Miscellaneous cattle pictures from this past week

[Soapweed]

Red cattle

December Hereford "graft calf" sucking a black momma

Three yearling heifers

Yearling heifers and one of their male consorts

A pretty good baldy calf

Typical ranch pickup seen on Main Street

Taking life easy

Some of the boys

Cattle on a hillside

The fragile Sandhills

Rose petals

Pasture picture

My sturdy steed

Horse on a hill

Evidence of a hard ride on a hot afternoon

Picturesque post in the pasture

Windmill at sundown

[varmint]

Where can I get one of the fence pliers holsters that you have on your saddle in the picture?
I have been trying to find one for a long time and just saw your picture.
Thanks,
Larry in Texas

[Soapweed]

[varmint]

I spoke with Liz and its already ordered
Thanks again, I really enjoy your posts & pictures, all we have here is flooded pasture with cows on the high ground.

[Jerry H]

[varmint]

I do believe that you are right! I have heard that too. 99% of my riding is on our land and neighbors place, we have 500 acres combined and I am a fence "nut" constantly looking for damage or down fences, some of the wire is very old with spur rowel barbs. I always seem to have lots of help to repair the fences but they never seem to show up. I wind up just shooting at varmints from my horse more than anything else.
Larry

[DJL]

Why on earth would it be illegal to carry fencing pliers on your saddle in Texas?

Larry if you have spur rowel barbed wire, you could make good money selling chunks of it on e-bay or elsewhere, and pay for all new wire fence. Collectors will pay silly amounts for something they desire.

[Jerry H]

hey larry
glad to hear you already new that about the pliers
i had to find out the hard way but at least it didn't cost me anything
i see you are from greenville
i worked alot around when i was growing up
from sulfer springs to paris,shearman back down to wylie where i spent my childhood
shoot we might know each other or have at least met
until later
jerry

[Jerry H]

hello djl
i think it has somthing to with texas being a fence in state
rather the way most of the rest of cow country is a fence out state with openrange laws
if i'm wrong someone please correct me as i'm not 100% possitive

i'm pretty shure it's one of those old laws from back in the days of the range wars over the wire when folks were killing each other over it

there's lots of those old laws still on the books that folks don't know about
if i remember right it was still ok to hang horse theives here in texas until 1982

until later
jerry

[varmint]

I used to think that its just one of those old laws still on the books. I'm sure that a runnin iron would be illegal too if the pliers are.
I will cut a piece of the wire and take a picture of it and post it. Its very brittle. I have really been thinking of listing some items on Ebay, what kind of price should I put on it to start? I have also found some old iron stirrups while checkin fence, and an old wooden pulley hanging in a tree by wire, real high up.

[Tap]

Your country looks good Soapweed. Glad you are having fun while getting things done. I bet Cal doesn't have as much fun as you seem to while working. Sorry Cal, couldn't resist. lol

I like your pasture picture the best. A lot of us would have rode right by and not found the beautiful picture you captured there.

[varmint]

This is my 2-1/2 YO QH mare last August in the Ark mountains[/img]

We went to the Nat Finals Chuck Wagon Races