Filed under: Daily life in the Wild West | Tags: Cowboy the cat, Montana, New Mexico, Winter
Yes, that’s right! Cowboy the cat! His owners are leaving Montana for the winter, and they’ll be dropping him off in late November to stay with us until March or April. They winter in New Mexico every year, and they’ve said that they believe it would be too hard on a cat to go with them. For whatever their reasons, we’re happy to have him back this year! I wonder what Cowboy thinks about all this..
Filed under: Crafts and Hobbies | Tags: driftwood, pudding rocks, riverbank, rocks, striped rocks, walking stick
It’s about time to get back to one of my favorite hobbies…what I do is cruise along the rocky river banks looking for wood in cool shapes…and carry or drag them home. They are then put in “the really cool wood” pile. I mentally prioritize each piece, and the best ones will get sanded first. Lots of them will become walking sticks, but I have a few choice pieces that are destined for stardom…somewhere on the wall in our cabin. Okay, so far, I only have one on the wall, but every struggling wannabe artist has to start somewhere, right?
The next one on the list is a fantastic specimen, and I see it as an amazing hat rack. Trouble is…it will only house one hat. But what a hat rack it will be! I’m halfway done with it, and once done, I’ll put its picture in my blog.
I have a small collection of river rocks, too, and some of them are screaming to be grinded and polished down to a luster or a high shine. I wonder…could I??? I recently discovered that several of them are “pudding rocks” (or, as they say in Montana, “puddin’ rocks”)… black with white spots, basically…and apparently, they are very sought-after. I can picture a polished puddin’ rock. My real collection, though, is striped rocks. Each one has at least one stripe going thru it. Very cool…and hard to find.
