November 16th

got to the ranch to find chris all ready in ranching mode. he had ike in the tractor and was directing him [theres a story here ] they were unloading round bales. now the reason chris was directing is that he is having trouble wiggling. sat. he and the boys were filling his hopper when he stepped off the trailer he did his best imitation of a rock. square on his butt . now one would think thats ok, but you have to know what his back looks like. ya multiple yr s of child abuse being run over couple of times thrown out of pickups etc. . he has raging osteo arth . any how suspect he landed hard enough to shake loose the fused osteophytes .

  zach and lish showed up and lish was starving. that left me as the most domestic. chris built coffee and i did sausage  and eggs we were happy to find marie s chili. we opened it up and it was moving. decided it was chicken food. convinced lish to go with zach to turn water in west, ike shoehorned chris into side by side and were off to feed. i did dishes and sauntered off.

   turned to look at the mesa and focused on the little hill coming to the ranch. i walked off the mesa once leaving all those little boys up there. as i was getting to the ranch mom and dad were planting tree s in the garden. they looked up cause the girl started yelling, and then it happened. i caught fire! i fell to the ground like a possessed beating my leg . then i tore off my pants dancing up and down on that hill.when decided i was going to live i continued my walk [ mom and dad had not moved.] they did ask why i was there . i told them about  the runaway horses and two flats . no one asked about my seizure on the hill. frances finally asked . i told them about the stick  matches i had in my pocket. didn't get much sympathy. we had to get back up to rescue the boys.