The First Post of a Fresh Blog...
Since pretty much ever'thing I've done the past couple of years has carved out such a huge change to the life I'm living I thought it proper to create a Fresh Blog that is more fitting to the road...
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Every Day a Little Progress
Was walking through the "local" Family Dollar the other day picking up a few cheap odds 'n ends, razors, paper plates, yadda yadda... Been wanting for a bit, a few of those clip bars that hold papers...
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Wrong Again Snowflake. There is No Plan! - Your Failures Belong to YOU!
I've seen it over and over. Eventually I can't keep quiet in the face of the nonsense. This seems like a good and proper time of year to expose that wrong way of thinking with another episode of Cowboy...
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Chop, Grub and Keep Moving
Been working inside and out. A few hours at the desk and a hunger for some strong hours outside. A couple rainy days and one with snow stored up some impatience to get on with it. Have done a lot of...
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Horses and More Pieces of the "Doin's" Around Winter Camp
Miss Cora is mostly standing in the Round Pen getting fat and wanting attention... which she gets about four times a day...*Miss Cora* Talked to the guy yesterday that I'm gonna have top her off for...
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Chilly Nights and Mexican Backhoes...
Haven't really had any tough cold nights this winter. Quite a bit of rain, but little bitter cold... even by Arizona standards. Still, I had some difficulty gettin' the backhoe to fire up this...
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A Restless Nomad I Will Ever Be
Reset my camp today. Turned the rig 'bout 90° putting the door toward the morning sun. Didnt really think about it before I did it... but that's the way a lot of tribes set their camps__always with...
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Sunrises, sunsets... and More Horse Feed...
*Sunrise over the Chiricahaus* A couple of folks made comments on feed for the road on the last post... There's lots of issues dealing with horses on the road. The two most critical, to my mind being...
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Well, What a Week That was...
It got so tumbled up not sure which was first. I think it was the battery box... Was so windy and stormy had to work in bits and spurts trying to get a battery box built so I can expand the battery...
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Horses and Dogs, Batteries and Kaks,
Checked up on Cora the other day. She'd come along well enough to be hauled to work in the Stockyards a bit moving cattle. She's coming along fine... mostly. Turns out she puffed up a leg there working...
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They Make a Good Fit
Filled one of the truck bins this morning for the first time. I thought I had it calculated pretty close - and I was right!Four 80# sacks of Alfalfa pellets fit in a bin. That's 640# of feed on the...
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Back Where I Always Belonged
*Arizona Winter Camp Sunset* This has been one of those "Bow your head grit your teeth and ride into the wind" deals for sure. I stepped out to make some big changes more than two years ago. Every time...
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This Road That is Leading Me Home
It's been 98% fine, and the 2% not so has actually been good.Fact is it's required me to reach down for a lot of long unused memories to read this horse....Takes some time to reawaken those things!A...
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Books and Buckskins
In between jogs across the desert I've managed to get my next story published. for my Horses is now available for Pre-order purchase at Amazon and also in the Smashwords network. The book will be...
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Chasing the Wind and The Road Leads Me On...
Seems like I'm never gonna figure out just what it is I'm gonna be when I grow up... Cowboy, Soldier, Writer, Leather Carver... Drifter... I keep running at it but when you've a bad case of AADD...
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Arizona and Montana are Where My Heart Lives...
Whittled a project the last day before I hauled out. Some time back I built the first evolution of a braiding stand. Trouble with it was that it was just too bulky a set up for my cramped and limited...
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Missouri Mud
Been raining for 12 hours or so. Poor Cora is standing in a sea of mud down in the round pen.Same story since I got here. For weeks and weeks the Sun has come out and sets to drying things out - 'bout...
View ArticleNot Much New... Still Running Against the Wind...
Been I believe the longest time I've gone without a post since I started blogging back in 2006 or so... Truth be known, there wasn't a lot more than just day to day livin' goin' on to write about. And...
View ArticleYa'll May Be Right!
... and I DID fall on my head one too many times... But when I crash and burn that very last time I think all will be able to agree that it wasn't for lack of trying! Working on those decisions I...
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The Sky Above and the Stones Below
This old cowboy has been running uphill packing baggage he should long ago have set down.I sure wish life was more like the stock market... you know, that selling short setup... where you can somehow...
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Bet Ya'll Thought I'd Turned Up My Toes and They Planted Me...
Well... Not yet!There's lots of ways to say it; Never Quit. Never give up the Fight. Never die easy. It's time to separate the Cowboys from the men...Whatever. Point is; Time to Bow my head. Grit my...
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My neck is sore from... Watching Out For Meteors!
It seems to have started last September soon after my last post.That big old truck I'd been struggling to rehab continually produced new challenges. Spell that; fresh challenges to my anemic...
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A Good Start on a Resurrection
The first sunrise is the morning I started work. The sunrise with the tree is the Texas panhandle the morning after the tornadoes. I'd already been back on the road nearly 3 hours... and my first...
View ArticleTime to Cowboy Up! And Start Digging In!
Been a few months of sweat and effort living in the "real world" again. I'm not wired for a "Town" job... and all that involves.I've been Working hard to collect the beans to carve out my bubble in...
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