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We have the best neighbors!
Jamie, Leesa, Mya,
Jacob and Sidney Martin live across the road. Jamie works
for UPS and often personally delivers our packages with care on
days when he isn't driving a route. Which he did this
morning, Monday August 4th. We've been very blessed with our
"neighborhood." We like to tell folks about all our great
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Art Bryant and Tom
Greer of Richland, Missouri
Art
drove over with Tom Greer, Sunday afternoon, August 3rd.
Art was picking up Pudge and Lucy. Tom was dropping
off Snip. They got held up for an hour on I-44
construction there at Joplin. If you're headed that
way, allow extra time.
They
came bearing gifts from Art and Nancy's garden. Yummmm....cucumbers,
tomatoes and peppers. Literally speaking, we are in
hog heaven! |
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Above -
Getting Snip settled in. Below Art (left) and Tom
(right)
watching the
dogs work. Pudge just finished. Lucy heading
one. |
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Craig County Fair Ranch
Rodeo Pictures
Click Here!
What a
terrific time it was. The key word here is T-E-A-M.
The digital camera didn't get very good pictures, so there's a
lot of blur, but you'll be able to experience how "fast" things
were moving and notice that teamwork outweighed everything else.
As we've mentioned before, the best part of the ranch rodeos is
that they are pure family!
We have to
mention our experience afterwards with a tailpipe that decided
to crack. The noise was deafening when Ben fired up the
old Buick after the rodeo. We made it the half mile or so
to the Wal-Mart parking lot. A family who didn't know us
drove up to see if we needed assistance. Ben told them a
little wire would take care of things until we got home, but
they didn't have any. We thanked them and told them we'd
be fine. Not 5 minutes later it seemed they were back with
a piece of wire. What struck us was not only did this
family offer help, they meant it! |
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Ben's Kate helps him
get these calves to the alleyway to load. |
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Thursday, July 31 is a busy
day!
Ben was
off to the Welch sale with 6 head of steers. Max Nidiffer,
our neighbor, stopped by with his Haflingers and wagon. He
took Leslie for a fun drive. This nice pair of coming 5
year old geldings, harnesses and the great wagon Max built, are
for sale since Max and Ruth will be moving to town. While
we'd love to have this nice broke team (Max has been driving
horses forever), we can't quite see that we'd use them enough.
Sorry we didn't get pictures but the camera was charging for the
ranch rodeo that's tonight at the fairgrounds!
If anyone is
interested in Max's team, let us know and we'll be happy to
furnish you with his phone number. |
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Click here to
see dogs and who's stopped by lately! |
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