The Day Before Christmas 1978 at the Rockin MC Ranch

[Mountain Cowgirl]

The Day Before Christmas
by MC circa 1978

Snow and twenty below bring thoughts of monkeys made of brass
And dreams of spring with cattle grazing on the tall green grass
It was the day before Christmas, nothing was stirring, not even a mouse
The call of nature called number two, I hadn't yet shoveled to the old outhouse

Even though I had donned my thigh-high wool stockings with care
My mind worried and fretted, could I shovel fast and safely get there
Then all of a sudden to my eyes what should appear
But a 6-foot-high drift at the privy door, my worst fear

With vim and vigor, I shoveled like a crazy woman with no pose
Only to get inside to find the seat lid iced and froze
As I gingerly lowered my cheeks on the frozen fog
I saw no TP, nothing except the emergency Sears catalog

 

[Faster horses]

Too much information.

 

[Alaska-Rancher]

Here is how we dress for extreme cold

 

[jodywy]

In "otters Dance" Bob tells of being 17 and having evening discussion with his granddad. His Grand dad would push him. and on that rare occasion, When Bob was actually right. His grandfather acknolleged it. But the next day work for Bob was usually digging out the Outhouse.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Here is how we dress for extreme cold

I sent that on to the family