Horsewright Knives and Leather

[MarbReds]

Thanks . I like the idea too.

@The Zieg Ah my friend a long story there. Why did we quit making wildrags? Probably foremost was that the silk we were famous for, the Sand Washed silk had stopped being made. This was a velvety feeling lil heavier silk than normal that was ideal for wildrags. We often heard I've been wearing them my entire life and these are the best I've ever had. So remember that large tsunami some years back that killed all those people? Well it killed all the silkworms too. So now ya have a finite amount of silk worms do you make silk for $75 a yard (interior decorating, drapes etc) or do you make this sandwashed silk that we were getting wholesale and wheeling and dealing for $6 a yard and sometimes less. Imagine Tijuana in Hebrew and Arabic and you got the LA Garment District. It's rampaging capitalism at its finest. So they stopped making the silk we were using and never for some reason started back up. So for the last several years we were really hunting for our material. a roll here and a roll there, 10 yds here, five yards there. We went from reliably having15-20 different colors to scrounging what we could.. Lack of silk was the main reason. Nichole always hated going down there. She just didn't want to. It's DIRTY and dangerous and just plain bad. It was near Skidrow and that was expanding and that was before things got really bad there. I was once, (while in a wheelchair recovering from a surgery), almost attacked by a whacked out homeless guy while sitting in front of one of the shops cause the wheelchair wouldn't fit inside the jumbleness of most of those shops. It was bad enough that my hand was on that Smith Mod 36 in my pocket. We haven't been down there since before Covid but I've seen pics and it's gone from really, really bad to really worse. So we don't make wildrags anymore. We still get calls rather often asking for more of the Sandwashed wildrags.




Yes I do take what I call Special Orders. Often times if you are looking for something specific that's the best way to go. Just give me a call or email or DM here. I like to do several Special Orders in each batch as well as some for In Stock to be sold through our website. Looking for something specific could be months till I get around to it again, ya just never know. On the current batch I had so many Special Orders I broke them up, based on date, into two batches.



That's great that ya got to catch up with an old friend! I too have a good friend that was severely injured in a wreck. He fell and got rolled on. Busted him up pretty bad internally. Glad your friend was able to pull through. This lil brown roan mare had just dropped me on my head right before this pic, I'm still dazed here. Fortunately I did land on my head so no damage done. Two cows were fighting and slammed into that wall behind us. No buck in her but she spooked and spun around 270 degrees. I made 180 degrees and come off. Ya know I'd of told ya the horse didn't live that could turn faster than I can ride. But I found her.

She did it to me three times over a few months. Nichole liked to use her for sorting calves from cows as she was a catty lil thing, Mecum Blue on the topside and Docs Hickory on the bottom:

Traded her straight across with my son Logan, for this bay gelding on the right. Just as athletic but not as explosively over reactive. Its worked out well for the old guy. Lil Sis is now one of the top horses in my son's string.

Ya know we talk a lot about retention in the sheath and I have tortured tested several personally. I can personally attest that when I took these unanticipated aerial dismounts that I lost neither my knife or my pistol!.

That's a nice rag, she did a good job serging that rag! Some buckaroos tie a knot in the horse's tail. This is not just decoration. If a guy were to get rimfired, tying the horse's tail in a knot allows the rope to fall free. Its the same knot as the Buckaroo Square knot only its reversed and backwards if that makes sense. I can't tie it but Logan can and Nichole can if she studies on it for a while.

Thanks very much for the info. I believe I will send you a DM for a "special order" if you are able to take another on.

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks very much for the info. I believe I will send you a DM for a "special order" if you are able to take another on.

Yes sir I am.

 

[RLB0414]

Thanks . I like the idea too.

