Western Utah

[runfiverun]

sheep rip the roots out, cows pull the grass so it can grow back.
now everyone knows why cattlemen hate sheep herders.

[blackthorn]

sheep rip the roots out, cows pull the grass so it can grow back.
now everyone knows why cattlemen hate sheep herders.

Wow, and here I thought it was because shepherd's pie was made with beef!

[Olut]

Mrs. Thumbcocker wants to get some trilobites at a pay to mine place and then head on for topaz. Me I am happy anywhere I can have some quiet and shoot some rocks.

My wife and I have rock hounded thru UTAH many times. Delta is "off the beaten path", but quite accessible. We spent 4 hours at the trilobite beds & were tired but happy with our pickings. The attendant at the "pay to collect" site was helpful and knowledgeable. Topaz Mountain is another fun site and also easy to access, but don't expect a lot of gem-quality finds (we are heading off from New Hampshire to western Colorado and eastern Utah for a collecting trip this weekend!)

[runfiverun]

even a sheep herder won't eat sheep.

[MT Gianni]

The Campbells Soup company has been the biggest buyer of old bad mouthed ewes for decades. If you think you don't eat mutton in a cream soup think again.

[Mike H]

sheep rip the roots out, cows pull the grass so it can grow back.
now everyone knows why cattlemen hate sheep herders.

You learn something every day,I would have thought overstocking with sheep was the problem.

[tucumcari_kid]

The Campbells Soup company has been the biggest buyer of old bad mouthed ewes for decades. If you think you don't eat mutton in a cream soup think again.

I like lamb. Probably because I grew up on Campbell's soup.

[runfiverun]

he said mutton, and the worst kind there is.

[Bad Water Bill]

MEMORIES

About 30 years ago I was given directions to a town in southern Utah (no I will not name the town even if I could remember it) where I could cpllect all of the pet wood I wanted.

The gentleman was in the road construction business and years before he had collected enough wood that he built a fortress for his kids to play cowboys and indians in.

He sent us to a spot where he had built a watering hole for antelope.

He drew us a map then gave us 3 hours to search and get back too his home or he would drag us back out of a quicksand pit.

Yes we saw many logs sticking out of the dunes but they were all to big to fit in our maxi van and yes we found the quicksand pit but we got out on time.

Not a place you should venture into by yourself.

[runfiverun]

that would be further south than Delta.