Soapweed
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My journal entry for Sunday, November 24, 1968
We slept a little late as it was Sunday. Dad pulled me out of bed at 7:00, and we did chores before breakfast. We got the bulls in with the pickup, and then I grained them while Dad fed the bucket calf and took care of the horse.
Mom fixed poached eggs, toast, and "Canadian bacon" for breakfast. Dad washed off our new patio, hung up my rope board in the saddle room, and did some other odd jobs. I rode Hawk Eye through both bunches of calves in the Home Meadow. One was a little droop-eared. About a dozen calves were out in Boltz's bales so I got them back in where they belong. I didn't worry about it too much as the bad fence is theirs to fix.
Mom and the girls went to Sunday School, and Dad and I went in later to church. We got home just before 1:00 and then had dinner.
Dad, Sandra, Sybil, and I went to the horse sale in Martin. Jim Allison sold 20 Quarter Horses and there were about 50 head in the grade sale afterwards. The registered horses probably averaged $225 and the grades $125. We didn't get any horses, but got more than $200 worth of tack and equipment. Sybil got a new saddle for $107.50 after Dad jewed the guy down. We also got two Navajo saddle blankets, three lariats, three bridles, a pair of chaps for Sandra, 5 whips, 2 halters, 3 lead ropes, 3 pair of reins, etc.
On the way home, we stopped at the JL Ranch (Joy Fairhead's) for about ten minutes. Dad and I did chores when we got home and then had supper. We took Christmas card photographs until 9:30, down in the new saddle room. I don't believe any of us will ever be movie stars, unless maybe Nancy Jean.
We slept a little late as it was Sunday. Dad pulled me out of bed at 7:00, and we did chores before breakfast. We got the bulls in with the pickup, and then I grained them while Dad fed the bucket calf and took care of the horse.
Mom fixed poached eggs, toast, and "Canadian bacon" for breakfast. Dad washed off our new patio, hung up my rope board in the saddle room, and did some other odd jobs. I rode Hawk Eye through both bunches of calves in the Home Meadow. One was a little droop-eared. About a dozen calves were out in Boltz's bales so I got them back in where they belong. I didn't worry about it too much as the bad fence is theirs to fix.
Mom and the girls went to Sunday School, and Dad and I went in later to church. We got home just before 1:00 and then had dinner.
Dad, Sandra, Sybil, and I went to the horse sale in Martin. Jim Allison sold 20 Quarter Horses and there were about 50 head in the grade sale afterwards. The registered horses probably averaged $225 and the grades $125. We didn't get any horses, but got more than $200 worth of tack and equipment. Sybil got a new saddle for $107.50 after Dad jewed the guy down. We also got two Navajo saddle blankets, three lariats, three bridles, a pair of chaps for Sandra, 5 whips, 2 halters, 3 lead ropes, 3 pair of reins, etc.
On the way home, we stopped at the JL Ranch (Joy Fairhead's) for about ten minutes. Dad and I did chores when we got home and then had supper. We took Christmas card photographs until 9:30, down in the new saddle room. I don't believe any of us will ever be movie stars, unless maybe Nancy Jean.