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This is the last project Warren and I worked on together. As some of you know I'm leaving the ranch for a new job in Michigan. I still hope to keep updating this every now and then, so please stop by again.

God Bless.

Another Drive.... Cattle Drive that is.

Starting out, before the sun came up.



These miserable girls keep coming back about 8 miles. They just don't get the hint that we want them to stay away from here.

My 2 buddies.
Wilson and Wrangler.

Norm in the distance.

White House Flat.

White House Flat.
Someone got offended a while ago about the White part of it. So now the Forest Service calls it Ambrose Vally. But we still call it White House.

Wilson getting them up.

Now Wrangler is getting them up.

Pushing the cows to the middle of the flat to the meeting point, to push them further up the mountain.

Wrangler getting a hold. You should see him work. Wrangler likes to fight the cows when they're facing him and bellering, and Little Wilson likes to bight the heels.

At the meeting point getting ready for the big push.

The other morning when there was just a little bit of smoke in the air. Now there's a lot of fires close to us, and a ton of smoke in the air. I can't see 2 mile away sometimes.

"Who in Samhill?"

"Who in samhill was it said how the cowboy's life was so grand and glorious?"

"I don't know, but I think it was the same feller who said something about beautiful snow."

"Well, whoever it was has never pulled bog and never rode in wet snow."

This kind of talk was going on between 'em. One was on his horse at one end of the rope and the other, the loop end in his hand, was knee deep in sucking slushy black mud trying to find the horns of a cow that had bogged down.

He wanted to put his loop end of the rope around them horns. the cow had been fighting in trying to get our after having her drink, and the suckin mud had got her deeper as she fought, till only about half of her body showed. The cow being on the "prod" as they usually are when bogged down that was had fought with the result that she got on her side, throwed her head until, in her struggling, she'd throwed it back and there she layed breathing hard, both her horns stuck deep in the mud.

There wasn't a part of her showed where a loop could be throwed so it would catch a hold. So there was nothing to do but for one of the cowboys to was in the mud, get her horns and place the loop around 'em. Then as her head was straightened and she struggled some more to get at the cowboy who was near her, the other cowboy on the bank pulled with his horse, and all together she was soon brought to solid ground, there to show her gratitude only by trying to hook the men and horse that had saved her life.

But that's the nature of the range critter and the cowboys didn't pay much attention to that, there'd been such doings all day long.

Written by "Will James" in one of his books, "Home Ranch".

If your looking for a good book to read get his book "Smoky the Cow Horse", but make sure you ask for one of his books with his drawings in it.

Sod Bustin.

Just sitting in the swather all day I start making faces at my self for entertainment.... That's just sad.
Can you tell the differences between the first and the....

...Second cutting?

Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 13:21

Home Ranch Pictures.

Home ranch security and Fats and Stupid.... oops... "Black Jack" in the back, and our ranches brand up top.
Wrangler was having so much fun, and the horses could not quite figure how that was so entertaining.



Leroy's profile.



There new album is now out with songs like "Don't Fence me in", and "Hooked on an 8 Second Ride", and your favorite "Mary had a little Lamb".




Wrangler with a thunder storm heading our way.

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him,and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise Him.

Psalm 28:7

Taylor S's Visit, Part 2.

Some people don't know what a rock jack is.... Now you know.

Taylor came for a visit, and we put him to work with us building a fence up on the side of the mountain. Taylor only got to do that one day, but that whole thing is about a mile and a half long.

The first day I was up there we got to see and big Military C141 plain fly right by us on the side of the hill just 100 yards off. I don't know how to tell you about it, but I'll NEVER forget that.

We got all the wheel lines up and running.

Taylor got to help drag our fields while he was here. That's such a drag.

Mt. Shasta. in the morning.

Don't just look at the sunrise, look at ME. Number one oh my me my.

Taylor would take pictures sometimes without me knowing....

He did a good job sometimes...

But not on this one.

Our replacement heifers

Wide open spaces, I could do with out the fence tho.

Riding in to the West.