musings of an outdoorsman

Remembering Those Who Have Died

This is the sight here in Darby at South Valley Veterans memorial; Our great flag flying at half-mast. It’s not that it’s flying at half-mast because it’s Veterans Day. It’s been flying like this for the last few days, since the tragedy in Uvalde Texas, where a crazed eighteen-year-old gunman

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The Hat I Wear

“Dude that’s a great looking hat.” “Yo, bro, that hat is killing it.” “That hat looks good on you.” These were some of the many comments I received when I first showed up to work wearing my hat. I guess in the land of cowboy hats and camouflage ball caps,

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The Clothes We Wear.

We had another long day on the ranch. More cowboying and cattle wrangling was on the menu for the day. For my part, it was mostly standing by for a “just in case” moment. The downtime afforded plenty of opportunities to slip down to the creek, sit and contemplate. That

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Had to Go into Hamilton, WOW!

It was a long day at the ranch. Much of the time spent was waiting around for the cattle wrangling. There weren’t too many places one could evade the rays of the sun, but there were some. I made my way down the embankment towards the thicket of woods to

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Freestone Fly shop

This isn't my Brown Trout

but I’m going to leave this royalty free image here for inspiration, until I can replace the picture with one of my own.