hardworking

Another trait a cowgirl has to have is hard working. Working on a ranch is not easy. It is very stressful and takes motivation to keep working towards the goals set for the best interest of the cattle. It takes hard work to reach these goals because they are not easily reached. Most of these goals are multiple tasks needing to be completed before the goal is accomplished.

            I have seen my mom wake up every morning in pain, but she deals with the pain and goes to work. My mom is over 50 years old and I see her completing the tasks that she completed when she was my age. These tasks take strength and leave you hurting once you complete them. Fencing is one of these tasks. Fencing may seem pretty simple and easily completed, but it actually takes more strength and exercise than people would think. My mom walks the fence line, which is not flat. It is up and down steep sandy hills. While walking the fence, she carries a bucket full of staples and a hammer. I was very surprised, when I had to carry the bucket how heavy it was. When she walks, she hits every post with the hammer to see if it is broken and checks if the staples are all the way into the post. Staples are used to hold the barbed wire to the posts.  If a post is broke, my mom takes all the staples off and breaks the post completely off. After they broken post is out of the way, she grabs the post-hole diggers and digs a hole that is about two to three feet deep. When the hole is dug, she puts the post in the hole and fills the hole in, so the post is stable. Then she takes staples and staples the wire to the new post. From there she continues down the fence line until she has finished walking the entire fence that needs to be walked. That may not seem very hard, but you feel the strenuous work your muscles used the next morning.