Looking out the front door

[Don McDowell]

Been a very long day. Unloaded the 4 wheeler at 8 this morning, neighbor and I started gathering all of our cattle we could find we had sort of bunched up yesterday. 16 miles from the house.
Another neighbor and his kids had their saddle horses out gathering and sorting.
When I got home just a bit after dark tonite, the 4wheeler was out of gas, covered in mud, and the odometer had about 50 miles on it that it didn't have this morning. But we got the lions share of the cattle home, most in their owners pastures. Found 1 of our cows dead and had to leave a calf where we started from, hopefully she'll get calmed down, or at least Hugh and the boys will get her roped and loaded in a trailer to get her hauled closer to home.
Picked up 2 black bulls we have no idea who they belong to.
Take off again in the morning , go check my south cows and see if I can get a count, check the neighbors cows and water. To muddy to get a pickup into the pastures, and county road is to soft to try and trailer the saddle horses up.