Ranch Work is Hard But You Make It Easy

Two Grown Men Seven Ranch Hands And No One Has The Brain Cell

Chapter Summary: they got 10ft of fence line on the north side of the property that needs fixin and the cows are out, could the day possibly get any worse

Note: this is ♡ Ike using sign language

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this day could not possibly get any worse was the first thing to come to Sam's mind when Noah came riding back to the house like a bat out of hell after leaving to go check the fence line

and Sam had a pretty good feeling that with the way Noah was running his horse he had bad news

"Sam" Noah pulled his horse to a stop "We got 10ft of fence down on the north side"

Sam ran his hand through his hair and sighed "What about the cows did ya see em when you was down there"

Noah climbed down off of Tumbleweed
"I seen a couple of em on the other side"

"damn, the others are probably over there to well I'll go get the boys and Lou, grab yourself a fresh horse and get Teaspoon" Sam put out his cigarette as Noah nodded and walked away Sam turned and walked into the ranch house

there were four things that Sam knew for sure when he walked in 1. Emma and Rachel were not home and would not be back for a while 2. he had to call Lou's name first beacause if he called them a boy and got the pronouns wrong he'd never hear the end of it, especially after last time 3. he was going to need everyone's help and that put him at risk of getting in trouble with Emma because Jimmy has only been back up and Working for a week after hurting his ankle and according to Emma and Rachel should not be doing any real heavy lifting 4. he was going to be real glad when Lou found their pronoun bracelets that had mysteriously went missing five days ago when Lou was in the shower

Sam thanks Cody might have had something to do with the pronoun bracelet situation since he loves to pull pranks on the others so much but now is not the time to worry about missing belongings, Sam stopped in the doorway of the living room and looked at the six ranch hands accumulated on the furniture and floor

"Lou, boys I need y'all to get your horses saddled and follow Noah back over to the north side of the fence line"

Lou was the first on their feet and out of the comfortable spot they seemed to have had on the couch "why did something happen?"

"we got 10 ft of fence down and the cows are out, I want y'all to ride down there with Noah and round up the cows, me and Teaspoon will follow in the work truck with everything we need to fix the fence"

"well what are we wait around here for let's go" Jimmy said while standing up and grabbing his hat

Sam shook his head as much as he wanted to tell Jimmy to stay home for Emma's sake he knew he needed him out there with the others so they could get this done faster
"just be careful with that ankle of yours okay Hickok"

"aw you don't have to worry about me Sam I'm good as new" Jimmy smiled and walked past Sam to make his way to the barn to get sundown

"Yeah I'll bet ya are" Sam yelled after him as the others also went to get their horses once Sam was sure the hands were getting ready to go he went to over to the work truck where Teaspoon was waiting for him

"Well Sam how bad is it?" Teaspoon adjusted the old battered hat on top of his head and hooked his thumbs in the straps of his pink suspenders

"I don't know Teaspoon all Noah said was the cows are out and we got 10ft of fence down" Sam grabbed two spools of wire and threw them into the back of the truck