My journal entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1968
I tiredly pulled myself out of bed at 6:30. We had breakfast and then I worked a little on back pages of this diary, until the lunch was ready so we could head for the Leach Place.
Dad stopped in town to make a few phone calls (our phone line is out of order), so the rest of us went south in the four-wheeler.
Doug and I strung some wire, and then helped Lloyd tear down the Myers corrals for most of the morning. Dad was late arriving, as the pickup conked out just south of the JO turn-off. Aunt Joy took him home, and he got our car. He made it to the Leach Place about 11:00, and we lined out a fence south of the west meadow until noon.
Dad had to go to a special REA (Rural Electrification Association) election (Elmer Solid versus Ken Wagner, with Wagner winning), so the rest of us worked on the new fence. We dug holes, set posts, and put in dead men, but didn’t do any stretching. Then we tore out more old corrals.
Ed Leach and Keith Gardner were down to get some old windmill parts, so we visited with them for a bit.
We got in the horses. I caught Sassy and hauled her home for Boltz’s branding. After Leander Creek, the pickup acted up all the way home (probably the fuel pump).
I unloaded Sassy and we did chores. Dad and the girls were checking phone line, and the pickup stalled out completely.
I gave Nancy Jean a ride on Sassy.