Wednesday in Montana

After a great night's sleep we woke, ATV'd down to Jody's house for breakfast of quiche, grapes, juice, homemade toast with huckleberry jam, and lots of conversation. Mom, Dad, and Scott are heading for the Little Big Horn memorial, etc., and Valerie, Hannah and I are going to trailer our horses over to "the cabin", a private place a few miles down the road. We'll be riding around and touring for a few hours. Jody's packed us a lunch so we don't have to rush back "home". Maybe it'll stay clear and not too hot today as it has been so far. What a wonderful place to be!

Yesterday after supper we went to the arena and took turns cutting cattle one or two at a time. Toby and Hank checked them for pink eye and cut the ones who had it out, so they could be treated. The others we all herded about a half mile down the road to another pasture. But at one point the fence ran out along the left side of the road and the head animal headed up the driveway to our guest house. So we had about 10 cattle grazing near the van and along the driveway that we had to drive out of that area and back onto the road. It was funny after it was all over but very nerve-wracking until then because we had to herd them along a cliff of rimrock. Scary. We thought we'd get in trouble for that.

The parents and Scott came back around 4:30 from Little Big Horn and told us all about it.