Day 3 - Wednesday May 30

[SD] Fixing Fences 2007-05-30

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Today I got up early and went for a 4 mile run. The cows just stared at me as I ran by them. I don't think they had ever seen a person running down the road. They just shook their heads and stared. Then we loaded up the 4 wheeler and went up to the Black Hills forest area. It was about a twenty mile ride.
We first built a electric fence in a area that will hold the cattle tomorrow evening before we get them up to the allotment. We finished this project by 10:30 am.

I then drove a 4 wheeler 5 miles down the road to the area where we will water the cows before we reach the final destination. We ate lunch here.

Then we checked the fence around the National Forest area. We road the 4 wheelers by about 10 miles of fence. There is over 30 miles of fence to check. It was fun riding the 4 wheelers up and down the hills. The weather was cold and rainy. A cloud would pass over and it would rain. Then we would dry out and then it would rain again. We finished up and headed home by 4:30-5 pm. While in the timber we saw 2 elk, numerous deer, and antelope.

One the way home we stopped by this area that has tepee rings. There were hundreds of them. The Native Americans used this area in the winter to camp, and make arrow heads.

Then we saw jump off canyon and red creek canyon-where we hiked up and saw a cave. The day ended with supper around 7 pm. Philip and his family came over around 7:30 pm. They came to spend the night, so we can start the cattle drive early--around 4 am on Thursday.


Breakfast was oatmeal
Lunch was baloney sandwiches, cookies, carrots, apple.
Supper was hamburgers, sweet corn, potato salad, Cold slaw and rhubarb crisp for dessert.