I need to hurry, the light’s almost gone Git up little gelding, we need to get along. He wasn’t taking it, feeling good in the cool So I picked up a rein to take him to school. It was just a little pitch he was […]

The best thing about social media is I get to talk to folks I might seldom or never talk to again. A lot of these people are from old rodeo days. I wish Keith was on Facebook because a lot of old memories pop up […]

I have been richly blessed with two families. The one as a happy accident of birth I was born into, and the one who took me as if I was their own. That one is the Cunninghams. We met in stages. First I met Dearl. […]

Colby Cunningham and his partner Allen Willis are building a beautiful ranch on Rose Prairie in northeast Oklahoma. We were fortunate to be asked to drag calves there last weekend. When we met to get instructions in the morning, my horse started looking sideways at […]

You’ve probably seen those ads for kits to find out what kind of blood you have in percentages. For instance 30 percent Native American, 20 percent European and so on. I’d like to have that test. It might help me figure out if any of […]

The first real daywork check I ever earned was from Ratcliff Ranch. I worked there quite a bit when it was a yearling operation. Jimmy Lowery was a full-timer living at the Blue Ribbon then and my buddy Curtis Capps was a full-time dayworker. Jimmy’s […]

There’s an old cowboy saying that you will be lucky if you own one real good horse. I’ve been richly blessed. I’ve had two. When I got to Oklahoma and started learning to daywork, I figured out real quick I needed an actual ranch horse. […]

“We had a little wagon wreck,” my friend Ron Lowery wrote. Seems he and Julie were rolling the wagon through the yard by hand to wash the mud off. I guess the septic tank cover was just worn out, because the wagon fell in… “Julie […]