The Totem

The Totem

 

I can’t say what took hold of us that Saturday.  We made a strange decision.

A Texas Ranching Adventure: The Family Milk Cow

Driving through the dark down a Texas highway, my husband at the wheel, I shone the flashlight at the book and read,

A Texas Ranching Adventure: Coping with Neighbors

“But who are you married to?” the older woman asked again.

“The German across the road,” I said for the third time.

She shook her head and frowned.

“He’s my husband,” I insisted.

She stared at me.  “But . . .”

She just couldn’t believe that I, a white woman, was married to a German.*

A Texas Ranching Adventure: The Spirits of the Field

Texas Ranching Adventure:  The Spirits of the Field

Behind our ranch house and across a dry creek bed was a long rectangular pasture.  There was something strange in that place—it could be felt.