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oldcowboy666
74 / male
bennett, Colorado, US
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No you don't
We had some friends come by and their twenty something son who is in college on daddies dime and has a new car also bought for him was looking at my saddles and cowboy gear and some pictures of nice country with blue sky nice cows going along like they should and a bunch of happy cowboys driving them, the kid pops and says "i think i would like to be a cowboy" no you don't.
When i think of the countless hours cutting and splitting firewood, When you have peeled off your coat and shirt in 20 below weather with your arm up to the shoulder in a heifer trying to turn a calf, or hours in the shop in the cold putting a clutch in a tractor, or under a swather when it's 95 degrees in a hay field full of snakes trying to get a porcupine out of the rollers,or drying to drive a pissed off bull out of someone elses cattle, or trapped under a hay sled with a run away team hoping they don't make it to the cattle guard, or shake a mans hand and he says ooh that's just like leather. No you don't
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| January 19, 2014, 16:01 |
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sybianwatcher1
49 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: No you don't
...sounds like he needs ten years of swinging an axe, and 18 hour days haying....The leather on our face, and strength of our hands is hard earned..
Every wrinkle on your face is a hard earned battle scar.
I've had 18 to 20 year old "men" ...come here and stack hay with me...and this one year, two of them showed up wanting to be cowboys. After 3 hard days riding, we were going to stack hay for the day, and my young cowgirl said to them " Your about to get schooled in old man muscle".....they lasted 4 hours...That cowgirl and I finished the job on our own, while those Vancouver cowboys licked their wounds in the shade.
That young man you met shouldn't start with buying himself a hat and buckle, he should go buy himself a pair of elk hide work gloves.....and see in a year if they still fit his hands.
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| January 19, 2014, 17:20 |
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Re: No you don't
Maybe his dad will buy him a farm so he can watch everyone else do the work.
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| January 19, 2014, 19:48 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: No you don't
yep that's the way ya do it, and don't forget the log splitter...and I wonder why my shoulder smuck up from swinging a 15 lb sledge at a wedge .. just love red oak... oh that dam calf is stuck in there too, dry as a bone after all night. yepper
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| January 20, 2014, 02:25 |
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Freensleazy
65 / male
State of Confusion, Pennsylvania, US
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Re: No you don't
Nobody ever bought me anything. I worked for everything I have. But I'm far too pretty for that kind of life
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| January 20, 2014, 02:53 |
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Re: Re: No you don't
QUOTE (Freensleazy @ January 20, 2014, 02:53)Nobody ever bought me anything. I worked for everything I have. But I'm far too pretty for that kind of life
pretty? more like GIRLY....  with that white guitar,, and girly hands...
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| January 20, 2014, 03:32 |
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wandering5tar
53 / male
London, England, UK
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Re: No you don't
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
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| January 20, 2014, 09:13 |
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ashkats
65 / couple
crystal falls, Michigan, US
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Re: No you don't
what the hell is a sixpence?
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| January 20, 2014, 22:24 |
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sybianwatcher1
49 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Re: No you don't
QUOTE (ashkats @ January 20, 2014, 22:24)what the hell is a sixpence?
About a $1.50...give or take a Pence
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| January 20, 2014, 22:38 |
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Re: No you don't
Makes no pence to me.
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| January 21, 2014, 00:16 |
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sybianwatcher1
49 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Re: No you don't
QUOTE (Freensleazy @ January 20, 2014, 02:53)Nobody ever bought me anything. I worked for everything I have. But I'm far too pretty for that kind of life
Looks don't have a thing to do with it...it's all attitude and determination.
You'd do fine around here, but if you and I got working together, we'd most likely have the hangover effect to sweat thru every morning.
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| January 21, 2014, 01:17 |
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oldcowboy666
74 / male
bennett, Colorado, US
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Re: No you don't
Good one
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| January 21, 2014, 02:51 |
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wandering5tar
53 / male
London, England, UK
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Re: Re: No you don't
QUOTE (ashkats @ January 20, 2014, 22:24)what the hell is a sixpence?
I refer you to the classic British Musical Comedy, Half A Sixpence.
I was taken to see this as a 5 year old and at the end my parents asked me what I thought of it. I pondered for a moment and then replied that I was a bit disappointed. Expecting some profound arts criticism they asked why and I replied that I wanted to know which way the sixpence had been cut in half...
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| January 21, 2014, 14:39 |
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wandering5tar
53 / male
London, England, UK
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Re: Re: Re: No you don't
QUOTE (sybianwatcher1 @ January 21, 2014, 01:17) QUOTE (Freensleazy @ January 20, 2014, 02:53)Nobody ever bought me anything. I worked for everything I have. But I'm far too pretty for that kind of life
Looks don't have a thing to do with it...it's all attitude and determination.
You'd do fine around here, but if you and I got working together, we'd most likely have the hangover effect to sweat thru every morning.
Don't believe a word of it Free! With your looks it would only be hours before Brokeback Mountain was playing and those cowboy chaps were gathering dust on the floor...
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| January 21, 2014, 14:41 |
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sybianwatcher1
49 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: No you don't
Long live the Queen.
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| January 21, 2014, 14:42 |
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Re: No you don't
QUOTE (oldcowboy666 @ January 19, 2014, 16:01) We had some friends come by and their twenty something son who is in college on daddies dime and has a new car also bought for him was looking at my saddles and cowboy gear and some pictures of nice country with blue sky nice cows going along like they should and a bunch of happy cowboys driving them, the kid pops and says "i think i would like to be a cowboy" no you don't.
When i think of the countless hours cutting and splitting firewood, When you have peeled off your coat and shirt in 20 below weather with your arm up to the shoulder in a heifer trying to turn a calf, or hours in the shop in the cold putting a clutch in a tractor, or under a swather when it's 95 degrees in a hay field full of snakes trying to get a porcupine out of the rollers,or drying to drive a pissed off bull out of someone elses cattle, or trapped under a hay sled with a run away team hoping they don't make it to the cattle guard, or shake a mans hand and he says ooh that's just like leather. No you don't
With that kid's age and background, he probably meant cosplay anyway...
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| January 21, 2014, 14:43 |
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sybianwatcher1
49 / male
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Re: Re: Re: Re: No you don't
QUOTE (wandering5tar @ January 21, 2014, 14:41) QUOTE (sybianwatcher1 @ January 21, 2014, 01:17) QUOTE (Freensleazy @ January 20, 2014, 02:53)Nobody ever bought me anything. I worked for everything I have. But I'm far too pretty for that kind of life
Looks don't have a thing to do with it...it's all attitude and determination.
You'd do fine around here, but if you and I got working together, we'd most likely have the hangover effect to sweat thru every morning.
Don't believe a word of it Free! With your looks it would only be hours before Brokeback Mountain was playing and those cowboy chaps were gathering dust on the floor...
I still say... " Your only gay if you push back......."
I can't believe I just said that.
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| January 21, 2014, 14:44 |
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