Out Our Way: The smell of water - Isaiah 30:21

Out our way, the days can grow dry and hot, especially when the rains are slow in coming. Up in the summer pasture on the Tiger Ridge, the reservoir begins to shrink as the grass turns dry and yellow by fall when it is time to move the herd. If it has been an especially dry summer, by fall roundup the cattle are desperate for water. That was why it was so hard to move them away from the nearly dried-out water hole that fall when Charley and I had to call in reinforcements to move them to the fall pasture. They were thirsty and though there was little water left and it would soon be gone, they...