My friend Tim Zibell spent his birthday at cow camp dragging his own calves. That’s about as good as it gets. Here’s a cow camp story about Tim. We were camped with the wagon dragging for the Chambers. One morning when I got to the […]

“Isn’t that beautiful?” “Yes, it is,” my brother Keith said. We were looking across the bottoms at Crossroads near my hometown. It was just coming on daylight. The pasture kelly green with mist hanging over the treetops. Black cows grazing with little calves by side. […]

Mike has a horse he calls Whoabay. That’s because when he was breaking him he ran off…a lot. Saw boogers everywhere. Mike was riding in the feedyard when he bought him. “I rode him and nothing else for I don’t know how long,” Mike told […]

It’s calf dragging time. Every working cowboy’s favorite. Area ranches share their cowboys to brand the calves. So it’s a big get together that lasts for weeks. Good food at the wagon, good company and work we enjoy. Memories are made dragging calves. Mike and […]

Eldon Walker has passed away. In his obituary it said he wrote one of the best things in life is harness that fits. He knew harness fit. He knew working a team. For years my family threw a weekend wagon ride for friends at the […]

The best times I’ve had at women’s ranch rodeos have been at Vernon, Texas. The facility is great and the organizers are, too. My team qualified for the finals twice there, so that’s a lot of the reason I had so much fun, but aside […]

Benny Barnes said he’d read my blog if I put on a bunch of rodeo pictures. Connie still has a lot to teach me, so in the meantime I’ll tell a rodeo story. Daddy is a good bucking horse flanker. If you know anything about […]

After 20 years in the newspaper business, I learned I like writing personal columns better than anything. Who knew I could start a blog and write nothing else? So here it is. If you read my newspaper columns, welcome. If not, welcome. Here’s a story […]