Soapweed
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My journal entry for Wednesday, June 26, 1968
Right after breakfast, I put Sybil's saddle on the pickup [cinched it to the stockrack] and filled the outfit with gas. We had to mess around the machine shed for a while until Mom had our lunch ready.
We four "regulars" and Sybil left for the Leach Place. Upon our arrival, we got in the horses. Dad and Sybil loaded Penny and went on to the Fuchser place. They checked the cattle, but didn't have to move them.
Lloyd tore out some rickety fence behind the Webster barn, and Doug and I finished up some new fence. We went over west of the Myers buildings and had to set a few posts and do some stapling.
Dad and Sybil got back at 11:30, so we had an early dinner. We ate on the steps of the old house and about froze out.
I saddled Jig and Ribbon and then Sybil and I took off riding. We moved the purebreds from north of the place to the southeast pasture. A couple of Annett's yearling heifers were with the bunch, and these gave us some trouble. One calf was blind from pink-eye, so we had to leave him. (Dad hauled him over in the pickup later.) Also two calves were on the wrong side of a fence, so we had to get them back.
When this job was done, we joined the fencing crew who were working immediately east of the Webster barn. We quit at 6:30 and came home.
Tostengards sent us a newspaper from the Tracy, Minnesota tornado. After chores and supper, I read this.
Right after breakfast, I put Sybil's saddle on the pickup [cinched it to the stockrack] and filled the outfit with gas. We had to mess around the machine shed for a while until Mom had our lunch ready.
We four "regulars" and Sybil left for the Leach Place. Upon our arrival, we got in the horses. Dad and Sybil loaded Penny and went on to the Fuchser place. They checked the cattle, but didn't have to move them.
Lloyd tore out some rickety fence behind the Webster barn, and Doug and I finished up some new fence. We went over west of the Myers buildings and had to set a few posts and do some stapling.
Dad and Sybil got back at 11:30, so we had an early dinner. We ate on the steps of the old house and about froze out.
I saddled Jig and Ribbon and then Sybil and I took off riding. We moved the purebreds from north of the place to the southeast pasture. A couple of Annett's yearling heifers were with the bunch, and these gave us some trouble. One calf was blind from pink-eye, so we had to leave him. (Dad hauled him over in the pickup later.) Also two calves were on the wrong side of a fence, so we had to get them back.
When this job was done, we joined the fencing crew who were working immediately east of the Webster barn. We quit at 6:30 and came home.
Tostengards sent us a newspaper from the Tracy, Minnesota tornado. After chores and supper, I read this.