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We always try to stay at a bed and breakfast...enjoy the people and breakfast is my favorite meal...so love all the fussing, because I hate to cook in the morning! I'm sure you'll be visiting often. Just a gorgeous state...too bad it takes all day to get there!

Carol Ann the young man in the background of Samuel is a boy from our son's church.  He loved the quilt and complimented big time on it.  He is one of 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls.  Nice family and beautiful children.

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Your mini retreat sounds heavenly.  Have fun!  (Just back in the house for a water break and to check on the heifers.)  Trying to respond in bits and pieces to those who left comments on my post.  I read through them so quickly last night that I missed a lot of good stuff.  I'm trying to take the time to focus more carefully on each one.  I hope you were able to skype with your son in Alaska.  What does he do there?  I would think just living in Alaska would be an adventure.  

Just wanted you to know how much encouragement I get from folks like you and the other quilters on this web site.  You really brighten my day.

I thank you for the kind words, but I'm not sure we can take too much credit.  I used to say we were blessed with great kids - in spite of their parents! :D  I guess we did the best we could with what we knew at the time.  It always seems like one can look back and think they could have done this or that differently/better.   

I think he'll always (health & Lord willing) work with horses, but his first love is ranching and working with livestock and rangeland.  He's just working for different outfits in the summers because we want him to understand that there are all types of ranch management practices and because it is good for him to work for someone other than dad.  It's also good for kids to learn to stand on their own two feet, making decisions, living with the consequences and just learning to be responsible adults in general.  We miss both of our kids when they aren't home, but it makes the time we spend with them all the sweeter.  

BTW, Tell's little dog isn't much of a cow dog yet, and he's not sure she'll make one.  She may end up just bring some ranch kid's pet.  She's a sweet, little thing, but just doesn't seem to have the interest or determination to work the cattle like she should.  The great ones are not only well trained, but they also have it bred into them instinctively as well.  

I'm getting ready to head out the door to take care of some fence.  I've got laundry on the line and the dinner dishes cleaned up.  Just had a minute while DH checked on some heifers.

Carol, you're right - the horses and cowdogs are just tools of the trade.  Some ranches provide the cowboys with their own string of horses for the summer out of the ranch remuda, but other ranches don't keep extra horses on hand, so the cowboys have to provide their own.  Our son works with horses for a living while going to school.  He's worked with some really top-notch horse trainers and seems to have a gift for it.  Three of the four horses he took with him this year are "outside" (owned by others) horses that need trained for ranch work.  He gets paid for riding them all summer.  This is in addition to his ranch wages, so it just helps him earn extra money for his college tuition.  (He's working his way through school.)  He took one well-broke horse, his own.  The others are a little rough around the edges yet.  The hands bring their own tack (saddles, bridles, ropes, etc) and bedroll.  At this outfit, he's responsible for his own meals as well.  Thanks for your interest.  

I'm sure you'll know what's best to do.  It would be a difficult situation.  How disappointing, though.  

I'm the youngest in the old Easter photo. We were living in Oklahoma then. :D