Looking At a Horseshoe

The city dude was watching the Cowboy
While he was shoeing his horse.
He had reached the point in this chore
He was fitting the shoe of course.

He was heating the shoe in the blacksmith's forge,
Then shaping it on his anvil.
Then he laid it aside to cool a bit when
The dude was templed by the devil.

He reached down and picked up the hot shoe,
The Cowboy had just laid aside.
Faster than he picked it up he dropped it,
Cause you see it burnt his hide.

The Cowboy slowly looked around and,
Questioned him "hot shoe"?
The City dude said "nope, it just doesn't
Take me long to look at a horseshoe".

By Billy O.

Three dragons front view

Three Dragons side view

My information leading up to this blog business

I was born and raised on a farm/ranch east of Flagstaff Arizona and attended Flagstaff High School at which time I took shop class for four years and really got the woodworking bug. I never had a chance touse it much until I went to Okinawa for two years after enlisting in the US Air Force during the Korean War.  I returned home to the farm/ranch and my Dad was disapointed that I did not want to be a farmer and I could not find a job working on air planes because they would not recognize my training as a senior aircraft mechanic so I started driving truck and running heavy equipment. I woorked on the Glen Canyon Dam just as it was starting and then went to work for the Flagstaff Police Department, where I worked for two years and then went over to the Arizona Highway Patrol.  I put in ten good years there and one day I went to work as usual and got hit bay a car as I had a violator stopped and that put a stop to my career.  We moved to Calrkdale where I worked many different jobs until I got elected to the Constable's position for the eastern half of Yavapai County for eight years and then retired.  I had set up a complete wood shop for my retirement years and I have made a lot of sawdust making everything from furniture of many kinds and have done a lot of woodcarving consisting of Ball and Chains from one solid piece of wood which is a lost art shown to me by and old man who came to work for my Dad every year and he also taught me to find walking canes in trees and finiish them to be givine to needy persons.  Recently I have been making replecas of the farm machinery we used on the farm/ranch and I have just completed al I need to explain how we farmed in the old days.  I made one dragon for a friend and then maed a few more of my own design just because I can and enjoy designing something different.

A Dragon a copy lkie the bigger one and a dinasour my own designs

Four row planter and a Harrow these make the collection complete to explain farming in my days of old