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Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 10/06/2010 12:39 PM Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 10/06/2010 12:41 PM
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Welcome to the Country~by Charity Maness

So you’ve decided to move to the country where kids use all the resources available to them to embrace the spirit of the country. After hearing a story told by one of my friends of how her son had recently and proudly I might add roped a chicken, I figured it would be just fine to tell of my roping experiences with my brood of country wannabe’s. Now unlike my friend and her brood which were raised on a cattle/sheep ranch with acres upon acres of land to roam, my children were raised for the first nine years in a small coastal town. We had what I considered to be a large lot, but when compared to the country…well, let’s just say, it paled in comparison. So when my friend reiterated her hilarious story of her son’s roping adventures “ropin’ anything that moved” it got my mind a spinnin’.....


Though most of my references to my children when I write are to my youngest that I fondly refer to as mini Wyatt (my husband being aptly named Wyatt) I must come up with a name for my second son for this story, I think I’ll call him Doc.

So within a year or two of moving to the country Doc decided the cowboy life was his true calling and that to be a real cowboy you must know how to rope a cow. So one day he sauntered into the house with his best cowboy swagger his new shiny spurs jingling loudly and proudly announced that he would be learning to rope cattle, not just any cattle, big, mean, beefy ones…preferably with horns. My first response, eyes blazing red, steam coming from my ears, was a profound “No.” Not in so few words. Doc’s spirit crushed, seeing his dream of being a rodeo roping star flying from his mind, set off to prove he can rope something…anything. After multiple attempts, he manages to succeed in roping a tree stump. Jubilant beyond belief he goes right from tree stump to pygmy goat. Within an hour he is back to tree stump.

Why in the world little sirens didn’t go off in my head when he so quickly thereafter gave up on the tree stumps still baffles me to this day. It didn’t take long after the abandonment of roping tree stumps for me to hear sounds of productive pre teen boy coming from my garage; hammering, sawing, obnoxious music blaring, etc.

Now this is where, country ingenuity comes into play. I’m pretty certain McGyver must have been a country boy; if you give a country boy a toothpick and a can of oil they can build you a bucking bronco, and build one Doc did.

When I heard a lot of whopping and happy laughter coming from the garage I decided it was high time that I head out to investigate. As I got closer I was shocked as my mini Wyatt flew out of the garage sitting on a skateboard that had been outfitted with makeshift bull framed out of leftover 2x4’s, horns and all. Mini Wyatt fit just nicely in the small space on the skate board his little hands pushing against the ground to make the ferocious bull move. In hot pursuit was none other than Doc lasso in hand intent on ropin’ himself a bull!

Long story short, mini Wyatt came out of the experiment unscathed and Doc came out with knowledge of roping and lots of Wyatt’s tools that to this day have yet to reappear.

Thank you Ronda for the funny story that lead me to this latest Welcome to the Country.

Until next time…Welcome to the Country
www.charitymaness.com



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