Great photo's Cal. Thanks for sharing. I'm reminded of a school teacher/cattle story. Good luck on getting in a great harvest. Mostly done in the Midland area, I believe. My only comment on the 'horses' is that the photo's show you handle the cattle properly with them. SOME people who use horses chouse* the cattle just as badly as SOME who use metal 'horses' do.
Some years ago, a then former teacher told me of living next to a pasture while she and her spouse were teaching in a rural community. She went out ot hang the laundry and the cattle stood there watching her intently. It made her feel spooked to the point she went inside, called her husband and asked him why the watched her. He was able to explain, probably none too kindly, that cattle are curious about what they see. She never got accustomed to it. Some things we who live around animals take for granted do seem strange to others, it seems.
*Looked up the word to see if it should be spelled 'chowse' and found the no such spelling. The word 'chouse' means a swindler or cheat. And I have heard the old cowboys from the Jones and Berry ranches use it to describe someone who incorrectly chases cattle wildly, moving them on the run, or pushing them too hard in the working pens, making handling them harder than it should be and resulting in spoiled, wild, poor doing cattle.
mrj
