It's a half hour or so 'til the Boot and Saddlemaker Banquet. It's been a good day. I won a hundred dollars worth of "Round-Up Dollars" good for anything I want at the show, I think ...whatever that is. Maybe a lasting stand from Dick Anderson...errrr...maybe some of that buffed stingray Clay Hathaway was showing me from Omni Leather....but then there's that channel cutter everyone's talking about in C.T.Chappell's booth. I think I'll sleep on it...but then maybe not 'cuz Carl Lichte's shown up, and it's been a whole year since I've heard any of Dave Little's stories. Nobody's gonna get much sleep tonight.

I'm in Wichita Falls, TX at the Bootmakers' Round-Up. Last night, I stayed up stayed up until 3am talking about boots with Clay Hathaway, Hutch and Terry from Colorado...I think it's gonna be like this the whole weekend. The only way to fit in everything, and everybody, is to try and make a day last twice as long. Tonight, Gary Cunningham invited the bootmakers over to his house for a BBQ...we all ended up in his shop, like "regular folks" end up in a kitchen.

I'm going to bed...more tomorrow.

(...pictured left to right) Lisa Sorrell (Guthrie,OK), Valerie Coe (Alturas, CA), Dale Sorrell and Gary Cunningham (Wichita Falls, TX)

wow...

I'm sitting in a Starbucks. I'm using my new iBook. I'm connected to the internet with a wireless connection. It's so easy.