PRINTERS' PASTIMES -- Outside the Lines

"That suited us well so as not to give up our day jobs," Womack relates. The family has had as many as 50 head of longhorn steer at one time, but with Texas drought conditions in the past few years, the herd has been kept down to 20 to 30 head. Womack has formed a co-op with another breeder and has been artificially inseminating the cows for the last three years.