Book features original art by
renowned
Colorado artist, Barbara East
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A memoir by Plateau Valley,
Colorado rancher, Dean Walck. Photos and
stories about 75 years of cattle
ranching near Collbran, including the
Grand Mesa, DeBeque and other areas of
Colorado. A delightful read — full of
humorous tales and observations. A must
read for anyone who dreams of or
actually follows an old cow
for a living. Great gift idea.
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DWM
Price: $30.00
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Before the Time of Paper Diapers
When we were first married we lived in a house without
water. We did have running water – you
took two buckets and ran to the ditch to
fill them and then ran back to the
house. We had a wood and a coal stove so
you carried fuel in and ashes out. We
had two boys real fast so we had two in
diapers at the same time. Roylee had to
wash cloth diapers the hard way. Now
they call them baby bombers. There is a
reason for all this B.S. -- you’ll
understand why Roylee was so mad when
you hear the rest of the story.
I always rode a horse to irrigate.
I had been out quite a while so I
stopped by the house to get a drink.
There was a ditch near the |
house with a lot of grass on the
bank. So instead of tying up my horse, I
just dropped the reins so he could
graze. Roylee had just finished washing
three dozen diapers and she had
hung them on the clothes
line that crossed the ditch. We were in
the house when we heard a hell of a
racket. The horse had grazed under the
clothesline and caught the clothesline
on the saddle horn.
I hope you can guess what kind of a wreck
this caused. The horse went through and
over five fences and believe it or not,
he didn’t cut himself bad, but he sure
raised hell with the diapers. Roylee
wasn’t a happy camper and after that the
horse didn’t even like you to blow your
nose with a handkerchief while you were
on him.
Excerpt from book
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