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)
I’ve got Texas on the brain. I’ve been sorting the 90+ bootmakers on my Texas bootmaker list into counties…so then I can put thebootmakers and the counties into regions…so then more people who don’t know their way around Texas can find a nearby bootshop. But geez…it isn’t easy. I thought I was doing just fine, until I realized that Amarillo crosses countylines. This means that two bootmakers can both have Amarillo shop addresses, but one can be poundin’ pegs in Randall County…the other in Potter. Ugh.
Think it’s easy? Here you give it a try. Match up these Texas cities with their respective counties:
