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There’s a union for teamster and waiter, There’s a union for cabman and cook, There’s a union for hobo and preacher, And one for detective and crook.There’s a union for blacksmith and painter, There is one for the printer, of course; But where would you go in this realm of woe, To discover a guildRead more

A cowboys life is a weary dreary life Some people think it free from all care Its rounding up cattle from morning to night On the lone prairie so drear When the spring work comes in then our troubles begin The weather being fierce and cold We get almost froze with the water on ourRead more

The bawl of a steer To a cowboy’s ear Is music of sweetest strain; And the yelping notes Of the gray coyotes To him are a glad refrain. And his jolly songs Speed him along As he thinks of the little gal With golden hair Who is waiting there At the bars of the homeRead more

Windy Bill was a Texas man, Well, he could rope, you bet; Talk of the steer he could n’t tie down Had n’t sorter been born yet; The boys they knew of an old black steer, A sort of an old outlaw, Who ran down in the bottom Just at the foot of a rockyRead more

Planning the Pole Barn Framing Planning the pole barn framing seemed simple but there were several details that had to be planned for everything to come together nicely.  Some of the key elements were: Getting the posts in the right spot on the concrete The metal siding (partly done at the foundation planning stage) The garage door,Read more

Ten thousand cattle straying, They quit my range and travell’d away, And it’s “sons-of-guns” is what I say, I am dead broke, dead broke this day. Dead broke. Ten thousand cattle straying, They quit my range and travell’d away, And it’s “sons-of-guns” is what I say, I am dead broke, dead broke this day. DeadRead more

I have seen them ride the ponies In the sage-brush and the bad land; I have seen them buck and beller And turn almost inside out, While the rider sat the saddle And watched each snaky motion, While the others yelled “Stay with him” As loud as they could shout. And often on the round-upRead more

Oh, slow up, dogies, quit your roving round, You have wandered and tramped all over the ground; Oh, graze along, dogies, and feed kinda slow, And don’t forever be on the go,— Oh, move slow, dogies, move slow. I have circle-herded, trail-herded, night-herded, and cross-herded, too, But to keep you together that’s what I can’tRead more

‘Twas a mining town called Golden Gulch While the West was yet untamed. There two bad men met, made a bet, And the winnings never claimed. The boys had ridden into town One payday afternoon To line the bar at the Lucky Star, Which was Dandy Ran’s saloon. Now the dandy was an onry cussRead more

Planning A Pole Barn Shed (an introduction) Hopefully if you are planning on designing and building a pole barn shed yourself this series of posts will help you avoid the same mistakes I made.  As a note the planning of each step was an iterative process of designing then redesigning till I got to the finalRead more