Rawhide

So Thursday, think it was mainly work again, which I have been encouraged (!!) to be a bit more positive about. To be fair, it's not too bad and I am getting a bit more variety now and (nearly) all the people I work with are lovely, so I should cheer the ...

... log bed, room for a desk and, most importantly, a corner of the room for a real Beaver Lodge with outside lake access for Rawhide and Jellyroll. After two nice days, except for Bogie limping again and rolling in more Bear shit, we headed back on a reverse ...

... got for his niece's dog and they have pretty much become best friends.  It's really adorable.  And she's demolished the entire rawhide when it takes his niece's boxer about a month to finish one.   We spent a lot of our visit going around ...

... colored rocks on mesas, blue sky, white and gray clouds, yellow wildflowers, reddish-brown grass. There was a historical marker - Rawhide Buttes - legend about that - white man killed Indian woman; white man given up by fellow-travelors to Indians, ...

... destination. It is here that in 1235, Kublai Khan led his invading Mongol armies to swim across the Yangtze river on inflated rawhide bags. It is also here -- at Shigu -- that the guerrilla armies of Chairman Mao Zedong crossed the fast waters of Yangtze ...

... legs tucked underneath, similar to the height of a bicycle.  To stop the rider from falling off when the camel got up, the rawhide saddle was rigged with large "horns" on each end.  I prayed my saddle would hold, as my camel Robin Hood stood up ...

... of the place.      “I raised and fed my family from the swamp,” said our white bearded, rawhide skinned guide, who looked something like a wiry, croc-hunting,  Cajun version of Santa Claus. “I brought home ...

... is the most physically demanding rodeo event with a high injury rate. Using one arm, the cowboy must hold onto the rawhide handhold of a riggin (a leather pad cinched around the horse's girth).  The rider will be disqualified for touching the animal ...

... houses, a muddy looking caravan park at the back of the pub, and a pub that looks like it’s straight from the Rawhide scene in the Blues Brothers didn’t exactly inspire us to stop and say “hi”. Reinforcing our reinforcement was ...

... sing traditional cowboy songs.  They have the most amazing voices and the show is entertaining.  Haven't heard Rawhide for years! A particularly nice moment was Grandpa singing Danny Boy with his teenage grandson while father and others ...

... taking otherwise.  I sang a made-up song called "I've got a car that has air-conditioning" and also the theme from Rawhide.  We made it to the falls where there were, improbably, 30-40 people swimming, playing, and otherwise enjoying the water. ...

... the way home, we talked with Roy about his impressions of America, as a boy, came from watching TV shows like Rawhide and F Troop. It was interesting to compare his experiences with my own childhood impressions of the British based on watching older BBC ...