This is what I do on Cold, Hot, or Slow Days:
My office doubles as a saddle shop
Snowed Sunday,
?ÿEvery Day is a Good Day!
That is an interesting combination of work activities.?ÿ Which did you take up first, surveying or saddle making?
I was a cowpuncher before surveying, and still day work some.?ÿ Been doing some packing in the Gila Wilderness the last few years.?ÿ The work and people are similar; outside, self reliant, independent.?ÿ I grew up in NW Kansas and came south to avoid the rough winters, they really caught it there Saturday and Sunday.
My wife grew up in Cheyenne County, had her first job in Decatur County and has a brother living in Rawlins County.?ÿ We live in the SE part of Kansas so have taken 742 different routes in between through the years.?ÿ She has a niece living somewhere close to Deming, NM.
I grew up in Colby, KS, High school in Hoxie, still go back and visit. Spent some time at the Rusty Bucket in Colby, anyone who grew up in the 70's will know what the Bucket was.
Wife spent the Summer of '78 taking Organic Chemistry I and II at Colby Community College.?ÿ Spent about a month in Hoxie doing training for her new job in Extension that landed her in Oberlin for a year.?ÿ She knew about The Rusty Bucket but says she knew better than to go there.?ÿ Seems like that was when some local went nuts and climbed onto the roof of the radio station building to shoot at anyone going by.?ÿ The farm where she grew up was so close to Nebraska that their mail came from Benkelman, NE (birthplace of Ward Bond) instead of Bird City.
She has cousins that are in the rodeo bull business plus doing the announcing.
@holy-cow Yay, Ward Bond!
Every place has to have something or someone to brag on.?ÿ For Benkelman, it's Ward Bond.?ÿ For Piqua, Kansas it's Buster Keaton.?ÿ His parents were part of some traveling show that entertained the locals earlier that evening.?ÿ A trunk was used as his crib. For Lamar, Missouri, it's Harry Truman. For Oologah, Oklahoma, it's Will Rogers.?ÿ For Longton, Kansas, it's Prudence Crandall.
Do a search on any of these if they are unfamiliar to you.?ÿ Prudence may surprise you.
@holy-cow The only one I had to look up was Prudence Crandall. Wow, what a history. I grew up in Connecticut, and this is the first I've ever heard of her. Thanks! By the way, my "yay" for Ward Bond was indeed sincere; I liked him as an actor. ????
I see I screwed up, as usual.?ÿ I said Longton, but, she was in the next town over, Elk Falls.?ÿ Elk Falls also is known for being the retirement home of actor, Barry McGuire.?ÿ Met him one day while surveying down the street from his house.
@holy-cow Actor Barry McGuire, or singer Barry McGuire? ("Eve of Destruction," 1965)
This one.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570158/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm#overview
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0570158/
@holy-cow?ÿ "...Every place has to have something or someone to brag on."?ÿ
You got that right, my great grandfather is buried in the cemetery in Frontenac, Ks.?ÿ Victim of the Spanish flu.
@holy-cow Oh, that Barry McGuire. ????
Back in the olden days in that neighborhood there were lots of violin cases but darned few violins----------------if you catch my drift.