And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
I'll be cooped up working in an office all day today. Where would I rather be?
I did that work when I was a teen. I was the "mugger" knocking the calf down then taking the lariat from the neck of the calf and wrapping their hooves with it. All while on my knees in the guacamole. It's a young mans work....
The closest I got was running the Green River on a horse in the summers when the cattle were in their summer range and pulling them out of the quicksand. I didn't get paid all that much, but it was a great experience. But, yes, a young man's job.
If you are a good roper you don't have to be a mugger! Some who can't rope worth a damn learn to be fast & good with a knife so they don't have to be the mugger...
Yes, truth be told, I have carried a firearm almost continuously since age 14. Now it's legal. I think that it was back then too since there weren't as many laws as there are on young people who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights. And in the service, I killed people for a living - and in the intelligence business, I needed to protect myself, etc.
Are we talking about the same thing re: muggers (like the ones that get to stick their fingers in the calf's nose and put an arm around the neck to hold them down, and /or the ones who get to grab the off hind and flip'm over) I preferred being the cutter ( castrating & ear marking) since I was a lousey roper...and didn't aspire to mugger (honorable a position as it is).
To clarify...in the photo above there are two guys with horses and lariats (cowboys, aka the SOB's, sons of the boss), a dog (OSHA observer) and one guy with no horse, on his knees in the guacamole wrestling two lariats and one pissed off, frightened calf (mugger-me).
I did that work when I was a teen. I was the "mugger" knocking the calf down then taking the lariat from the neck of the calf and wrapping their hooves with it. All while on my knees in the guacamole. It's a young mans work....
ReplyDelete"Miugger." What a great job title. That's gonna take a 492 as a group number, at least..
DeleteThe closest I got was running the Green River on a horse in the summers when the cattle were in their summer range and pulling them out of the quicksand. I didn't get paid all that much, but it was a great experience. But, yes, a young man's job.
ReplyDeleteIf you are a good roper you don't have to be a mugger! Some who can't rope worth a damn learn to be fast & good with a knife so they don't have to be the mugger...
ReplyDelete"learn to be fast and good with a knife…" Sounds like the primary requirement to be a journeyman mugger.
DeleteNope, never had to be the mugger...
DeleteMuggers who I have dealt with in my life all had good knife skills...
DeleteFortunately, I'll bet you were handy with a firearm. Never bring a knife to a gunfight.
DeleteYes, truth be told, I have carried a firearm almost continuously since age 14. Now it's legal. I think that it was back then too since there weren't as many laws as there are on young people who wish to exercise their Second Amendment rights. And in the service, I killed people for a living - and in the intelligence business, I needed to protect myself, etc.
DeleteAre we talking about the same thing re: muggers (like the ones that get to stick their fingers in the calf's nose and put an arm around the neck to hold them down, and /or the ones who get to grab the off hind and flip'm over) I preferred being the cutter ( castrating & ear marking) since I was a lousey roper...and didn't aspire to mugger (honorable a position as it is).
ReplyDeleteI was thinking of men in hoods that hang out by ATM's at night.
DeleteA far less respectable profession than the other "mugger" Brighid is talking about, but no doubt at times more exciting.
DeleteTo clarify...in the photo above there are two guys with horses and lariats (cowboys, aka the SOB's, sons of the boss), a dog (OSHA observer) and one guy with no horse, on his knees in the guacamole wrestling two lariats and one pissed off, frightened calf (mugger-me).
ReplyDeleteWe got the guacamole, but did anyone remember to bring the salsa?
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