Made in China --- NOT

Just a quick blog posting to bring me up-to-date on the happenings around our McKuster Ranch life this past week.

Last Wednesday for the second time in as many Wednesdays, Kittee and I made an evening trip to Walla Walla to be part of the organizing of a new fly fishing club there. The week before our meeting was an interested parties gathering, to "test the waters" of Walla Walla for a fly fishing club. With 11 folks at that meeting we voted to do it again this past Wednesday and discuss organization of a FFF fishing club. We are now on our way to fishing/working together, and calling our group the Walla² Fly Fishers.

March's view of our Walla² River canyon

Last week we were in the throws of March’s winter the early part of the week. Monday we must have had a dozen March snow squalls/ sun breaks come through Milton-Freewater, while the temperature remained in the 40’s. Middle of the week I came home and had a most pleasant late winter's afternoon with horses as I opened our #1 pasture for the first time this year.

Everyone was happy to have the change of scenery.

That same afternoon after messing around with horses, brushing, and picking hooves, I came around to the front of the house to do something and found Kittee had gotten home early. Coming into the house there was no Kittee to be found, so I started calling… Kittee, Kittee, Kittee. No answer. I walked out the backdoor and found Kittee coming from the barn wearing a new pair of fine crafted working chinks. WOW!!!

Here is a picture of Kittee in her new chinks with winterized Rosey.

These were not your everyday working chinks. No way. These chinks had been crafted by a fine leather craftsman in Pendleton, not in China. A leather craftsman that Kittee is working with and he offered to pay her part of her dues with this work of art. Even though there is NO price tag on these chinks –that once hung in the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame as a work of art – she accepted them.

With only a day and a half of almost springlike weather this past week; most of our activities were of the indoor nature. Saturday evening we spent the evening with one of our horsey groups in Walla².

Yep, we did an "early" St. Pat’s Day spaghetti dinner with Kittee and Bob as part of the evening’s entertainment.

We stayed out way past our bedtime for this "early" celebration. Yawn - yawn

Not often do I get caught in front of the camera, but this night I did.












Sunday, was a day of rest and doing cleanup / organizing around Custer Law Office. We got back home in time to take care of horses, have a bowl of soup, and a movie.

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Just a note if you or any horsey friends might wish to have some custom leather work done, we will invite you to contact Stacy for fine leather work ---
NOT made in China.

I hope from this pictures you can see the detail of this craftsmanship. There are three layers of leather --- tan, red, and the multi-colored embossed layer of leaves/ buck'n bronc.

Anyone there interested in having a pair of working / riding chinks -kinda- like these?

Kittee can put you in touch with Stacey to get-er-done.




Just to finish this blog posting I have to show off my handsome stallion Rusty, as last week in the sun he was feeling good and prancing around his keep, wanting to go out with the herd in pasture #1.

I am planning to have a backhoe come in soon and we are going to build a private pasture for Rusty to run around and graze as soon as the weather breaks.

Hope you have a great St. Pat's Day celebration.

And that’s the way it is… waiting for spring at McKuster Ranch