School Bus Stop – Rurality Blog Hop #5

School children wait in all kinds of weather for the school bus to arrive, pick them up and deliver them safely to school.

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Here, along a rural gravel road southeast of the Whitman County seat of Colfax and southeast of Moscow, I’D on Eidson Road ,

a creative wheat farmer re-purposes a combine cab.

As the old saying goes, ‘Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without,’

and the farmer has done just that,

taking the cab from a combine that no longer ran

and placing it at the top of their very steep,

long gravel driveway for his children to use as a school bus shelter.

Inside this combine cab, the children would have a place to wait out of the cold,

rain and snow during the late fall, winter and early spring months.

While there is no seat, it certainly is a ‘room’ with a view

and they would be able to see the bus coming,

with only a few steps from it to their bus door.

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Here in the Palouse, I’ve followed several school bus drivers along their routes

on these rural gravel roads and I must say I admire their skills.

Yes, driving a 40′ school bus in the city is challenging,

I know, I’ve done that for 14 years,

with all the heavy traffic and at times weather does give us a good slam.

But my counterparts in rural counties,

also have to face slick mud, snow and ice on roads

that go without any maintenance in the way of

ice and snow removal in bad weather.

All of their buses that I’ve seen do have automatic chains though,

that’s a blessing!

To them I tip my hat!

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‘RURALITY BLOG HOP’ #5

It’s time for you to enter your photos in ‘Rurality Blog Hop – #5.’ ‘Rurality Blog Hop’ is open to everyone. Post something about rural life and and share it with us! The linky will open every Wednesday morning around 09:00 Pacific Time and will close Thursday at midnight.

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