Where the buffalo roam

by chuckofish

The weekend is upon us and we have several things to celebrate including the sixth anniversary of the boy and daughter # 3 on Saturday.

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We are babysitting so that they can go out to dinner. Keep the OM and me in your thoughts and prayers!

It is also the “National Day of the Cowboy,” which they celebrate with all due respect and in cowboy style at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.

Screen Shot 2018-07-26 at 11.10.46 AM.pngI wish I was there, but since I am not, I will have to celebrate the best I can by watching cowboy movies at home this weekend.

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 I know you know who all these cowboys of the silver screen are, but in case you don’t, they are (from the top): John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Robert Preston, Viggo Mortensen, John Wayne and Montgomery Clift, Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, Alan Ladd, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, and Jimmy Stewart. Who is your favorite?

I will also take this opportunity to toast one of my favorite ancestors, John Wesley Prowers, cattleman and pioneer, who was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1963.

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Sounds like a good plan to me!

[Please say a little prayer for the wee laddie who is having some minor surgery today to fix his slightly crossed left eye.]