Day 4..back riding south of the cutting grounds

Early morning gather near the Steele reservoir..

Somebody's piled rocks above Harry Steele's place..

The last of the stuff heading for the underpass.

Everyone heading for the horse trailers.  Front is Jill and Gary, ex Box R dudes who came to ride the drift with Prices, and Charles and Kent Price.  Bob's up on top with others..Madeleine's crew and Albert's crew. This turned into a short day.  We rode out of the cutting grounds at 5:00 a.m. and were back there at 9:00 a.m.  We back rode and gathered stuff that was scattered...really scattered in those hills south of the cutting grounds.  Bob was on foot digging yearlings out of those steep hills over Harry Steele's place.  Charles and Kent were down in the bottom heading them up the fence when Bob got them out of there.  Kind of a dicey  little place.  I was important up on top, holding Bob's horse.  :)

2nd Day Clearing the Mesa & Down the Hennick Draw

A few we gathered early..

They strung down the Hennick about 7:00 a.m.

The holding herd/mothering up wasn't too tough.  This is the two Phil Selbeys...Old Phil was riding a pony that had sort of gotten out of hand.  That pony had a work out today...Young Phil was trying to make his dad look shorter.  The pony is down in a cow trail!  Note: their dogs are awesome. 

Kathy Whipley (I think..Charm correct me on her name.)  We had the best visit.

Molly Huffman Landers, Tom Colerick, and Coke Landers..

Some Koreans are doing a documentary on food.  They are filming the drift..cattle only mind you...not the least interested in the cowboys..or the heritage.  Jamie Burges flew them over the gather and drive all morning.  On Ann Noble's fb, she posted pictures of them...filming them eating in the dinning room.

This would be me, Michael and Palmer!  Bob, Charles and Kent had ridden back to get the truck and trailer, and try to load a steer that was in the corral at cow camp.  Apparently that didn't go too well, as Charles brought him down horseback.  The rest of the drive went amazingly easily..except for one little horse wreck.  My horse fell, and stepped on my arm getting up.  It isn't broken, but it matches the other on in color.  It's sore this afternoon, but doable..

Day 1 Clearing the Mesa

Bob looking out across the south end..

A few hours later ariving at the Middle Mesa (our old cow camp) well.

Palmer's new saddle that Michael made for him.

Bob and Palmer
We were home, unsaddled at noon straight up.  We left here at ten after four a.m.  I'm about to hit the couch for an hour.

Clearing the Soap Hole

 

 

Some calves just won't cross this tiny little creek..so they get dragged.

Sue in Sommer's meadow..with reflections behind her.  The move wasn't too bad until we got to the land..then it was almost impossible.  We almost lost the calves to a huge run back..but by the grace of God it didn't quite happen.  We were horseback in the Soap Hole before six and done sorting after two.  Home after three.  I'm dragging.  After lunch, Bob's is out on the two ditches.  If he's up to it tonight, we'll fly looking for the cows.  We'll meet Charles at 20 til 4:00 tomorrow morning.  Brutal.  We'll trailer down to the lower end of the Mesa, gather and push, probably to the Middle Mesa tank..which is the cow camp on top. It won't be as long a day as today..just earlier.  :)

The tail end crossing Sommer's bridge.

Tuesday

I picked up Nancy and Tana at Betty and Brent's early this morning.  We got groceries, and went home to put them away.  Then we went to the Museum.  Later we went to Fremont Lake and hung out at Sandy Beach.  We were to meet Betty and Sara at Half Moon Lake for lunch.  We drove up Skyline and glassed to see the guys out fishing.  We met up with Betty and Sara, drove to the lodge only to find out they weren't open.  Turned out Jennie and her mom Sherry were coming too.  We went to Fremont Lake and sat on the deck.  We got rained in..but still had a neat lunch.

After lunch the Eberhardt gals and I drove up to Little Half Moon Lake.  The flowers were gorgeous as was the lake.

Love this of Tana.

The dogs had a lot of fun swimming in the lake.

We were only home a short time, when Betty called about hot dogs at Willow Lake.  So Bob hurried with his ditch, and we went up there.

Bob, Brent, Thad and Brent.

Kizzie with big wishes.

A storm blew in and the waves were beautiful.

 

S'mores...Yummmmm!!!

Scott and Sara's wonderful wedding!

We drove out to Amerine's early for family pictures.

Bob shot a few with my camera while the official ones were being taken.

 

Including this shot with my good looking grandson!

This is during the ceremony, which was unique and perfect!

After their ceremony, the wedding party boarded John Wayne's wagon and they left for about an hour ride with champagne to drink and toasts to make.

Meanwhile we still did some photo shoots.  This is your's truly with my beautiful granddaughter.

This is the wedding party arriving..I love this picture!

Couple of neat cowboys standing around...Bob, Rocky and Mart!

There was no way to photograph the crowd..and even guess how many people were there.

 

 

 

Jason did the groom's toast, of course, and presented Scott with this blanket.  He knew he had to reach to out do the toast Scott did at his wedding in 2010.

The band was from Laramie..Scott went to school with them at UW.

Betty and Carol remembering Betty and Brent's wedding...

 

And I just love this photo!