Chapter 13 – Last Ride

Saturday Morning, August 16th, 2014

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I was exhausted, totally spent. I didn’t know if it was from the combination of a week spent running between the fair and the department or if it was from my night with Dana...probably a combination of all three.

My focus was on getting the calves home and getting the family through the rest of the weekend of cleaning and putting away. I just needed to stay awake and alert for it. There’d be time to sleep later.

By 7:30 AM we were loading the calves in the stock trailer along with a half dozen other families. People were moving about here, there and everywhere. Intent on leading Beth’s as yet unnamed calf toward our hauler, I didn’t even see my old high school classmate Brian McRae approaching.

“That’s a fine-looking feed……