Feeding Cows
Very cold morning today with a little snow on the ground. Took me back to days in the 60s on the family ranch and feeding cattle on winter days. This was in the time before the big round hay bales of today. Would load up 10-15 bales of the old square bales on a pickup truck. Out to the pasture, call the cows with the truck horn http://pulltight.blogspot.com/2013/03/calling-cows-and-purple-haze.html Then throw the hay off the truck and walk around looking through and counting the cows and taking the wire off each bale of hay. Sometimes recall a story I heard many years ago about a colder and snowier day than today. Occurred somewhere in rural W Texas, near Amarillo as I remember. Was a really cold Sunday after a blizzard. One old rancher shows up early to the small country church, starts a fire in the wood stove and waits for the rest of the congregation and the preacher. The preacher living next door arrives and stands by the stove with the old rancher. ...