A taste of Memories on the Tongue. Volume 2: Twenty new short stories about growing up on the Tongue River in North Central Wyoming (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798270038113)

This book is the perfect combination of a full read and a book of short stories. You will enjoy the adventures of growing up on the lower Tongue River in Northern Wyoming. The author, Kenn Pilch was born and raised on the four thousand acre ranch and with his older brother and sister, worked as a part of the family trying to make things profitable. In these short stories, he shares his memories of the hard times, the fun times the loving times and the aggravating times. By the end of this book, you will have met his family, some of the animals he grew up with and feel like you were there as he experienced these events. Mary Sunshine, the sheep that had it in for him, Petals, the milk cow that just wouldn't cooperate and Snoop, the horse that hit him, all come alive as you read these twenty stories. Kenn wasn't a perfect child and much of life he had to learn on his own. Now in his retirement years, he shares with us the sometimes funny, sometimes frightening and sometimes dangerous stories as he remembers them. He truly lived each story. He was there when Daisie, the geriatric cow stumbled through the roof of the tunnel he and his brother dug. You will feel the moisture from a fresh rain on your pant legs as you witness his dad save the neighbors cow. Kenn gives us a front row seat to learn how Biddy the old setting hen reluctantly gives her all to the families favorite meal of chicken and noodles. Each story will take you there to the ranch as you walk along side Kenn as he does his chores, gets repeatedly taken down by a mean old sheep and ends up in the river while chasing Petals the cow. It is a wild rodeo as Kenn shares the giant mishap of his horse being pulled over backwards in the corral of calves with him still in the saddle. Volume 1 and this book, volume 2 give you a total of 36 wonderful stories to stir your feelings of what life was like as a ranch hand on the Tongue River in Northern Wyoming.