@The Zieg Ah my friend a long story there. Why did we quit making wildrags? Probably foremost was that the silk we were famous for, the Sand Washed silk had stopped being made. This was a velvety feeling lil heavier silk than normal that was ideal for wildrags. We often heard I've been wearing them my entire life and these are the best I've ever had. So remember that large tsunami some years back that killed all those people? Well it killed all the silkworms too. So now ya have a finite amount of silk worms do you make silk for $75 a yard (interior decorating, drapes etc) or do you make this sandwashed silk that we were getting wholesale and wheeling and dealing for $6 a yard and sometimes less. Imagine Tijuana in Hebrew and Arabic and you got the LA Garment District. It's rampaging capitalism at its finest. So they stopped making the silk we were using and never for some reason started back up. So for the last several years we were really hunting for our material. a roll here and a roll there, 10 yds here, five yards there. We went from reliably having15-20 different colors to scrounging what we could.. Lack of silk was the main reason. Nichole always hated going down there. She just didn't want to. It's DIRTY and dangerous and just plain bad. It was near Skidrow and that was expanding and that was before things got really bad there. I was once, (while in a wheelchair recovering from a surgery), almost attacked by a whacked out homeless guy while sitting in front of one of the shops cause the wheelchair wouldn't fit inside the jumbleness of most of those shops. It was bad enough that my hand was on that Smith Mod 36 in my pocket. We haven't been down there since before Covid but I've seen pics and it's gone from really, really bad to really worse. So we don't make wildrags anymore. We still get calls rather often asking for more of the Sandwashed wildrags.




Yes I do take what I call Special Orders. Often times if you are looking for something specific that's the best way to go. Just give me a call or email or DM here. I like to do several Special Orders in each batch as well as some for In Stock to be sold through our website. Looking for something specific could be months till I get around to it again, ya just never know. On the current batch I had so many Special Orders I broke them up, based on date, into two batches.



That's great that ya got to catch up with an old friend! I too have a good friend that was severely injured in a wreck. He fell and got rolled on. Busted him up pretty bad internally. Glad your friend was able to pull through. This lil brown roan mare had just dropped me on my head right before this pic, I'm still dazed here. Fortunately I did land on my head so no damage done. Two cows were fighting and slammed into that wall behind us. No buck in her but she spooked and spun around 270 degrees. I made 180 degrees and come off. Ya know I'd of told ya the horse didn't live that could turn faster than I can ride. But I found her.

She did it to me three times over a few months. Nichole liked to use her for sorting calves from cows as she was a catty lil thing, Mecum Blue on the topside and Docs Hickory on the bottom:

Traded her straight across with my son Logan, for this bay gelding on the right. Just as athletic but not as explosively over reactive. Its worked out well for the old guy. Lil Sis is now one of the top horses in my son's string.

Ya know we talk a lot about retention in the sheath and I have tortured tested several personally. I can personally attest that when I took these unanticipated aerial dismounts that I lost neither my knife or my pistol!.

That's a nice rag, she did a good job serging that rag! Some buckaroos tie a knot in the horse's tail. This is not just decoration. If a guy were to get rimfired, tying the horse's tail in a knot allows the rope to fall free. Its the same knot as the Buckaroo Square knot only its reversed and backwards if that makes sense. I can't tie it but Logan can and Nichole can if she studies on it for a while.

Beautiful horses sir.
I can only imagine how bad that district in LA was and is. I certainly understand stopping the making of the rags.

 

[Horsewright]

Dave sure enjoying your stories and pics!
To bad you can't get the sand washed silk you like anymore. I'd sure like one of your wildrags!
I spent a lot of my young life working with cattle for stockman, ranchers, feedlots and drilling oil wells. When I tell people I got hurt more by cattle than the drilling rig they are shocked. Someone recently asked me about those days and I said to make a long story short go listen to Chris Ledoux song what ya going to do with a cowboy and that will give you the idea.

Or his song You Just Can't See Him From the Road! Well worth a listen. Just got a pic of three bottles of Just Ledeoux It whiskey a friend picked up in Wyoming, last night.

Course around here we tend towards Dave Stamey. Speaking of trades. We had Dave here at the house for a private concert for Nichole's 50th birthday a couple years back. It was complete surprise for Nichole she had no idea he was coming for her birthday. Interestingly when we were setting up the deal (our daughter) did most of the negotiations, he'd heard of us and she'd worked out a deal with him that we would do some trading as part of his fee. We ended up trading a knife, a travel bag and I made him a holster. I wanna say it was this Coyote with Ironwood:

But not a hundred percent sure as it's been a couple of years. Nichole makes the Travel Bags and it was one of these:

The first Nichole knew of him being here was him ringing the door bell. She answered the door and there he was. Funny thing was she was in the kitchen with a couple of friends and listening to him. Bam there he is at the door. Course he was carrying a Case Trapper in a belt sheath on his right hip. Wasn't one of our belt sheaths but hey. There ya can see it just next to his guitar:

Kinda funny deal but the guy in the white shirt behind Nichole is who sent us the pic of the whiskey last night. Anyhoo a great concert in the backyard and he stayed for tacos after.

