44hunter45
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isms from my Pop.
"You do good work son, just not enough of it.", when we were contracting together.
"You young guys don't know anything, once is enough if you know what you're doing and take your time with it."
"What I used to do all night now takes me all night to do."
Me: "How's it going, Pop?"
Him: " I hung an anvil on it last night."
"A boner has no conscience."
"So hard a cat couldn't have scratched it. "
"Watch out for him son, your Uncle Ben is 90 pounds of dynamite with a ten inch fuse."
Pop was a working cowboy in the WWII years. He was too young to enlist. They had pulled up many of the rail lines in Central California for steel to support the war effort. He lived the dream doing roundups and driving stock to the rail heads. He had no end of cowboy sayings. I know these were not all original to him.
"It rained like a cow pissing on flat rock."
"A nice big healthy woman right there."
"All that meat and no potatoes."
"Get your heels down, boy!"
"That outfit's remuda all rode harder than a whore's heart"
"Is was colder out than a witches t@@."
"If you don't get right back on him, that sumbitch beat you."
"A mule never forgets. They will wait years to kick you in the head over something you long forgot. "
"Ain't much to it, you swing on and keep your heels down." About riding rough stock.
"Look here, I still have both my thumbs."
He is still the kindest man you will ever meet, but he has some folks he can't abide:
"As far vet's go, he was nothing but a dog and cat man." About a vet that he let talk him out of treating his own horse. It died. Pop had gained a lifetime of livestock field vet skills while cowboying.
"Put your hand over your wallet when he comes around." Some relatives, some preachers, some teachers, all politicians."
"You do good work son, just not enough of it.", when we were contracting together.
"You young guys don't know anything, once is enough if you know what you're doing and take your time with it."
"What I used to do all night now takes me all night to do."
Me: "How's it going, Pop?"
Him: " I hung an anvil on it last night."
"A boner has no conscience."
"So hard a cat couldn't have scratched it. "
"Watch out for him son, your Uncle Ben is 90 pounds of dynamite with a ten inch fuse."
Pop was a working cowboy in the WWII years. He was too young to enlist. They had pulled up many of the rail lines in Central California for steel to support the war effort. He lived the dream doing roundups and driving stock to the rail heads. He had no end of cowboy sayings. I know these were not all original to him.
"It rained like a cow pissing on flat rock."
"A nice big healthy woman right there."
"All that meat and no potatoes."
"Get your heels down, boy!"
"That outfit's remuda all rode harder than a whore's heart"
"Is was colder out than a witches t@@."
"If you don't get right back on him, that sumbitch beat you."
"A mule never forgets. They will wait years to kick you in the head over something you long forgot. "
"Ain't much to it, you swing on and keep your heels down." About riding rough stock.
"Look here, I still have both my thumbs."
He is still the kindest man you will ever meet, but he has some folks he can't abide:
"As far vet's go, he was nothing but a dog and cat man." About a vet that he let talk him out of treating his own horse. It died. Pop had gained a lifetime of livestock field vet skills while cowboying.
"Put your hand over your wallet when he comes around." Some relatives, some preachers, some teachers, all politicians."
