COWBOYS – You Gotta Love ’em
Julie’s second book will be off the presses in time for Christmas!
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COWBOYS – You Gotta Love ’em, by Julie Carter, is full of more cowboy stories told with the same wit and humor you enjoyed in COWGIRL Sass & Savvy
If you know a cowboy, you’ll find him in this book. If you are cowboy, you’ll recognize yourself.
One section of the book is dedicated to the numerous stories about Dan the Team Roper and the humor associated with this genuine, fun-lovin’ cowboy that manages to live out his cowboy life in a simple way. Dan has become the icon of the regular guy of the roping sport, and enjoys taking all the blame and all the fame.
Horse traders, rodeo tales, and ranch-wife wit telling you the way it really is are some of the fun stories founded in real life in West.
Other stories address rural living, family reunions, hunting, holidays and many of those cowboy moments you just can’t make up.
Once again, the book is guaranteed to bring on a smile and some laughs.
Warning to husbands: Your wife will insist on reading it to you when she finds “you” in a story.
Cover photography by Lara Studdard. Cowboy "model" is Bill Angell of Lovington, New Mexico.
Excerpts from COWBOYS – You Gotta Love ’em
It's not easy being frugally cheap
Dan has his money allocated to specific categories -- this much for Copenhagen, this much for beer, this much for horse feed. Whatever is left over is all his.
His pickup and trailer rig speak of a cheap, well, okay, frugal cowboy who makes do with what he has. Last spring, Dan upgraded to a 1993 model.
The horse trailer, a single-axle one-horse, is one you have to see to believe. "Houston red" in color, as it was described to me, apparently denotes the rust because that's what it is front to back, top to bottom. It does have new reflector tape on it in lieu of lights.
Held together with baling wire, literally, you have to admire the horse brave enough to get in it.
Ranch wife 201 – 100-year dialogue
It is simple and it's predictable. The following is an upper-classman study for the ranch wife that has graduated from Ranch Wife 101, and is in the golden years of her tenure at the ranch.
When he says:
"There is nothing in this house to eat."
That suggests that the aluminum foil covering the very many dishes in the refrigerator left from yesterday's branding, are making them invisible. The same foil will not have that affect if covering a pie or cake on the counter.
"I'll get that heavy box for you - just give me a minute."
This comes with the same flexible time span as his, "We'll be right back."
"Did you open (or shut) all those gates when you moved the cattle to the back pasture this morning?"
This usually comes right after you have gotten to bed at the end of a long, long day. The guarantee is that it will make you lay awake all night and question yourself. It will also reveal that after the first 100 years of marriage, he still thinks you don't have enough sense to do things right and actually thinks you would admit to it if you didn't.
Sometimes the best cowboys are cowgirls
The first steer set the scene, scared the cowboys and reminded them "cowboy" comes in two genders. These gals had been on the road all day, starting the trip and the beer drinking at 9 a.m., with a designated driver also called, "boyfriend".
They rolled in, backed their horses out of the trailer, backed in the roping box and, more than handily, roped the fastest, dirtiest steer on the place before it got a third of the way down the arena. The gals turned the steer, stretched him out, let him up, dusted off their hands and got another beer. Just a routine moment in another day in time with no extra effort involved.
The cowboys stood in stunned amazement, appropriate reverence and quite possibly, a little fear. A priceless moment for the cowgirl world.
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COWGIRL Sass & Savvy
Cowgirl Sass & Savvy is a selection of Julie’s syndicated columns, some of them her favorites and others the favorites of her readers. Run down an alley and sorted into pens by topic, the chapters cover stories from the ranch, rodeo and ropers, rural holidays, cowboy philosophy and some just plain you-can't-make-this-stuff-up kind of cowboy tales.
For a first hand, genuine look into the lives of cowboys and the women who love them, grab a cup and sit a spell. The pages of Cowgirl Sass & Savvy will give you the chance to see it all like you have not thought to see it before.
Cover art for Cowgirl Sass & Savvy is by Gordon Snidow from his American Woman Series.
This painting is titled "If Momma Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy."
Gordon Snidow has been known as the foremost chronicler of the contemporary cowboy since 1959. He is a Charter and Emeritus member of the Cowboy Artists of America. For almost fifty years, Snidow has created and painted his own chronicle of the modern West.
See the art of Gordon Snidow: http://www.gordonsnidow.com
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