Bits and pieces this week...first off, I'm a very poor shot. Whether
I use a shotgun or Howitzer, you can rest assured I'm not going to injure anyone
or be arrested for property damage – I can't hit the broadside of a barn! HOWEVER...last
Wednesday, Goober and I went to Melody and John Bonds home for lunch and then we
went outside to his "Shooting Gallery". Now dear reader, I hope you're sitting
down because with a rifle and a pistol I really was a fat, male...Annie Oakley!
(Yeah Buddy!!) I surprised myself as to my accuracy (and everyone else, too!!)
Funny thing happened last week. I was on the phone to a gentleman back east
that wanted information about me to write a magazine story. I knew we were in for
a "rough" time when he kept pronouncing rodeo as Ro-Day-O...but we lumbered on.
At the end of his questions he said please send him a picture of me in my "Cowboy
Costume" for the story.........Cowboy Costume???????......Costume????? At that
point I knew it was time to "kick the dog off the porch". I said "Sir, I don't
wear "COSTUMES", no one in the west, rodeo cowboys or ranchers,
wear a "costume". We're not some crazy image of an eastern Wild West Show! Although
right here dear reader I must inject this – about 20 years ago I had
a contract in Madison, Wisconsin to announce the "Famous Holmes Rodeo". Mr. Holmes
and his family were in the tire business and were very wealthy and they had produced
a PRCA rodeo on their property for many years. I flew into Madison, rented a car
and headed for the rodeo grounds. Upon my arrival, I ran into some cowboys I knew
and in the course of our conversation one said "This is your first time to announce
this rodeo, right?" I nodded and then one said, "Just watch out for Ole George
Holmes!" "Why, why?" I said. "You'll see" and they walked away. Well, that night
as I was up in announcer's stand getting ready for the Grand Entry, I heard a heavy
"clumping and jingling" coming up the steps...Oh Lord! I ain't never!
Here was "Mr. Holmes" - all decked out in white fringed, pale green buckskins with
snow-white knee high boots with HUGE Mexican roweled spurs,
and a hat with a brim sooo big he could cause a solar eclipse....and around
his waist were 2 big Colt .45's with pearl handles! He said, "Zeb, I'll start the
show and then turn it over to you"...little did I know what "start the show" meant.
All of a sudden he screeched into the microphone, "EEE YA, YIPPE YI KAY OO!!
Are all the dogies here tonight ready for the Holmes Rodeo!!?!" At that point,
he pulled out a Colt and fired a blast and shouted "YEEE HAW!!"....I
peed my Wranglers. This wild man emptied one Colt and grabbed the other yelling
"We're gonna have fun tonight, Buckaroos!" The bareback horses had started to climb
out of the bucking chutes, some of the cowboys dove into their rigging bags with
only their butts hanging out, kids were crying an' I expected to see the Wisconsin
National Guard any minute! And then Old George says - "Here you go, Zeb, it's all
yours!"...........all mine....what dear reader could I do – the "rodeo" must
go on! I was still shaking after 3 events, and it took 'til the barrel racing for
my Wranglers to dry! And to this day, every time I hear a "EEY HAW"
I get in a fetal position.....no more eastern rodeos for me, especially if I hear
the word "COSTUME!"
Don't forget Dr-History.com! Exciting episodes of the old West!! Now in 101 countries...101!!
And not one of them has said they're offended!
God Bless America!
Our Pledge
of Allegiance:
I pledge Allegiance to the flag of Allegiance:
I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
Dear Lord: Please Bless and heal this land with your grace and power.
Help us to realize YOU are in charge as you were, as you are
now and like
you'll be in the future. Forgive us for "straying off the trail" of what's
right
and what's wrong and help us to appreciate what you've blessed us with,
the greatest Country in the world...America!
In Jesus Name.....Amen
Look up Ephesians Chapter 5 verse 1
GOD BLESS THE USA!
(Copyright Zeb Bell)
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Adios Buckaroos and Buckarettes!
God Bless and Fly the Flag!!
Zeb at the Ranch
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