Out Our Way:

Some may recall the time Charlie and I tried to move a few hundred head of cows from the summer pasture down o the winter pasture. It had been a wet spring and the summer grass had grown well, and the upper reservoir was almost overflowing. Come the fall when it was time to move the cows down to the lower pasture they didn't want to go. The grass was somewhat sparcer by now and the reservoir was les than half full, but to the cows it seemed plenty.

Yet Charlie and I knew that while the present grass and water supply seemed good enough, it would not last. Within a few weeks the pasture woul...