Her legacy serves as a reminder to us to keep looking up even when all of the many challenges that raising cattle throws at us tries to get us down. So, thanks Gram, for sending us a little ray of your light when we are freezing our fingers pulling a calf in the snow, or the market tanks, or the trailer blows two tires in one trip to town, or it doesn’t rain for 2 months, or it does rain non-stop for 2 months and we spend all our time pulling each other out of the mud and treating pneumonia.

 

In good times or bad, she’d always say, “I’m just a real lucky ol so n so”. In reality, we were the lucky ones to have had her in our lives. Her and the rest of our wonderful family who have guided us along this trail. We are so blessed to have come from a long line of Montana and Texas ranchers and Midwest farmers, cattle feeders, and dairymen. Raising cattle runs in our blood. Couldn’t have done it without them.