A week after I went and looked at the cattle with the gentlman from Clinton, I got a call from the man that owned the cattle, and he said they were fixing to get them up to work them, and if  I wanted to see them in the daylight, then come on up. So on one of the coldest days in December, I set out to Chimes Arkansas, to look at the cattle that I was interested in buying.

When I arrived, they were working a few new ones, that had just been purchased, at a sale earlier that week. After they de-horned the ones that had horns, wormed them, and gave them shots, they turned them out into the field to start conditioning them to send them west. Now it was time to load into the Tahoe and take a short ride over to the other field, where the cattle I wanted to see, were kept.

We made it to field, and rode along, looking at them.  The conversations went back and forth about this one and that one.  Number 224 had a bad cough and, she was really coming along now and putting on weight, and so on, and so forth. We made numerous circles around them, and drove through them, and looked at them from all angles. They all looked really healthy, slick, and ready to sell, but I was still cautious because of the price. I was being charged for the preconditioning that had been done to the cattle, and I felt like I could do it on my own a little cheaper.

We made it back to the barn, and after small talk, I told him that I would be in touch with him, about my decision on buying his cattle, in a few days. A few days went by, and we had contacted the feed lot about sending a half of a load out there, with the cattle I was looking at, and they had told us that there would be small pens open on December 27. As the days rolled on, it was now Christmas, and the holidays were rolling along very nicely. I forgot to call him back about the cattle, and then when I finally remembered, it was December the 26th. I made a phone call to my  friend in Clinton, and he told me that he thought the man had sold the cattle, and they were getting ready to ship them that following day. The man in Clinton told me no worries we would start building a heard of my own.

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