Soapweed
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This is normally a shallow lake. Now it's a dried up old lake bed.

Two-year-old cows and their calves

It looked like a heifer calf in the last picture, but it's a steer.

A couple of my little friends

Blink

Grandma has assistant drivers.

Ducks

Calf fries and scrambled eggs for supper

This should put some hair on the chests of these young men.

Trailing heifers home from where they spent the summer

I am her accomplice.

Forty and found. This normally means forty dollars a month plus room and board. In this case it means that the forty head were all found.

The old guy along for the ride. Unfortunately, his ash does make him look fat.


Nice day for the ride

Down the trail

Cool clear Sandhills water

The only way to move cattle fast is to move them slow.

We traded steeds along the way just for something to do.

Show me the way to go home.

We arrived at our destination.

Had a nice visit with this gentleman at the sale barn. Ray Hunter is his name, and he wrote a very interesting book about his life of being a cowboy.
The book is entitled DIM TRAILS, and I'd highly recommend it. For more information, here is a link.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_0d9cfd66-42e1-11e0-857b-001cc4c03286.html

A dead porcupine is a good porcupine.