Forty Rod SASS 3935

Parade dress? Semper fi, my brothers.

Back when I was still drinking I was never alone. I always had a bottle with me.

Now where did you get that phrase? It was one of my Dad's sayings and it's been in my "quiver" of sayings for close to 75 years. Glad you kept it alive.

Pussy willow. I didn't see any others.

If I had a pet camel I'd have to name it Hey Jolly ( our soldiers' variation of Haji Ali ) after the first camel wrangler in Arizona when Abe Lincoln brought a bunch of "Hawmps'"over here to use for desert mounts.

You need to enroll Tennessee Stud and Blackwater.

HA HA! Thank you.

Just because. So there!

I notice with amazement the fantastically huge numbers of cars there are on that highway. NOT!

Come on up. I'll take you to lunch and we can go out and I'll introduce you to David. We may get lucky and his wife, Rachel , (a pleasure in her own right) might be there, too ...or, if you've been really good, God might arrange for his daughter Abby to be there. That kid alone is worth a trip there.

Why?

Damn. I didn't know that. It's been a couple of years since I went in there, but the sign is still up. I'll treasure the few pieces she did for me. Is Kelly Laster still in business? He did some really good engraving work for me but that's also a few years back.

Okay, so where did it go?

You mean like a birth certificate.? I take that back. If you have one, at all you beat Obama!

Somebody ought to paste that picture on a rum bottle.

THAT EARNED YOU A DRINK ON ME. Bottles, set the man up. Thanks, Mo. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." I sometimes wonder why it has been so often wasted in TV and radio pukes....and politicians....and newspaper columnists...and too many teachers and professors. Mine wasn't wasted. It just faded away.

Also I am greatly offended by subtitles telling what is being said and mis-pronouncing and / or misspelling half the words (including proper names of well-known people, places and things.) Some of this stuff should be grounds for hanging.

Two friends and I decided to go "rodeoing" and bought a 1936 Packard hearse for $450.00 This was in 1963 IIRC. It was nowhere as big and elaborate as this rig, it was big enough for three "cowboys", all their gear and tackle, clothes and other essentials....and it ran very well for what it was. We rigged a homegrown top rack for the saddles and tack, had places to hang clothes, store food and cookware, a small fridge (which never quite worked as well as we wanted, chemical toilet, and water enough for about day....if you didn't mind washing in cold water. We used it for one season and one of the guys bought the other two of us out, "improved" it into a camper, and drove it for at least six more years. By that time it had a new engine, transmission, interior, and other things and didn't look as classy as it did while we were all together. Don't know what became of it. The guys and the Packard, and all the rest just faded away into the time tunnel we call life.

I watch almost every one that is posted, at least part of them. Too many have some half wit trying to become famous "narrating" the whole thing and saying NOTHING worthwhile. I tried watching some with the sound of and it's much better, BUT they keep playing the same thing over and over and over again.

....that has tiny cotton-looking "flowers"? We had them all over the valley when we moved to Utah in 1951 and Dad still had some by the garage the last time I was there in 2001. Seems they were very hardy....surviving even -30 f weather and hundred degree summers....and attractive, but I can't find what I'm looking for on the net. Any horticulturist out there. (There must be. Every other skill, arts, food, costume, language, historical, entertainment, and other question thing turns up someone really quickly.)

This brings to mind Mo Lasses's Cowboy Campfire Cookbook. I'd like to get my hands on a few more of those. They made great gifts and my own copy is getting bent, battered, stained, dog-eared, grease covered, and just plain worn out. Hasn't been many weeks I haven't used it at least once and usually a few more times

We have SMOG and it was inevitable that we'd move on to SPOG.

My gunsmith for ten years (ever since we moved to Arizona) has been David Fink. He was working out of a shop in his back yard in Chino Valley about 17 miles away, and picked up and delivered guns, and did amazingly good work. Then he moved from Chino Valley to Pauldin, maybe 10 miles further away and took over the gunsmithery at Gunsight Academy (Jeff Cooper's baby.) He doesn't pick up nor deliver guns any more and his prices have gone up. He's added equipment, master smiths in different areas of expertise, and has learned new skills in all fields of smithing. He's also made such a good name that he has a massive backlog, mostly for combat and specialty guns, BUT HE STILL DOES GREAT WORK on cowboy guns, collector pieces and everyday "let's go have fun" and sporting guns, even restorations on Grandpa's old "meat-in-the-pot" guns. He introduced me to Rachel Wells, an internationally known and respected engraver. She's amazing and has pictures of her work that will melt your heart and burn you brain. You'll have to wait for either one of them, but I'm here to tell you he and Rachel are both worth the time and cost for their work. I don't have a lot of their finer work, but what I have is top of the line. Know what else? Both are wonderful, friendly, and enjoyable folks to be around.

Not in my house it ain't. 'Bout the only thing I hate worse than so-called pirate talk (not counting idiots running or running for office) is the Happy Birthday To You song. Anyone using either one will be cursed by me and some body parts that they or may not still be using will begin to wither and fall off. You been warned.

Everybody? BULL!