Soapweed
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My journal entry for Friday, July 5, 1968
While we were waiting for Mom to get the lunch ready, Dad made the usual telephone call to Snyd. Lloyd and I straightened out the grill of our original IHC450 tractor.
The three of us left for the Leach Place and stopped in town to pick up Doug. When we arrived, the others got in the horses while I took the four-wheeler southwest about a mile to get the end-gate. Then I saddled Jig, and we loaded her onto the green pickup.
Leaving Doug and Lloyd to tear out old fences around the buildings, Dad and I each took a pickup to the Fuchser Place. There we unloaded Jig and caught Penny at the windmill in the horse pasture. We rode through the cattle and sorted out three club calves and their mothers, and two heavy cows (soon to have new calves). We saw two calves that needed to be doctored. We loaded the two heavies on the four wheeler and two cows with club calves on the other outfit, and went back to the Leach Place for a late lunch.
Dad and I took the cattle on home, and after a short nap started back. Bruce Weber was at the "Y" (fork in the road) out of gas in his pickup, so I took him home. Before I got there, he was contemplating trying to catch a loose mare in the pasture and riding her home bareback. It turned out the coil wire was off his pickup.
Back at the south place, Doug and I took junk to the dump. Dad and Lloyd went back to the Fuchser pasture to doctor the calves and get the other club calf and its mother. On the way back through town, Harvey Thayer was driving a team of saddle horses which were hooked to a real quaint chariot.
Mom and the girls went to the bookmobile this afternoon.
While we were waiting for Mom to get the lunch ready, Dad made the usual telephone call to Snyd. Lloyd and I straightened out the grill of our original IHC450 tractor.
The three of us left for the Leach Place and stopped in town to pick up Doug. When we arrived, the others got in the horses while I took the four-wheeler southwest about a mile to get the end-gate. Then I saddled Jig, and we loaded her onto the green pickup.
Leaving Doug and Lloyd to tear out old fences around the buildings, Dad and I each took a pickup to the Fuchser Place. There we unloaded Jig and caught Penny at the windmill in the horse pasture. We rode through the cattle and sorted out three club calves and their mothers, and two heavy cows (soon to have new calves). We saw two calves that needed to be doctored. We loaded the two heavies on the four wheeler and two cows with club calves on the other outfit, and went back to the Leach Place for a late lunch.
Dad and I took the cattle on home, and after a short nap started back. Bruce Weber was at the "Y" (fork in the road) out of gas in his pickup, so I took him home. Before I got there, he was contemplating trying to catch a loose mare in the pasture and riding her home bareback. It turned out the coil wire was off his pickup.
Back at the south place, Doug and I took junk to the dump. Dad and Lloyd went back to the Fuchser pasture to doctor the calves and get the other club calf and its mother. On the way back through town, Harvey Thayer was driving a team of saddle horses which were hooked to a real quaint chariot.
Mom and the girls went to the bookmobile this afternoon.