Barbed wire...or "bob woir", as it is pronounced in East Texas...has served the southwest well since it was first patented in 1867. As a relatively inexpensive method to pen cattle onto a chosen range, it took cows out of the driver's seat and allowed ranchers to control their movement (and stop "free grazing" by traveling herds).
The Tin Star is surrounded by a similar steel accoutrement. Four thousand feet of prickly loveliness that is singular in its willingness to "bite"!
Deer jump the top strand and wind it around the next strand down. Unwind that bow fiddle tight puppy and lose some hide and blood (ask me how I know)?
Tighten sagging stretches of the saber toothed one, let your tool of choice slip...and yep...more personal tissue/sinew/plasma sacrificed to the "god" of the bovine calaboose?
When the Hebrew tribes gave up their nomadic life and settled in Palestine in agricultural communities, the most important matter was the fixing of definite boundary-lines to separate the lands of the different tribes and of the families within the tribes. The importance of this is sufficiently shown in the Book of Joshua, where a careful record is made of the boundaries of the tribes and their families. No mention is made of "bob woir"...just "boundary markers".
However, Ecclesiastes 10:8 tells us that serpents delight to lurk in the crevices of such fences?
Given the ole ranch hand's number of scars, blood loss, and ripped clothes....it would be a tuff sell to convince him that dang demon fence ain't part rattlesnake!
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Retired Life
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes. (Ecclesiastes 11:9)
The ole fat boy and his child bride ventured to the land o' the gator this past week in Orlando, Florida to "experience" DISNEYWORLD, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, and the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.
Think bout walkin' from can till can't....humidity....an "wall to wall" people round ya?
LOVED IT!
Rode them "rides"....saw the "sights"...and ate/drank the good stuff in the theme parks and beyond.
Retired life is better'n good...it is GREAT for old folks what got the health and mobility to enjoy it to the max!!!
LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!
The ole fat boy and his child bride ventured to the land o' the gator this past week in Orlando, Florida to "experience" DISNEYWORLD, UNIVERSAL STUDIOS, and the KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.
Think bout walkin' from can till can't....humidity....an "wall to wall" people round ya?
LOVED IT!
Rode them "rides"....saw the "sights"...and ate/drank the good stuff in the theme parks and beyond.
Retired life is better'n good...it is GREAT for old folks what got the health and mobility to enjoy it to the max!!!
LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, April 7, 2013
The Traitor
The ole fat boy and his gorgeous child bride sashayed into "town" this morn to allow the little woman to shop for shoes (Hell....anyone with near half a brain would know that 49,000 pair of shoes ain't near enuff for a ranch lady with only TWELVE (long) shelves full of shoes in her closet already?????)
Got that "mission of podiatry mercy" done and then decided to stop at the sis/law's house to see the young nephew/niece and have a bit of country "gab".
Bein' country rural....the ranch hand left the keys in the SUV (along with the wife's purse/keys)....
Got near half way up to the porch and heard "CLICK"????
Damn traitor vehicle LOCKED its ownself (just for spite I reckon??)
Spent the next hour going back and forth between the "traitor" and the barn/workshop gitten tools and "making" tools to unlock that BAST*RD and not do damage???
SUCCESS....got the door "unlocked".....and the damn horn started beeping such as Saint Gabriel would'a been proud!
Finally figgered out the combination to silence that abomination....and then found the eee-lec-tronic computer crap would not allow the car to be started...Next chance I get, gonna kick a computer nerd in the n*ts just for the sheer joy of it??
Is it only my old butt generation...or was life simpler when "computer chips" were not involved????
Got that "mission of podiatry mercy" done and then decided to stop at the sis/law's house to see the young nephew/niece and have a bit of country "gab".
Bein' country rural....the ranch hand left the keys in the SUV (along with the wife's purse/keys)....
Got near half way up to the porch and heard "CLICK"????
Damn traitor vehicle LOCKED its ownself (just for spite I reckon??)
Spent the next hour going back and forth between the "traitor" and the barn/workshop gitten tools and "making" tools to unlock that BAST*RD and not do damage???
SUCCESS....got the door "unlocked".....and the damn horn started beeping such as Saint Gabriel would'a been proud!
Finally figgered out the combination to silence that abomination....and then found the eee-lec-tronic computer crap would not allow the car to be started...Next chance I get, gonna kick a computer nerd in the n*ts just for the sheer joy of it??
Is it only my old butt generation...or was life simpler when "computer chips" were not involved????
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Thanks to Ms. Eva
Ms. Eva creates a marvelously entertaining blog: http://www.wrestlingwithretirement.com/
It is light hearted...entertaining...and "irreverent" to the point of "giggle"!
A recent jewel concerned TGIF ("Thank God it is Friday") and the totally irrelevant perspective of that phrase for retired folk?
The ole fat ranch hand and his child bride have multiple conversations bout....what day is this???....what day of the month??...hell...what month is this??
Such awesome bliss...To not care what "time" has to offer....To just enjoy the day...Whatever "day" it is???...is double OK!
Thank you Ms. Eva for reminding an ole retiree bout the "good" stuff of not fighting the "job" sh*t ever day....!!!!
It is light hearted...entertaining...and "irreverent" to the point of "giggle"!
A recent jewel concerned TGIF ("Thank God it is Friday") and the totally irrelevant perspective of that phrase for retired folk?
The ole fat ranch hand and his child bride have multiple conversations bout....what day is this???....what day of the month??...hell...what month is this??
Such awesome bliss...To not care what "time" has to offer....To just enjoy the day...Whatever "day" it is???...is double OK!
Thank you Ms. Eva for reminding an ole retiree bout the "good" stuff of not fighting the "job" sh*t ever day....!!!!
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