Shortgrass said:
Hi Soapweed--Enjoy your pictures. Takes me back a few(to put it mildly)years. I worked in the Sandhills for a man named MgGiness or something similiar to that under a manager named Lininbrink near Merriman. Went to a Methodist Church there and a lady gave me a 3 piece suit that had belonged to her deceased husband--I'll bet she was some kin of yours. Understand your love of the sandhills--finest cow country God made out of doors. I have a place east of Pikes Peak on the prarie. Raise commercial Charolais. Left face & Right face caught my attention. I like cattle pictures. You seem to be well mounted most of the time.
It would have been the McGinley Ranch where you worked. Vince Linenbrink was running the northeast part of that place, and I'm guessing that is where you were living. Ted Turner owns that ranch now, and it is stocked with buffalo. Jess McGinley and his wife, Doris, have both passed on, and so has Vince. Vince's wife, Betty, lives to the northeast of us about fifteen miles.
The Methodist church where you attended is the one I grew up going to. It was started well over a hundred years ago, and my great-grandparents were some of the charter members. The church ran out of constituents a few years ago, and now exists in building form only. We go to the Victory Bible Church, which meets in the old VFW building and has services on Sunday evenings.
Time seems to march right along.