If you are unfamiliar with his music look up: The Vaquero Song. And Tonopah is another favorite of mine.

So we talked about me trading off Lil Sis to my son Logan for that bay gelding. Nichole is currently riding a half sister of Lil Sis' called Hatari, (named after the Joh Wayne movie of the same name).

So we drove out to the middle of nowhere NM to look at this filly. Once you get to nowhere ya turn right and go another ten miles and there she was. Ya guessed it did some trading for her too: So many $$s and three knives and a set of reins. Told ya trading is in cowboy DNA.

Beautiful horses sir.
I can only imagine how bad that district in LA was and is. I certainly understand stopping the making of the rags.

Thank you!

 

[Sacto]

Or his song You Just Can't See Him From the Road! Well worth a listen. Just got a pic of three bottles of Just Ledeoux It whiskey a friend picked up in Wyoming, last night.

Course around here we tend towards Dave Stamey. Speaking of trades. We had Dave here at the house for a private concert for Nichole's 50th birthday a couple years back. It was complete surprise for Nichole she had no idea he was coming for her birthday. Interestingly when we were setting up the deal (our daughter) did most of the negotiations, he'd heard of us and she'd worked out a deal with him that we would do some trading as part of his fee. We ended up trading a knife, a travel bag and I made him a holster. I wanna say it was this Coyote with Ironwood:

But not a hundred percent sure as it's been a couple of years. Nichole makes the Travel Bags and it was one of these:

The first Nichole knew of him being here was him ringing the door bell. She answered the door and there he was. Funny thing was she was in the kitchen with a couple of friends and listening to him. Bam there he is at the door. Course he was carrying a Case Trapper in a belt sheath on his right hip. Wasn't one of our belt sheaths but hey. There ya can see it just next to his guitar:

Kinda funny deal but the guy in the white shirt behind Nichole is who sent us the pic of the whiskey last night. Anyhoo a great concert in the backyard and he stayed for tacos after.

If you are unfamiliar with his music look up: The Vaquero Song. And Tonopah is another favorite of mine.

So we talked about me trading off Lil Sis to my son Logan for that bay gelding. Nichole is currently riding a half sister of Lil Sis' called Hatari, (named after the Joh Wayne movie of the same name).

So we drove out to the middle of nowhere NM to look at this filly. Once you get to nowhere ya turn right and go another ten miles and there she was. Ya guessed it did some trading for her too: So many $$s and three knives and a set of reins. Told ya trading is in cowboy DNA.

Thank you!

Awesome story, Dave, and what a great birthday surprise. So cool to see someone play in such Dave Stamey has done some private concerts up here at the county trapper’s house in his roping arena. I’ve been invited several times but never been able to make it.

Similar to Nichole opening the door and seeing Dave standing there, I went to see Tom Russell play one time and I ran into him just walking down the street by himself before the concert.

 

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Or his song You Just Can't See Him From the Road! Well worth a listen. Just got a pic of three bottles of Just Ledeoux It whiskey a friend picked up in Wyoming, last night.

Course around here we tend towards Dave Stamey. Speaking of trades. We had Dave here at the house for a private concert for Nichole's 50th birthday a couple years back. It was complete surprise for Nichole she had no idea he was coming for her birthday. Interestingly when we were setting up the deal (our daughter) did most of the negotiations, he'd heard of us and she'd worked out a deal with him that we would do some trading as part of his fee. We ended up trading a knife, a travel bag and I made him a holster. I wanna say it was this Coyote with Ironwood:

But not a hundred percent sure as it's been a couple of years. Nichole makes the Travel Bags and it was one of these:

The first Nichole knew of him being here was him ringing the door bell. She answered the door and there he was. Funny thing was she was in the kitchen with a couple of friends and listening to him. Bam there he is at the door. Course he was carrying a Case Trapper in a belt sheath on his right hip. Wasn't one of our belt sheaths but hey. There ya can see it just next to his guitar:

Kinda funny deal but the guy in the white shirt behind Nichole is who sent us the pic of the whiskey last night. Anyhoo a great concert in the backyard and he stayed for tacos after.

