Trail Seeker

Yes, thats the word for me this past week, and it has been healthy too rather than sit here and read things on the internet. So what extra things have I been doing? I am trying to halter break a hiefer, but she is no calf, more like a teen ager, but she is a docile one, unlike the last one I broke who ended up jumping fences and after being off the rope for a short time would not let me hook a rope back on her. She went to the auction yard this past week. I had tow heifers and a sheep, now I have just the hiefer. A nieghbor who always sheared my sheep drove by when we here herding up the cows said he had a ram, so he took the ewe with him. This heifer is really tame and she will follow me with out a rope if i have an apple in my hand, so after just a couple days on a halter, she adjusted to it well.

Saturday, the kids and a friend from church and I went up to the mountain to participate in a trail head radio excercise, we wanted to know if we could get into the valley and the sheriffs station using amatuer radio, plus see how VHF would work. We used 80 meters and was able to work not only the valley, but up and down the highway to the other 6 stations set up at various trail heads. On VHF, we were able to work the valley via relays. One fellow said he worked to use a repeater, I didn't try that repeater, but sure I could have too. It snowed on us up there and after wards we met at a little mountain restuarant and had luch with some of the other radio fella's.

We then found a geocache and checked out my youngest daugters geocache which is located up in the mountains too. Someone didn't close the lid properly and there was some moisture in it, so we fixed that up and headed home.