Two Horses

The last few weeks have been crazy ... busy, busy, busy.  Something was always going on: spring cleaning, mowing, putting in the garden, mowing, pruning, mowing, grandkid activities, mowing, graduation parties, and more mowing.  Hardly time to catch my breath. At the end of a particularly busy day, I looked over the fence behind my …

Farm Wagon

Earlier in the summer, I was strolling around Wahoo, Nebraska, killing time waiting for my grandson's baseball game to start.  At the eastern end of Main Street is a large building for sale: "D. R. Phelps Lumber & Coal Co. 1900 - 1944". Being an interested buyer (nosy), I decided to give it a closer …

Urban Cowboy

I met this fellow in  a Mesa, Arizona.  He worked at a place that was part museum, part living history and part tourist trap.  I found this guy in one of the barns; he said he was one of the docents, but I 'spect he was closer to a real gen-U-wine cowboy than he was …