Just a bit of life on a ranch in Northwest Iowa.

March 2, 2008 6:17 PM

Another Sunday has been laid to waste.  The entirety of my day consisted of feeding bulls and a couple hundred head of horses with a painfully small feed-wagon, then feeding an assortment of cows, colts, calves, and more bulls with five gallon buckets, then running into town for stove pipe cement at Bomgaars (a farm supply store) then getting groceries and getting other various supplies, then coming home, eating napping, doing night chores, sealing my stove pipes, and now here I am writing in my journal while smoking a Pall Mall cigarette and sipping on a glass of Amoretto.  (A very rare self-indulgence, hope the woman doesn’t find out.)

And that is how one goes about wasting an early March Sunday.  But one has to be  careful not to get too much accomplished.  This is my only time off all week.

During the week I’ve been thinking about Bill.  All the while I’ve been moping about the ranch with my complaints, I have a fellow worker in my midsts who really has something to complain about.

One time, while making small talk while fixing a fence or sorting horses, (I forget which) he related to me that he doesn’t plan to live past the age of thirty.  

“Why do you think that?” I asked.

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  • R J Grant on Nov 11, 2008

    Poor Bill. He might just live to 90 and then where would he be?

    Grant

  • Schaller on Nov 12, 2008

    Bill does what Bill wants to do. What he wants to do is what he loves. He isnt concerned about the doctors too much right now. He was always hell bent for election but after the bad news he seems to have just accepted it after a while. I secretly think he is just looking for a place to die. He loves the ranch for whatever reason and I don’t think he is going to leave it for quite some time.

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