If you are unfamiliar with his music look up: The Vaquero Song. And Tonopah is another favorite of mine.

So we talked about me trading off Lil Sis to my son Logan for that bay gelding. Nichole is currently riding a half sister of Lil Sis' called Hatari, (named after the Joh Wayne movie of the same name).

So we drove out to the middle of nowhere NM to look at this filly. Once you get to nowhere ya turn right and go another ten miles and there she was. Ya guessed it did some trading for her too: So many $$s and three knives and a set of reins. Told ya trading is in cowboy DNA.

Thank you!

I bet Nichole was surprised opening the door and there stood Dave Stamey. What a great birthday surprise for her.
Got the Coyote in a boot sheath today

 

[MarbReds]

I bet Nichole was surprised opening the door and there stood Dave Stamey. What a great birthday surprise for her.
Got the Coyote in a boot sheath today

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I really like that boot sheath. I have ordered my first Horsewright blade based on seeing one of your posts, can't wait to see how it turns out.

 

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I really like that boot sheath. I have ordered my first Horsewright blade based on seeing one of your posts, can't wait to see how it turns out.

If you don't mind. Which knife did you order? The boot sheath is handy. I use it all the time. It'll work in yur pocket, under yur belt inside the waistline of yur breeches. Only limited by yur imagination.

 

[cudgee]

She answered the door and there he was.

He looks like Kent Rollins the Cowboy camp cook and master of all things Cast Iron.

 

[SharpBits]

Order placed!

Sadly, not for a knife yet. I got one of Nichole's notebook covers for my wife as a surprise. Someday a knife when the right one comes along at the right time.

 

[MarbReds]

If you don't mind. Which knife did you order? The boot sheath is handy. I use it all the time. It'll work in yur pocket, under yur belt inside the waistline of yur breeches. Only limited by yur imagination.

I chatted with Dave a little bit and ultimately settled on the Cowboy in AEB-L. Looking forward to putting it to good use.

 

[echoscout]

He looks like Kent Rollins the Cowboy camp cook and master of all things Cast Iron.

I put his Original Seasoning on most everything.

 

[Horsewright]

Awesome story, Dave, and what a great birthday surprise. So cool to see someone play in such Dave Stamey has done some private concerts up here at the county trapper’s house in his roping arena. I’ve been invited several times but never been able to make it.

Similar to Nichole opening the door and seeing Dave standing there, I went to see Tom Russell play one time and I ran into him just walking down the street by himself before the concert.

Yeah that would be cool too running into Tom like that. There's an event next month called The Skills of the Early California Ranchos or The Skills for short. Oct 25-27. It's at the V6 ranch in Parkfield. Some background info look up The Californio Bridlehorse Assoc, they've got info on the event.

Anyhoo I'll be competing in the Stockhorse ( rodear roping, pattern work and herdwork), class and we might be taking our booth as well. That's still kinda up in the air, but Dave Stamey will be playing Saturday night and I believe it's a free concert.

Sorry guys out of time this morning for further but I'll catch up with you soon. Heading down the hill for a cutting lesson this morning.

 

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Yeah that would be cool too running into Tom like that. There's an event next month called The Skills of the Early California Ranchos or The Skills for short. Oct 25-27. It's at the V6 ranch in Parkfield. Some background info look up The Californio Bridlehorse Assoc, they've got info on the event.

Anyhoo I'll be competing in the Stockhorse ( rodear roping, pattern work and headwork), class and we might be taking our booth as well. That's still kinda up in the air, but Dave Stamey will be playing Saturday night and I believe it's a free concert.

Sorry guys out of time this morning for further but I'll catch up with you soon. Heading down the hill for a cutting lesson this morning.

Hope your cutting lesson goes well

 

[echoscout]

Was listening to Dave Stamey Desert Winds yesterday and it reminded you of the hiking in the Arizona desert back in 06. So I'm going to be using the Cowboy with Desert Ironwood today

 

[Horsewright]

Awesome story, Dave, and what a great birthday surprise. So cool to see someone play in such Dave Stamey has done some private concerts up here at the county trapper’s house in his roping arena. I’ve been invited several times but never been able to make it.

