Some people would say, “There is more to life than cowboy boots.” Well, it just so happens that my life has a lot to do with cowboy boots, and I figured that out early in life.
\nIt was a hot, dry panhandle day on the ranch, and my new cowhide, suede top boots were looking good on my feet. I could hardly take my eyes from the buckskin colored boots that Grandpa Brewer had given me the day before. I wore them with my favorite dress, so I could see the pretty, brown leather, cutout designs in the boot tops.
\nI trotted out to the corral where my older teenage sisters were busy scooping out the dirty stock-tank. Not wanting to break my new boots in by walking in the corral, I jumped up on the rail fence and took on the magpie position of listening to my older sisters conversation, which I was always interested in. Being seven years old and in the prime of my life, trying to figure out what they were up to was a favorite pastime of mine. My life was pretty easy compared to theirs. They were up at daylight getting ready for a full day’s work. They had sunburns and blisters to prove it.
\nOn this workday, I was hanging out on the rail fence, admiring my pretty little boots, and listening to them talk. This particular summer day was like no other for me; I had a revelation in thought, that I still recall after 40 some odd years. The conversation was most interesting to me.
\nBarbara, being the oldest, informed Betty that she was never going to marry or have children; and she certainly was not going to live on a farm or ranch. Betty listened with interest, and added to Barbara’s wish list of wanting to live in a big city, have a maid to do all of her work, and to top it off, she was going to marry a rich man.
\nFor some reason I thought I was part of this conversation, so I piped in, while looking down at my new buckskin suede, fancy top boots and said, “Well! When I grow up, I am going to marry a cowboy and live on a ranch.” And I did. So you see, my life has everything to do with cowboy boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some people would say, “There is more to life than cowboy boots.” Well, it just so happens that my life has a lot to do with cowboy boots, and I figured that out early in life.
\nIt was a hot, dry panhandle day on the ranch, and my new cowhide, suede top boots were looking good on my feet. I could hardly take my eyes from the buckskin colored boots that Grandpa Brewer had given me the day before. I wore them with my favorite dress, so I could see the pretty, brown leather, cutout designs in the boot tops.
\nI trotted out to the corral where my older teenage sisters were busy scooping out the dirty stock-tank. Not wanting to break my new boots in by walking in the corral, I jumped up on the rail fence and took on the magpie position of listening to my older sisters conversation, [ …<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,18,17,21,20],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-the-life","tag-cowboy-boots","tag-early-in-life","tag-life-in-my-boots","tag-marry-a-cowboy","tag-prime-of-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ranchpaintings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}