Family Thanksgiving

The family Thanksgiving was great. We got home, stuffed to the gills, and did chores. Came in to relax. Kept hearing the dogs go off but didn't see anything.  Even the inside dogs. It was weird. Then a pickup stopped in front of the house and said the horses were out and headed up the hill onto conservation.  Well we take off with flashlights and headed up the hill, dogs in tow. Wes went and got the pickup. Yes I know, no motorized vehicles up on conservation but this was an emergency.  He found them grazing in an opening. Turns out that it's the entire herd. The gate chain broke and they all took off. They stayed together but wouldn't follow the feed bucket so we went back to the house leaving the stock dogs with the horses. I grabbed my saddle, bridle, leadropes, halters...etc. saddled up faith but she's developed heaves I believe  so that didn't last long. Put hater on her and handed her to Wes to lead. I caught Royal and we started walking to the house. Yep truck up in a field. Turns out the others not only followed but ran ahead of us. They waited at the bottom of the hill for us and when we caught up they headed into the yard and over to the opened gate and went in and headed for the water tank. It actually turned out easier than I thought. Got them put up and got in the suv to go get the truck. Thankfully it was warmish outside. It just sucked that it was pitch dark. It was an eventful evening.