Spring Time in Texas

                                                  by    Mike Capron

The windmills are all turning and the dust is blowing….!!!!!  First the dirt then the green. The dust is so thick the sun can’t shine enough to turn the solar pumps on.   Good times for the windmills. The Van Horn dust gets here about eleven a.m. and the El Paso dust get here about mid-afternoon………. I never understand the wind, starts blowing mid morning and will generally lay about seven thirty pm.  Spring time in Texas. The Red Headed Buzzards are back ,just ahead of the Humming Birds…….Always allow enough time for the dust storms….. one spring we left the house on a beautiful clear morning to gather some cows and calfs and brand the calfs.  The wind got up before we got to the hold up. The wind and dust got up so strong I lost my cattle and couldn’t find the hold up. I had to turn my horse loose to find the house. He was doing a fine job of going to the house when a big tumbleweed hit him square in the butt.  I managed to stay aboard and was sure glad I made it to the house. I got my horse put up and went to the kitchen. The ladies were sure glad to see me. They wanted me to get a plate and sit down and eat, I was nineteen years old and that sounded like a good idea to me…..but that was not a proper thing to do. When the crew showed up, I was starting on my second piece of pie. You would have thought that I had eaten all the dinner and not left them anything to eat. I got plenty of verbal correction.  That is the last time I cut into the chow line.