Kade Takes His Walk, April 26, 2014, Kolob, Utah

He walked and remembered to stay to the edge. This is where he threw the bag of bees. The gravel here at the edge is full of goats' heads is why the boots. This is where the Cruise America with the Californias in it came over the hill at sunrise and he swinged up into the cottonwood but it hit him anyway bet he didn't even get hurt but Mom yelled and cried all day and told him one thousand times never walk in the middle only to the edge. This is where that one summer the renters lived after Old Man Nelson died and he saw her tits in the night but only the one time. He kept going back to put his dink in the fence at her window but he never saw her tits again and then she went to the City. This is also --this same tan house-- where the tall skinny guy lives now and cuts his Coors cans into silver twists and has this like Christmas tree of Coors cans now shining in the porch. He walked to the crossing and stopped to decide which way to go. To proceed. This decision he always made by wind, which way it was blowing, and this time it went to the Mountain that is North. And so but, --however--, another wind, a stealth wind, went East to the canyons and so that is the way he went, stealth now, blending into the roadside grass walking like an Anasazi on just the toes of his boots so that the 2014 Subaru Outback with Thule roof rack out patrolling to sniper him cruised by and didn't even see him til it was too late for them and he squeezed the detonator. And this is the biggest Angus bull in Kolob. He climbed the fence and hooked his heals and sat the top rail, He built this fence with his Mom for the rich City people. The rail is lodgepole pine from Montana which what a wasteful expense had said his Mom. They did not want the bobwire to snag the deer or hurt their bull which however no bull this enormous will get even a scratch from no stinkin bobwire. And this is a cow with Old Man Ferral's brand on it pushing into the fence and the bull's dink is like a red arm so he sits and and watches and the bull humps the cow and he has a pretty good viewing angle and he smiles about how much he can teach that renter with the tits when she moves back to Kolob looking for some cowboy loving. When the bull is done and the cow is back to eating and the Mexican is riding in and the wind goes North he dismounts the fence and walks. Here is the tiller they let rust by the road and he knocked last summer and offered to take away and they said no. This house is also now renters. This is the quakie where the bees was and when he knocked and offered to take the rusty tiller and the renters said no they said but you can take those bees away, only they called them yellowjackets, and they laughed but he took a trashbag and just quick slipped it up over the big nest and over the branch and tied it and then cut the branch off and got stung only once and took the branch with the buzzing bag back up there and threw it in the weeds and they gave him five dollars and a Coke Zero. Here is the tall skinny guy coming in his 2012 F-350 and doing the city wave he does. His hat is not right. He walked through the willows where the road is low. This is where the cougar that night was standing and he surprised him and went through the fence where even a lamb can't fit and so he started carrying his revolver that the renters wanted him to shoot the Coke Zero can but a man doesn't show off with his revolver Mom said and plus he had no ammo they don't sell no .38 over to Cannonville no more but a cougar knows the sight of a sidearm and is very terrified of a cowboy hat even with no horse under it. He came out of the willows on the rise. This is a 2WD in a rut, is what this is. Just a old Dodge as can't get out of the mud where the riser blew last week and it is still wet and soft and tore-up. He walked up to the guy pushing that has mud all over and says I am Kade and the guy's hand is small and soft. They are up to they axle in snot-slick bentonite mud and not doing it right so he goes over to the now-fixed riser and gets a couple rocks and puts them in the ruts and a couple more and the other guy who is driving and has earrings but is probably not a faggot guns it and the 2WD gets on the road and the first guy gets in and says thanks and they drive away slingin mud all over and he gets the rocks out and puts them back by the riser. He remembers that Old Man Nelson's boy bought this pasture so he walks over to his house but he's not in so he tells his new fat wife Lucinda to tell him he can move handlines if he wants two dollars the run. She is not a kindly woman so he keeps it short and all business. This is where the road just goes on with no houses for a good stretch before town and he remembers when he was a boy he raced through here when he was short enough to ride Mom's buckskin Yellow that was then the fastest horse in Kolob and he always won. But now he is tall and that horse is not going to last another winter and is swayback and got no teeth to speak of however is a good horse for Mom to get out on now and then such as Fourth of July Parade when the Relief Society goes riding in dresses they made. There was this one time he was racing and that was when the road was first paved and the buckskin Yellow didn't know paving and lost his feet on the bend and Yellow and he'd almost gone down but he dragged his left boot and Yellow'd twisted like a cat and they come out of the bend at full gallop and won it anyway which is how people still slap his shoulder ten years later and tell everyone he is the best rider in Kolob he that don't even have no horse. He walked and walked. There is his Coke Zero can now pink in the weeds. Here is the Nelson boy's new gate that is hung on a opener that is $600 at the IFA. This is the stumps of the Russian olives with the green kind of herbicide they but on to kill them and the tangle where they threw all the branches and he got the logs for firewood that burns hot as hell but it smells like cigars and is not worth it on account of it's a bitch to split it. In last winter he had got tired of TV and he went to the hippy barn to the Invasive Non-Natives which is this slideshow and a talk by this hippy from over to Arizona and they hooked him up with a job in the canyons cutting saltcedar that they call tamarisk and anyways it was itchy scratchy hot work but the pay was real good and he liked those hippies and the Survival School girls from down at the yurts and there was this one that wore buckskins and had a braid and he saw her peeing in the sand and she did not look one bit shy but he gave her her lady privacy but them last three, four weeks in his sleeping bag when she was over there sleeping pretty in the moonlight just about near wrecked and killed him after he saw her butt and another time one of her tits when she was working a Stihl. Those are things that stick with a man day and night and make him wish he had a wife mostly one with a braid and brown skin but he doesn't like a woman doing chainsaw work. That is too manly. Here is the cottonwood that the hippies put the swing on that is a cedar log on this purple rope that they was going to try to climb out over that high branch and he tied his wrench to and threw it over and they told him that was a great idea Kade and one of them gave him a hug in her swimsuit the one with tattoo around her waist. This swing goes way out over the Nelson boy's pond and they drop in and he likes to watch but no way is he going in that cowshit water and no way is he taking his shirt off with no hippy girls. This is the flat rock. This is the other of those lodgepole fences of wasteful expense. Here is the four walls but no roof of the old county shed with its biggest packrat nest he ever saw. Up here is the new tower for cell phones which he is going to get one. And the bend where another Cruise America came too wide and killed the Lyman boy when he was out to get the mail. He always stops here to think about that and he squeezes the detonator here every time. There was this one time these drunks knocked his hat off and there was five of them and all he could do was squeeze the detonator even though any one of them he could beat and maybe any two as they was weak city boys, just milk-fed. But so, however the detonator is just something he does when what else you going to do. No way you going at a Russian olive with a hatchet you use a Stihl. And no way you going at five drunk college boys with your fists you use the detonator. This is where Bishop Young's Dad shot Old Man Nelson's brother Hyrum for stealing his water with a underground old 4" handline he hidden at night in a ditch he dug and patched up the sod over it which his buddy Stanley Young said why would you work so darn hard to steal water if you could just do some ranching with all that effort and buy your own darn water share fair and square. It is always better to do it fair and square the water thieves get caught sooner than later and can't sleep well neither before nor after gettin put in jail. This is the driveway he needs to get after with the grader the weeds are gettin tall this spring. It is getting blue on the mountain the rain this year is good there will be overflow water through June at least and it looks like a three-cutting year the first they've had in five years. This is his Mom walking up with the healers. What are you grinning at she says and he says hi Mom I did my walk I stayed to the side Old Man Ferral's cows are knocked up the renters is not back yet I got some city boys out of the mud up where the riser broke don't worry Mom it's lunch time.