Hereford76
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I had one heck of nice couple of days. Friday morning loaded up the trailer with a load of cull cows to go over to Bear Paw Livestock in chinook. i turned off highway 2 to the stockyards and saw one of my best friends that i hadn't seen in a few years rolling out of there in their big old fancy truck and ended up meeting back at the stockyards. then a couple of other old friends showed up while we were visiting and it just happened to be one of the guys' birthdays so we thought maybe we'd just make a day of hanging out together. All four of us ended up helping ken overcast move his cows off the milk back up north of chinook on battle creek about 7 miles south of the canadian line to one of the friends place that was leasing the cows (lance). we had a good time dinking around with the cows and reminiscing all day and it got dark so lance invited us in for dinner and his birthday party with his wife and 6 kids. it was the neatest thing. those kids didn't have a tv only vcr and lived 30 miles from nowhere and were the most well behaved little guys i have ever seen. we sat down at the table and the kids took turns sitting on daddy's lap cause that was the highlight of their day - it about made me cry. they all handed him home made birthday presents all taped up so tight he had to cut them open with his pocket knife. it was awesome. his oldest daughter Faith was one of the neatest young ladies I have ever met. she ran the kitchen that night and it reminded me so much of how families were when i was a kid. anyhow - her dad lance is one of the best fiddlers i've ever heard but i think his daughter faith is going to be pretty special. before we left she gave me a signed copy of her cd album... her very first one and she is 11 years old. ken overcast helped her put it together and it is pretty darn cool. she performs every now and then so if you ever get a chance to see her - do it. i wish you guys could hear it - maybe i'll see if ken can put it up on his website. anyhow - i ended up spending the night just out of chinook with these four guys - all of us married with a wife and kids at home, telling stories, laughing, and listening to lance play until the sun came up. it was great.