Good trip to “Where the Hell is Maybell, CO” for the
Sombrero Horse Drive.
The header photo is some of my cousins talking to a
Maybell area rancher they knew growing up in Maybell. He is a real cowboy that
passes out taffy to the crowds and keeps a bottle of blackberry brandy in a
saddle bag.
The weather was great but winter came in again Sunday
night. The first 150 miles back to the Front Range was a challenge. Sisty had
it much worse as she left this morning from Steamboat Springs to investigate a fatally
accident in Canon City. Horrible roads all the way there.
Stopped to see old rancher friends in Steamboat Springs.
My age, and damned they look old. They are the kind of friends you don’t see
for years and when you get together it was like we saw each other last week. As
ranchers, wolves were on their minds.
Their son and daughter-in-law now run the ranch and raise
Kargal Sheppard Dogs as a sideline. One is 200 lbs. My friends are grateful for
these dogs. One has kept a 400 lb bear away from the ranch. The bear responded
by taking a dump in the driveway.
Banner spent the four days at my sister’s home. He seemed
pleased to see me.
As always, YMMV
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Banner is looking quite gray these days. Must be a gray hair for each treat? :)
The little town where my parents live has a cattle drive through the middle of town every year. Still.
Glad the trip went well, and I'm sure Banner was happy to get 'treats'...LOL
Good to hear you're back OK and enjoyed the trip.
Luna's gonna go bonkers Tuesday when SLW gets back from a week in "N'Orleans".
Ami
Is it a staged event or just ranchers moving their cattle?
Old NFO
There were several days worth of treats scattered in the hall.
DrJim
More concerned for Sisty. She is home safe. There is no easy way from Steamboat to Canyon City and the weather was bad. Banner came home and has barley moved off the couch.
Critters can let you know what they think about you if they put their minds to it. A few years ago, my wife took the broom to a racoon that was cleaning out the bird feeder and it pooped on the patio steps every night for a few days.
My response to her outrage was, "Well, you started it."
W.W.W
That will larn ya!
The guardrails the Founders put in the Constitution to protect America from the well-known and inevitable decline of a democracy still require a moral and thoughtful citizenry. We have neither. Look at this list of reasons given for the decline of the Roman republic:
There Was An Imbalance Of Power Between The Aristocracy And The Rest Of Society
They Broke Into Factions Who Prioritized Their Own Aims Over Their Republic
Ancient Democracies Limited Voting To Select Citizens
Demagogues Were Able To Easily Persuade A Misled Populace
Political Campaigns Were Expensive And Mired In Controversy
Certain Individuals Had Their Own Personal Military
Senators Stalled Vital Legislation With Filibusters
Senators Began Using Violence To Get Rid Of Political Adversaries
Participation In Long-Running Wars Caused Regional Instability
Autocratic Powers Rigged Democratic Systems To Put Themselves In Power
All People Were Free To Live As They Pleased
As the Bible says, there is nothing new under the sun. The Founders tried to protect against the inevitable. They understood how fragile a democracy is and how dependent it is on the character of the citizens.
John Adams stated it this way, “Public virtue cannot exist in a Nation without private Virtue, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.
George Washington said: “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,”[6] and “Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.”
Benjamin Franklin said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”
James Madison stated: “To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical [imaginary] idea.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and … their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice … These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.”
Samuel Adams said: “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue.”
Patrick Henry stated that: “A vitiated [impure] state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.”
John Adams stated: “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
And I say that anyone who give any Credibility to an Idiotic Progressive, is as Stupid as they are.
I guess there is something cool about being witness to this shit show as it happens, but it's actually terrifying for those of us with children.
Brrrr. I flew out of Calgary a week or so ago and learned it'd snowed the day after I left. Texas seems tropical!
This week has continued with moisture and wind. April showers brings May mud!
Where are ALL of you Angry Jewish Americans? And where are all of you Angry NONE- Jewish Americans?
Where are you guys? Everyone seems to be so silent ! And that is NOT is normal behavior for us Americans!. This is not only just a Jewish issue, but an American issue. It's not who we are! We do not just stand by like Zombies and say nothing when the President is acting like a Commie. There is a movement that is radicalizing our youth and these radicals go will go after the Jews to start but if history have ever taught you anything, you know it never ends with just us
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