Easter Sunday in the Sandhills

[Soapweed]

My 87-year-old dad all set for the day. Peach and I picked up my dad, his wife, and my sister, and then we traveled about a hundred miles
to where Peach's sister and her husband ranch. We had dinner and a good visit, and then climbed to the top of Hackberry Hill
on the south side of the North Loup River for a look out across the surrounding countryside.

Spectacular Easter dinner

My dad's wonderful wife

Setting up for an automatic picture

It worked. Peach's sister is kneeling in the front row on the left. Her husband is the other fellow with a black hat,
and his parents are right in front of me. Peach's mother is third from the left.

Arriving at Hackberry Hill on a calorie cutting adventure

Heading for the top

View into the distance

No guardrails at this tourist attraction

I am procrastinating doing the long hard climb.

Through the briars and the brambles where a rabbit wouldn't go :wink:

Purt' near there

Looking down

View of the North Loup River

Looking northeast

Old 1949 survey marker on top of the hill

Looking to the west

Spaced out cadets in outer space

My dad, my sister, Soapweed, and Peach

Peach's nephew proposed to his bride on this very hill, four years ago at Easter time.

Dad and Sam

Peach's sister's husband and his dad are pointing out an old family homestead to my dad.

My bride and me

Going back down the hill

Happy couple

We had a fun and enjoyable day. Quite a few attended a nearby church service in the evening.

 

[Faster horses]

Great pictures, Soap. Thanks for sharing your day with us.
I especially like the last picture of you and Peach together.
That's a good 'un.

Your dad looks quite dapper and his wife looks like a sweet lady.

Brock and his bride must have been somewhere else, as I noticed they
weren't in the pictures. Neither was the bloodhound. :wink:

 

[gcreekrch]

Thanks Soapweed, where was your progeny?

 

[Soapweed]

Great pictures, Soap. Thanks for sharing your day with us.
I especially like the last picture of you and Peach together.
That's a good 'un.

Your dad looks quite dapper and his wife looks like a sweet lady.

Brock and his bride must have been somewhere else, as I noticed they
weren't in the pictures. Neither was the bloodhound. :wink:

Somebody had to hold down the fort and calve out cows. They got Saturday off for an excursion to Rapid City. :wink:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Didja at least take a sandwich out to the hard workin couple? Cuz I don't see em at the dinner table either :wink:

 

[Blkbuckaroo]

Good pics,no kids?

 

[burnt]

Waddya mean old1949 survet marker . . .? '49 ain't THAT old anymore, is it? :wink:

 

[Shortgrass]

Pretty country. Quite a view. Someday if'n I get up there again, I'll have to take me there.

 

[Northern Rancher]

I just showed Ty an old corner mound out in the bush-I don't know how they surveyed through all that thick bush-those guys must of been made of stern stuff-there was no DEET back then and I'm sure there were mosquitoes.

 

[rees]

Soapweed how far is hackberry hill from your place? I had some cows on the north loup a couple years ago but it was the opposite end of cherry county from you. I enjoy your pictures by the way.

 

[Soapweed]

Soapweed how far is hackberry hill from your place? I had some cows on the north loup a couple years ago but it was the opposite end of cherry county from you. I enjoy your pictures by the way.

Hackberry Hill is about a hundred miles from our ranch, on land owned by Peach's sister and her husband, and his folks. I apologize for not being more explicit with the picture captions, and have edited the post accordingly. Thanks for bearing with me.

 

[rees]

That's ok Soapweed I just figured you to be a ways from the north loup. We had cows west of purdum and I knew that was a good distance from you. That's pretty country thanks for posting the pictures.