Chapter 6 – Heat Wave

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Chapter 6 – Heat Wave Sunday, August 10th, 2014 It was just after 9:00 and already so hot the thin asphalt at the edges of the roadways was bubbling and sticky. I scraped some of the tar off my dress boots before I walked into the cattle barn. Cole was in the wash basin hosing urine off his steer after a long night of him peeing all over himself. Beth was in the stall with the other three steers pitching soiled, smelly straw into a wheelbarrow so she could lay fresh bedding down. She’d unplugged the fan directly over where she was cleaning so it wouldn’t work against her. I stood behind two of their animals under the other one hoping to get my uniform shirt and the tee under it a little unstuck from my back. Kids and dairy steers were moving about the main aisle as animals were being b

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