Cleaning the Water Troughs

Neil's wondering why his kids aren't older...

At Wexford, a lot of the water for cattle is found in water troughs fed by underground wells that are pumped by windmills. 

One summer when I was in high school, my friend and golf partner, Amy, and I worked on the ranch--our job was to clean all the water troughs.  It was convenient for our golf schedule, but not necessarily a great job.  It was hot, dirty, slimy, and wet, and my dad and Amy's stepdad still talk about it more than a decade later.  Since there's no cheap manual labor (kids) on the ranch any more, Neil, the Straw Boss, was responsible for cleaning the water trough in the West Pasture recently.  I'm sure he was wishing that his kids were old enough to send out to do that, but I guess the next time the troughs will need to be cleaned the Heard children will be the prime age.

Cleaning over a decade of muck out of the trough.