Today we toured the Hearst Castle near San Simeon, California. W.R. Hearst had, at one time, a zoo on the property. Today only a few "zoo" animals remain including these zebra who run right with the cattle. We had such a hard time resisting the urge to walk out and take them all for a drive!

Richard and I enjoyed a great vacation traveling the coast between San Jose and Pismo Beach in late October. Thanks to cell phone technology (when we chose to turn it on, which wasn’t very often!), we were even available to speak to folks wanting a stockmanship school in their area like Richard is doing in this photo taken at Point Lobos State Park.

And here we both are at the end of one of the glorious rock formations at the Park.

Here’s the group at the Elizabethtown One Day Stockmanship School

Special thanks to the sponsors of this school:

Kentucky Beef Network
176 Pasadena Drive
Lexington, KY 40503
859-278-0899
859-260-2060
info@kycattle.org

Charlie Edgington
Whayne Supply
195 Lisle Industrial Avenue
Lexington, KY 40511
859-229-0442

Chris McBurney
McBurney’sLivestock Equipment
1160 Mt. Gilead Rd
New Castle, KY 40050
502-845-1160 Home
502-741-7088 Cell
502-845-0594 Fax
chrismcburney@wildblue.net

Paul Redmon
Program For Ag Development
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
Predmonii0001@kctcs..edu
270-268-3195

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“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

- Leo Rosten