I am just watching heifers and enjoying life today around here, and I got to thinking that "characters" that we all know would be a good topic. I love to hear good stories anytime, and I know others do to. So how about some stories about people in your areas, or even about yourselves, heck we all won't know who you are talking about.
I will tell about a local guy that Liberty Belle has made scant reference to. I don't know if they are all true or not, but knowing the guy, I tend to believe they are. If not, they should be. :wink:
Some background first.
This feller is now in his mid to later 40's, but describing him to people, they think he is older. He never really has grasped a lot of modern technology, but he is a pretty sharp knife at the same time. He is a master with words, and tells a great story. He has been the sort of a guy that if he needs to go somewhere he is never in any hurry to get to or from anywhere. So he uses a horse or two as one of the modes of transportation. Back when he was a younger man he went to college (I think) up in Glendive MT. And he rode his horses up there at least part of the time. This once he was in a bar of sorts and there was lots of loud music and dancing and what not, and the cops came in and broke up the party. They says, "whoever has those two horses tied up in front of the bar needs to get 'em the hell out of here now". This local guy looks up from his cardgame and nonchelantly says, as if there were horses tied up all over the place, "Is one a Bay and the other a Buckskin?" :lol:
Then more recently there were still some horses that turned wild that ranged up in the hills just west of us. The local guy decides that it should be his mission to gather these horses, by himself. It got to be kind of fall weather and damn cold at night, so he was sleeping in his bedroll in a neighors front porch. He had earlier prepared some baggies with a stew concoction he made at home. The guy whos house he was staying at asked him if he wanted to eat some breakfast with them before he set out for the days work. The "character" says, "naw, I fixed up some armpit stew at home, and I think I will just feast on that when I get hungry. It seems that when his bellybutton started rubbing on his backbone, that he would take one of these baggies with stew in it, and put it under his armpit till it got warm enough to eat. :roll: Hence "armpit stew".
I have a few more I may add later, but I would really like to hear about other origional characters in your areas.