The Tradition Still Lives...

By: Gina Kay Singerhouse
Editor

 

   It's a cool fall morning, as the tour bus rolls down that lonely stretch of highway.  The sun is just peaking over the horizon, as its rays capture the fresh dew that covers the green grass below.  It's harvest time and he sympathizes with all the farmers and ranchers as they pass by the fields, filled with corn, that are ready to be picked.
   It's a hard life and he remembers it like it was just yesterday.  As a boy, he was up before the cock crowed to welcome the sun.  He had chores to do before school.  There were two cows to milk and hogs to feed.  But, he never forgot the long hours that he would put in during harvest time.  Nonetheless when he laid his head down on that pillow each night, there was that feeling of accomplishment.  It's a feeling that one can only get, when you work on a ranch or farm.
  He is brought back to another time, as the bus passes by a ranch with horses grazing. Their beautiful coats glisten in the early morning sun. He is brought back to his cowboy ways.  He can still remember that ol' quarter horse he used to have.  She was beautiful, sleek and full of power in a gentle sort of way.  He can remember the way the two of them melted together to become one, as he rode her along the fence line.
   A twinge of minor pain moves up his spine as he remembers his days as a bronco buster and bull rider.  Ah, Texas.  The wide open skies and simple ranch life.  He misses the life, but not all the hard work...

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