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CLEVE AND KATEY RODE OUT THE FRONT GATE AND TURNED TOWARD THE KJ, AT THE KJ GATE KATEY STEPPED DOWN AND OPENED UP THE GASTE AND LET CLEVE IN. SHE RESHUT THE GATE AND TROTTED TO CATCH UP WITH CLEVE WHO WAS RIDEING ON UP THE TWO WHEEL TRACK. IT DIDNT TAKE HER LONG TO NOTICE HE WAS SMILLING, LOOKING ALL AROUND AT THE COUNTRY. THE GREENERY WAS COMMING ON STRONG THE TERM OVER GRAZED DIDNT APPLY ANY MORE. AT THE WINDMILL THERE WERE NO CATTLE TRACKSTHE SALT BLOCKS HAD ONLY BEEN USED BY DEER. THEY RODE ON. AS THEY STARTED GETTING INTO THE ROUGHER COUNTRY THERE WERE POT HOLES OF WATER EVERYWHERE. CLEVE COMMENTED THAT A COW WOULDNT NEED TO GO FAR FOR WATER OR GRASS. KATEY COULD HEAAR A BIT OF PRIDE IN HIS VOICE. LATER THAT AFTERNOON THEY RODE BACK INTO THE HEADQUARTERS AT CLEVES RANCH.THEY HADNT SEEN ANY CATTLE TRACKS ON THE KJ. HE STATED THE NEXT DAY THJEY WOULD PROWL HIS RANCH AND CHECK HIS COWS THHE HAY STACK FOR THE SLICKS AND FRESH BRANDED CATTLE WAS GOING FAST. CLEVE WANTED TO TAKE THESE CATTLE BACK TO THE KJ BUT KNEW HE WOULD START A WAR WITH THE STATE LAND DEPARTMENT. HE DECIDED THEY WOULD CLEAN UP THE HAY STACK BUT TRY TO GET PERMISSION TO RESTOCK THE K J. KATEY LISTENED WHILE HE MADE HIS PLANS AND SAW A WHOLE DIFFERENT MAN. AT THE SADDLE ROOM KATEY LEFT AND WENT TO THE HOUSE TO START A LATE LUNCH. CLEVE UNSADDLED THE HORSES. A HALF HOUR LATER KATEY SLID A PLATE OF FOOD IN FRONT OF CLEVE ALONG WITH A TALL GLASS OF ICE TEA. FROM WHERE CLEVE SAAT HE COULD LOOK OUT THE SCREEN DOOR TO THE WEST. IN THE DISTANCE OVER THE MOUNTAINS HE COULD SEE BIG BLACK THUNDER HEADS BUILDING. ONCE IN A WHILE HE COULD LIGHTNING. THE MONSOON CONTINUED. KATEY BROUGHT HER PLATE TO THE TABLE AND WAS GOING TO SIT OPPOSITE CLEVE, BUT MOTIONED HER TO ONE SIDE" DONT BLOCK MY VIEW GAL" WAS ALL HE SAID. SHE COULD SEE A PEACEFUL COUNTNANCE ON HIS FACE. HE WAS ACTUALLY ENJOYING LIFE.