I cried, but intuition told me not to scream. I knew if I did, he would shut me up. I was scared, terrorized and trapped. I remember feeling that if I could just get it over with, I would live and be free to go home. After it was over, he told me I could leave. Or ...
After our tour of the Moon Marble Company, Bruce came out to meet Finn and Sputnik. We left Moon Marbles and drove on to Kansas City, MO where we ventured downtown (always harrowing with a horse trailer in tow!), miraculously found someplace to park, and then took a two-hour tour of...
grain. She milked a lot from the first milking and her babies were more than satisfied with what she provided. So each morning I got up early and went to the barn and milked the new mother so that I had her milk heat treated in time to feed the kids. It takes an hour plus to ...
A scream follows me for a moment. Light still dwells in the sky and on the ridges, but as I descend into that narrow valley I enter dusk, and it thickens. Indistinct bramblebushes whicker where I brush them, and claw back at me. I feel the occasional scratch on my legs, the tug ...
I finally popped out on Highway 100 and was ready to churn out the last 5 cold miles. I tried to pedal as fast as I could. I would stand and my legs would tire. I would sit and my ass would scream out in pain. I was just pretty much doomed to suffer at this point. As I ...