I still have cousins scattered in the area. Hard country.

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He isn't a damn, dirty Sands Mustang is he?

My folks still farm around Lamesa and my dad says it's the driest he's seen since '83. And that's saying a lot because I remember some really really dry years in the late 90's while I was in high school out there.

Had a wildfire a couple months back that started on the outskirts of Andrews and made it almost all the way to my uncle's place in northern Martin County just south of Lamesa.

Hate seeing it so dry up there. Those areas are drying up figuratively enough already without this.

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He isn't a damn, dirty Sands Mustang is he?

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I think it was just "Ackerly" back in 1946. Wasn't "Sands" the name they changed it to after consolidation?

It might have been. They have "CISD" on all their stuff instead of "ISD" like most schools do, and I never really knew why. Who did they consolidate with? Vealmoor maybe? My parents always referred to it as Sands but they played ball against them much later, in the 70's.

Your dad probably played football against my granddad over at Klondike.

Likely. I do know they played against Sparenberg, because that's how he and mom met. Mom was a cheerleader for Sparenberg, and dad's Ackerly team beat them. Mom and the other cheerleaders are upset and dad starts teasing them. So mom kicks dad's football helmet out of his hands.

Dad decided a girl with that kind of spirit was worth checking out. They will celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary in August.

That's an awesome story, Canyon. Still weird to me that Sparenberg used to be its own school - all those people (all 20 or so of them) have gone to Klondike for the past 50 years or so. If you still have family in the area I'm sure I know them.

Last names of some of the Ackerly area families that I am related to: Brown, Skinner, Nichols, Houchin, Hunter.

I do remember some Nichols around my age over there. Never really knew anyone from Ackerly that well though - they were the enemy.

Wow, I shouldn't have read the comments at the end of that article.