This is the first chapter of a longer work of fiction. All characters herein are over the age of 18. Somewhere In The Great Plains Most folks think ranch life is all cowboy hats, “Yee haw,” and rodeos – it’s not. Operating any ranch, even a smaller, family spread like ours is work, and a lot of it. My parents knew this when they decided to take out a loan to build our home and operate the four-hundred-acre stretch of land...