Similar to Nichole opening the door and seeing Dave standing there, I went to see Tom Russell play one time and I ran into him just walking down the street by himself before the concert.

Was listening to Dave Stamey Desert Winds yesterday and it reminded you of the hiking in the Arizona desert back in 06. So I'm going to be using the Cowboy with Desert Ironwood today

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It was the birthday of surprises. Josh are other son, was in the Army at the time stationed in FL. He was able to come home for a few days for the party, he took a lot of the pics:

Nichole didn't know anything about Josh coming home, we played it pretty tight to the vest. His sister picked him up at the airport. she called me: 'I'm in receipt of the package". They pulled into the driveway of the house and she called: "The package is delivered." Secret squirrel stuff. We timed it so Mom and Grandma were at the store shopping for groceries. So they come in the house carrying some bags and there is Josh leaning against the kitchen counter. That was surprise #1. Surprise #2 was Dave at the front door. Surprise #3 was having a lil party. Our daughter and her friend took Nicole back into our room to help her get dressed up. She thought we had a couple more friends coming over for dinner. They were bumping the music, Dave of course, so that they wouldn't here anything. This kept her occupied while everyone was arriving. Nichole had no idea that 40-50 folks would be there. So she walked out the back door of our bedroom and there everybody was. Surprise #4 was her birthday present. I'd had a special bit (for the horse) made for her birthday. Some few years earlier well ok, 13 years earlier, she had a friend of ours that is a bit and spur maker make me a bit for my 50th. He is one of the few bitmakers that can flow silver. This is a very technical technique and most can't do it relying on inlaying instead. On the inside of my bit in flowed silver is 50. So I had a bit made for Nichole with the same:

So it was the birthday of surprises. Hard bar to attain in the future.

If you don't mind. Which knife did you order? The boot sheath is handy. I use it all the time. It'll work in yur pocket, under yur belt inside the waistline of yur breeches. Only limited by yur imagination.

Yeah those boot sheaths are very popular and really, outside of a Buckaroo Pouch the only sheath I make not for a specific knife, it seems to work with most. I have on special request made them a lil bigger and taller. My neighbor across the street likes to carry a Sonoran Hunter in one and he keeps it in the tool pocket of his Carhartt jeans. I'll make 5-10 of these at a time and so we try to keep them in stock at all times so it's ready to ship on order. Doesn't always happen though as like many things they seem to go in spurts. Won't sell any for a bit and then 5 or 6 in a row. If we run out it doesn't take too long to get some more built up. Closest thing I make to pocket sheath. My original thought on it:

I really like that boot sheath. I have ordered my first Horsewright blade based on seeing one of your posts, can't wait to see how it turns out.

Thanks for the order! Shouldn't be terrible long.

He looks like Kent Rollins the Cowboy camp cook and master of all things Cast Iron.

Funny ya mentioned Kent, I can see the resemblance. Some years ago, our son Logan and his wife were headed to the Diamond A in AZ, a huge historic ranch. Logan had hired on as a cowboy there and they had hired Katy as the wagon cook. So just like the old days she had to have breakfast ready for 8-10 cowboys at 3 o' clock in the morning and then sandwiches for lunch if they were planning a break that day to swap horses or something and then dinner when the day was done. They started so early to beat the heat. This was branding season and the ranch is so huge it's not a branding, it's several months of branding. They'd work two weeks straight and then a weekend off. What's that got to do with Kent? We and our ranching partner Steve (and he looks like Col Sanders), gave Katy, Kent's first cookbook as they were heading out. Quick lil cowboy story. Logan just prior to leaving was visiting his great uncle in the hospital. He was pretty sick and wasn't gonna be around much longer and being out on the wagon, Logan wasn't gonna be able to come back for a funeral or anything. Logan is telling him where he's going and the guy in the next bed over sits up and says: " Where you going? The Diamond A? I was there in 62 and 63!"

Order placed!

Sadly, not for a knife yet. I got one of Nichole's notebook covers for my wife as a surprise. Someday a knife when the right one comes along at the right time.

She'll love it. Those are great gifts! Thanks. We keep one here on the desk right next to the calendar to help keep track of things.

