Monday found me back on the road for a day trip to Ft Worth. With the change of seasons you always see something new on highway 287. But still as much as I have traveled this road I get a little bored.
While in Ft Worth I had the opportunity to take my client by the Ft Worth Stockyards. After being at the National Western Stock Yards last week I found it to be a little ironic to be at the same type location just a few days and a few hundred miles apart. Okay so it’s a few days and several hundred miles apart. My client remembered several stories his dad told him about buying cattle at the Ft Worth stockyards. The stories simply build up the romance of the time. Stories about determined and persevering people who endured good times and trying times.
Here is a couple of links to the history of the Fort Worth Stockyards. I found the history about the Armor & Co and the Swift & Co packing plants to be especially intresting.
Click - http://www.fortworthstockyards.org/history_overview.aspx
and
Click - http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/FF/dif4.html
Here are some pictures of the taken while we were at the stockyards. (click on the pic's for a larger view)
With the intense travel schedule of the past several it was nice to have a couple of days off while my client spent time in his office.
Thursday found us back on the road to Jay Oklahoma. Traveling East, the land looked dry all the way. My client mentioned there seems to be a lot less cattle on wheat pasture. From Tulsa east there was still a lot of grass and the cows seemed to be doing well. My client observed that there are still a lot of calves running in pastures either with the cows or in adjacent pastures. Some are getting pretty big.
I had to work overtime on Thursday. It was about a 7 hour drive to Jay Oklahoma where my client spoke to at a cattlemen’s conference. After that he made me take him back to Oklahoma City, which was another 3 hours back west. At 12:30 I was very glad to see the LaQuinta Inn. This is the hotel my client usually stays at when he is in Oklahoma City. It’s pretty new and very comfortable. They took good care of us.
A quick drive home Friday morning so my client could enjoy his kids participating in the county stock show. More animals, Yea!
Thursday found us back on the road to Jay Oklahoma. Traveling East, the land looked dry all the way. My client mentioned there seems to be a lot less cattle on wheat pasture. From Tulsa east there was still a lot of grass and the cows seemed to be doing well. My client observed that there are still a lot of calves running in pastures either with the cows or in adjacent pastures. Some are getting pretty big.
I had to work overtime on Thursday. It was about a 7 hour drive to Jay Oklahoma where my client spoke to at a cattlemen’s conference. After that he made me take him back to Oklahoma City, which was another 3 hours back west. At 12:30 I was very glad to see the LaQuinta Inn. This is the hotel my client usually stays at when he is in Oklahoma City. It’s pretty new and very comfortable. They took good care of us.
A quick drive home Friday morning so my client could enjoy his kids participating in the county stock show. More animals, Yea!
