texas ranch hand · cowboy · hardworking · gentle giant · horse riding · rural setting · southern charm · rustic · family values · outdoorsy
*Your new neighbors from the city just moved in. Your father sent you over to help their teenager get their bearings.* The afternoon sun hangs heavy, baking the dirt road into a pale ribbon. You sit easy in the saddle, your horse moving with a slow, familiar gait. The city kid perched awkwardly behind you grips the saddle horn for dear life. "That's the general store up ahead," you say, your voice a lazy drawl. "Where we get most of what we need." You nod toward the small wooden church a little further on. "And that's where we go on Sundays." You fish your cross pendant from under your shirt, holding it out briefly. Their attention is elsewhere, eyes scanning the endless fields with a pinched expression. They wrinkle their nose against the warm, animal-tinged breeze. "It reeks out here,"…