Sayings

Our friends Ed and Nancy Bump were with us last weekend at the cabin ~ cold but toasty.  It's easy to be in confined quarters with good friends.  Ed and I got to reminiscing about family and friends.  We have often shared "sayings" that our mothers passed down to us ~ sayings that we had to admit sometimes baffled us as to their origins let alone their meanings!  None the less the sayings are still with us.

On the way back from the cabin this morning I was reminded of a couple of sayings that my Dad would honor me with upon the appropriate occasion.

 As I was traveling south toward the Tamarack next to a cow pasture, I remember Dad saying, "if there's cow shit on the road, that's a good sign you should slow down and take note."   Pretty profound ~ but true.  I remembered that saying many times as I sat in on academic committee meetings ~ there was often a lot of shit on the road!

Another one was, "a hat does not a cowboy make."

One of my favorites, "he's pretty much powder river ~ a mile wide and an inch deep."

Good friends mean good memories and the triggering of good memories.  That's what binds us.  

We look forward to seeing Ed and Nancy this Winter in Cambria.

Gordon, et. al.