Was listening to Dave Stamey Desert Winds yesterday and it reminded you of the hiking in the Arizona desert back in 06. So I'm going to be using the Cowboy with Desert Ironwood today

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Desert Winds is a great song! Takes place not too far from here, half hour forty five minutes or so. In fact Josh and Nichole are heading up that way tomorrow to do the dirt bike thing. The cutting lesson was great btw thanks. Great patina on that Cowboy!

 

[Horsewright]

Nichole at the lesson yesterday:

 

[echoscout]

Outstanding bit you got Nichole for her 50th! One of the local feedlots I use to work at 30 + years ago. The head of maintenance had cutting horses. He competed and did well. Three of his sons were pen rides at that feedlot. I'm sitting here waiting on a package from Dave. More later.

 

[MarbReds]

It was the birthday of surprises. Josh are other son, was in the Army at the time stationed in FL. He was able to come home for a few days for the party, he took a lot of the pics:

Nichole didn't know anything about Josh coming home, we played it pretty tight to the vest. His sister picked him up at the airport. she called me: 'I'm in receipt of the package". They pulled into the driveway of the house and she called: "The package is delivered." Secret squirrel stuff. We timed it so Mom and Grandma were at the store shopping for groceries. So they come in the house carrying some bags and there is Josh leaning against the kitchen counter. That was surprise #1. Surprise #2 was Dave at the front door. Surprise #3 was having a lil party. Our daughter and her friend took Nicole back into our room to help her get dressed up. She thought we had a couple more friends coming over for dinner. They were bumping the music, Dave of course, so that they wouldn't here anything. This kept her occupied while everyone was arriving. Nichole had no idea that 40-50 folks would be there. So she walked out the back door of our bedroom and there everybody was. Surprise #4 was her birthday present. I'd had a special bit (for the horse) made for her birthday. Some few years earlier well ok, 13 years earlier, she had a friend of ours that is a bit and spur maker make me a bit for my 50th. He is one of the few bitmakers that can flow silver. This is a very technical technique and most can't do it relying on inlaying instead. On the inside of my bit in flowed silver is 50. So I had a bit made for Nichole with the same:

So it was the birthday of surprises. Hard bar to attain in the future.



Yeah those boot sheaths are very popular and really, outside of a Buckaroo Pouch the only sheath I make not for a specific knife, it seems to work with most. I have on special request made them a lil bigger and taller. My neighbor across the street likes to carry a Sonoran Hunter in one and he keeps it in the tool pocket of his Carhartt jeans. I'll make 5-10 of these at a time and so we try to keep them in stock at all times so it's ready to ship on order. Doesn't always happen though as like many things they seem to go in spurts. Won't sell any for a bit and then 5 or 6 in a row. If we run out it doesn't take too long to get some more built up. Closest thing I make to pocket sheath. My original thought on it:

Thanks for the order! Shouldn't be terrible long.



Funny ya mentioned Kent, I can see the resemblance. Some years ago, our son Logan and his wife were headed to the Diamond A in AZ, a huge historic ranch. Logan had hired on as a cowboy there and they had hired Katy as the wagon cook. So just like the old days she had to have breakfast ready for 8-10 cowboys at 3 o' clock in the morning and then sandwiches for lunch if they were planning a break that day to swap horses or something and then dinner when the day was done. They started so early to beat the heat. This was branding season and the ranch is so huge it's not a branding, it's several months of branding. They'd work two weeks straight and then a weekend off. What's that got to do with Kent? We and our ranching partner Steve (and he looks like Col Sanders), gave Katy, Kent's first cookbook as they were heading out. Quick lil cowboy story. Logan just prior to leaving was visiting his great uncle in the hospital. He was pretty sick and wasn't gonna be around much longer and being out on the wagon, Logan wasn't gonna be able to come back for a funeral or anything. Logan is telling him where he's going and the guy in the next bed over sits up and says: " Where you going? The Diamond A? I was there in 62 and 63!"


She'll love it. Those are great gifts! Thanks. We keep one here on the desk right next to the calendar to help keep track of things.


Desert Winds is a great song! Takes place not too far from here, half hour forty five minutes or so. In fact Josh and Nichole are heading up that way tomorrow to do the dirt bike thing. The cutting lesson was great btw thanks. Great patina on that Cowboy!

I'm looking forward to it, but certainly no rush. May have to acquire a boot sheath eventually too..!

 

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Package has arrived. It's a dandy