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leanin' H

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We are headed for the ranch in the mornin' to work on the fence some more. Been busy butchering meat chickens and tying up loose ends around the place here. Thought i'd post some pictures of the last trip fencing. Our little guy has got potty trained this summer and when ya gotta go, well, ya gotta go! Here goes littlest H back to the truck after one such pit stop! Little cowboys are pretty cute! This one is runnin' through Horse Valley on the way to the ranch. :D
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Looking north at Lightning Ridge in Horse Valley. The Famous, for Utah anyway, McIntire Ranch had what they called the Summer Ranch headquarters near here. The ranch belongs to Frank Vincent nowadays.
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Here's one of my project. The strain brace is about at the one mile mark of a mile and a half fence. It's coming along. I've shed 17 pounds thanks to this fence this summer!
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The Leanin' H weight loss program! It involves a shovel, a bar, lots of boulders, tee-posts, a chainsaw, cedar posts and a couple bad words! :shock:
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This old Sage brush is taller than me! Most doesn't get that tall, but if it's undisturbed in a bottom near water it gets taller.
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My Great, Great Uncle settled the ranch where I've been fencing in the late 1860's. They buried two kids on the ranch and we weren't sure where. My Mom could remember riding with her Dad and him pointing out the spot. The graves were marked with a large rock at the head and foot. They got off thier horses and piled more rocks around them to better mark them. Then they got lost again in the cedars and brush. We found them while on the trip. Not much of a monument, but atleast we know where they lay. I'm thinking a little fence and monument may be in the works.
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The pictures don't show very well, but this is them. My sweet wife found em' while i was fencing. Our family is sure happy to know where they are.
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Henry's Cabin was under that big old black willow tree. I'm sure they could see the spot where they buried two of thier children from the house. Hope it brought them a small measure of peace. Hope they know we haven't forgot any of them and are amazed at the life they scratched out of the desert. Hope we honor them in how we follow in thier boot tracks! :D
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Looking out toward the ranch and barn. 5 generations have watched sunsets from this ground. 6 counting my kids! Hope your own roots run this deep!
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Part of the old stable and corral above the cabin.
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The old black willow tree's planted by our ancestors have grow into lots of shade. The homestead cabin sat just to the right of where my bunch is sitting. Bet ya the tree's were quite a bit smaller back then.
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And a fawn a peekin' at me through the rabbit brush and sage. Hope ya liked what ya saw! :wink: :D
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the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Now if it were me.....there'd be some refurbishing of the old cabin goin on. How can ya not fix it up? It'd be a great weekend spot to take the kids and wife.....

Loved the pictures. Glad you found the gravesites. And I think a small fence around them would be appropriete.
 

RSL

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That's pretty cool and hits pretty close to home. We are the 5th generation (kids the 6th), are potty training at the moment, and have lost a child.
Scary with how different people figure they are, how close the circle of life really rolls...
 

Soapweed

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Great picture story, leanin' H. You come from tough stock since they were able to survive the conditions they lived through. What a wonderful heritage you have.

A book you might enjoy reading is entitled THE OREGON DESERT, by E.R. Jackman and R.A. Long, originally printed by The "CAXTON PRINTERS, Ltd. of Caldwell, Idaho. The book I am presently reading was of the thirteenth printing, done in 1992. About the authors:

"Reub Long was a lifetime cowboy whose curiosity about the things around him was insatiable. He managed to accumulate some thousands of acres of desert range where he ran beautiful horses and raised Hereford cattle. He lived on the desert all his life, taking the cold, the wind, and the pitiless summer sun, and giving back gentleness and understanding. He was known to thousands as a desert philosopher with wit and wisdom far beyond most of us.

"E.R. Jackman probably knew more people than any other person in Oregon. One can't get so far back on any country road that Jackman hadn't been there. He spent his mature life with the Extension Service of Oregon State University, working unceasingly to stop erosion, to make the fields better, and to create more wealth in Oregon.

"Both preached the gospel of grass. Their pulpits were the great reaches of the wild grasslands of the West, and their audiences extended far beyond the borders of their state.

"So Reub Long was a cowboy who thought like a scientist and Jackman was a scientist who thought like a cowboy. They were close friends for many years and this book is an outgrowth of their mutual liking for the desert."

Anyway, it is a very intersting book that I think anyone would enjoy.
 

gcreekrch

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Thanks H, you gonna be done by Monday or will you have a weekend job for a bit?

How long before deer baling season? That photo of Half Pint H brought back a lot of memories..
 

Cal

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Thanks for posting! Looks like quite the fencing project. When our boy was potty training he used to think it was fun to "water on the dog". :lol: Good thing it wasn't a house dog.
 

leanin' H

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per said:
Enjoyed the essay as usual. Why plant the cedar post and not just use t bars except for the brace?

Well Per I'd love to tell ya some amazing desert fact that would make ya just go WOW! But I build fence like that cause thats how my Dad taught me! :wink: A nice stout cedar after every five steel makes a good fence. The cedar posts in this dry country last a long time. I've torn out 50 year old posts that only had lost an inch on the butt ends to rot. Fire is tough on them but usually destroys fences anyway thanks to the heat on the wire. And digging post holes with a shovel and a bar in these granite ridges builds character! :wink: It also builds blisters followed by calluses followed by hand cramps followed by a greater desire to find an electrical job! :D

RSL, Sure sorry about your child. Hope you are able to share your grief with the Lord. Sorry if I knocked off a scab that can't be healed. I bet your right about how closely we ALL are interconnected. The only bad thing about just knowing folks like you thanks to Ranchers.net, is I'd love to meet all of ya in person and really believe most of us would be great friends! Not that ya'll aren't counted as my friends now! :wink:
 

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