As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I took this picture while fixing fence as people always are interested in what the Brier Patch looks like, and most times it is covered with feet of snow so you do not get a look at the country.
The reason I took the picture was that when I parked, I had no idea there was even a rock there that I was about to go bang into.
The reason I did not see the rock, is I was turning , and the reason I was turning, even if you can not see it, where I'm parked is on a peninsula, of in Colonel Richard Irving Dodge's military terms, this would be a dependable position, because it is on a high hill, with steep banks surrounding it.
Here is an aerial shot of it and I think I have the correct rock circled in red.
What is amazing is how flat this all looks from above. The cluster of rocks at the bottom though are about half way up a steep incline. One after hours of fixing fence, I want to stop and sit on, as they are big flat rocks, but I knew if I stopped, I would not want to get up, so I kept going thinking I was going to have a heart attack.
The better Indian route is by the tree on the backside of this position. It is just as deep but it is a gradual rise.
As you can see there a number of rocks. Thank God I never hit one. Uncle did, tore the front wheel off as he broke the frame of the pick up. Welder her up and he drove that Ford for years.
I never dented nor knocked the blinkers out of this pick up. It came that way. I try to be careful. Only broke one thing in the driver' mirror as it was snow, no 4 x 4 and slippery and I ran into a cattle panel.
What you can't see is what I was looking at in the not seeing the rock. This was the first time I had the pick up out there as I did not want to haul things a half mile out there like the first time. I wanted to park on a little shelf to the right, but I thought if I could not get out of there I was screwed. What I was thinking at the time was not to get on too much of an incline or I would probably look at the pick up breaking out of PARK and going over the edge of these cuts which again would not have amused me.
So it was a further walk, but the pick up stayed put and I did not have any more drama or things to worry about in the vehicle.
Tomorrow I will be parking on another ridge for another walk down vertical places to repair more fence. It would be lovely to have an ATV to haul around stuff like all the other rich people do. I never have liked climbing rocks like mountain goats and this land is some of the roughest that is around. It is why Grandpa got it, no one else wanted it as the people with money got the good land.
Apparently the first owner was kind of a dimwit, in Grandpa kept finding tools all over the place that the guy had sat down and left. Grandpa told me on this piece of ground, when he plowed, he coyotes used to follow in the dead furrow looking for mice. He said it was kind of creepy on horses having coyotes follow you around.
He almost killed himself when he was under horse cultivator that the lever to raise and lower it fell and clunked him in the head. He came too, it hurt, he had dried blood on his head, and he must have been out for quite awhile.
Oh am going to close with this observation. So the GMC is two wheel drive. I drive it down a gully and back out going out with no problem. I remember going in that Rog, tells me that you shift an auto transmission into like second or third so it will not spin. So I put it in second and up the gully I go. OK the pick up stalls in second gear, and I drop to first and it starts spinning half way up. I'm like this is great as how the hell do I get out of this gully when thank God the Holy Angels pushed and up I went.
Am never listening to another dumb ass in advice like that. Keeping it in DRIVE as the pick up can figure out how to shift, and the GMC rarely spins unless it is last resort. Morons and their advice and I learned my lesson.
Nuff Said
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