Honey is busy doing the cowboy thing - breeding and branding cattle, horse training, and taking care of the dudes ... that is, the ranch guests. Sally and Honey take over management of the ranch due to Buds worsening condition and do a good job of booking guests for the summer and keeping the ranch running smoothly. Honey is growing up fast ... and Sally has a big surprise for him.

Meet our young cowboy friend as he work his summer ranch job, then follow his journey alone with his horse and pregnant burro across a couple hundred miles to get home before school starts. The journey is adventurous, and the folks he meets along the way are all good folks...well, almost.

Ginny, Sally and Honey's daughter, is growing up quickly and becoming quite the little cowgirl. She helps to take the dudes out on horse rides on her Welsh pony named Pumpkin. Grandpa Bud lets her choose her very own colt, which she names Pumpernickel. --back cover

"Ranching is hard work, and it gets harder for Honey as he becomes foreman. There are cows and horses to feed and calves to be taken care of -- especially during the hard winter. And with Bud's illness everyone has to take on more work. From horse thieves to bears to poachers -- Honey has his hands full. But he keeps in mind the old saying ... things always work out the way they're supposed to. Not to mention the big day -- he and Sally get married!"--...

Shows how to recycle waste materials to create compost, discusses the uses of compost and equipment used, and includes instructions for building compost containers.

"They were all good hands, the kind of cowboys--or buckaroos--that could work on any cow outfit. They didn't all arrive together, they just sorta drifted in, one at a time. Tom hired them on in January to help with the calving, even though it was early, There wasn't much riding to do, just go through the cattle each day looking for something that might be wrong. The cows weren't supposed to start calving until the middle of February. The ranch already...

"He hit the ground with a hard thump. His whole body bounced once and then lay still. He tried to catch his breath, but it was difficult. He thought he might have broken some ribs when he hit the ground, but he soon determined that he hadn't broken anything. He spit the corral dust out of his mouth. Somehow, it didn't taste like regular corral dust. It had a foul taste as much as he spit, he couldn't completely rid himself of the taste. Men were running...

""If he's found guilty, it won't be jail, it'll be prison," said the sheriff. "He actually might be lucky. If he'd stolen those horses seventy-five years ago, he'd be hung, right on the spot, probably without a trial." As Fred was being transported to the prison, he carefully observed the scenery on the way. He was depressed as he thought he wouldn't see the sagebrush, trees, mountains and desert for at least three years. He didn't make friends easily...