I’m headed off in the morning to meet up with a great group of cowboy craftsmen/artists who bring their A game every year to the show in Oklahoma City. I’ll also be meeting up with this saddle. This saddle was designed and built in honor of all the brave, horseback women who get it done […]
Ray Holes Saddle Butter
When I worked in a saddle shop in Bozeman, Montana (1983), I became acquainted with a boot/shoe repairman by the name of Howard Pfaff. He loaned me his mare for a team roping that summer, but the thing I remember most about knowing him was something he said. He sold boots as well as having […]
Morgan McArthur
I first met Morgan McArthur DVM in 1984. He was a fairly new graduate of vet school and working with a couple other guys in a clinic in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He was gregarious, witty, smart, and perhaps even a bit intimidating to some. I was living about 2.5 hours away in Salmon, Idaho at […]
Strength and Weakness
Tim is an attorney from Boston for whom I’ve done work for over the years. We talk on the phone occasionally about horses, saddles, and life. I consider him a thoughtful friend. Yesterday he was asking about building another pair of chaps…’says he’s got a new horse that he wants to show this summer. I […]
The Whole Cloth Method
We hosted a floral design/carving class on April 15 & 16 this spring. It was a jamb-packed two days with a larger class than usual…this one more than filled up as soon as I announced it. We started out the first day showing how to ‘gesture draw’. This is a technique I learned from our […]
The Barn That August Built
Heinrich August Wolters (b. 1870) raised a barn very near the place that I would one day be raised as well. The year was 1930, not long after the Great Crash of ’29, but hay had to be stored, teams harnessed, and cows milked. Though the near future looked bleak, there was a family to […]
Disentangled
I hadn’t seen Ray for several years when I ran into him at a horse sale. As we got caught up on each other’s lives, he reminded me of a day years ago when he and I were gathering cattle. Riding across a grassy meadow, we happened upon a friend of mine who had been […]
The Outside View
In his book “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman speaks about how difficult it is to take the outside view. We get ingrained with our ways of thinking and have a very tough time regarding any other point of view. While gathering up an arm load of wood the other night, I […]
Never Stop Learning
Be a life long learner.
November 2015 Clinic
I just completed a class this past week here in my shop in Salmon. Anna Severe from Rogerson, Idaho and Steve Hoyt came out from Washington, Missouri. What a couple of great students… Anna wrote some fifty pages of notes and took 500 photos! I enjoy the process of showing folks how I do stuff, […]
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