Under the Wire

A good friend who lives several hundred miles away and I keep a pretty steady stream of emails back and forth between us.

We met as college freshmen, had similar college experiences, went our separate ways upon graduation and with hardly any contact the next 30 years, wound up living nearly identical lives. He on his ranch in southwestern Colorado, me on our ranch in northeastern Colorado, both running red cows.

Recently he emailed an account of taking his grandson on an elk hunt in the mountains of Western Colorado.

With no mountains, elk or grandsons I see very often, the hunting experience...