Hat Tips

Hello,

I’m sure most of you have seen the Chevy Chase movies about their family vacations.

We were talking about rodeo trips the other night and I recalled our “vacation” with the kids in the mid seventies. Our nephew, Tom, was in the National High School Rodeo Finals in Helena, Montana. That is a long way northwest of here. He was a calf-roping finalist. This is before he became heavy. A lot of you won’t remember this skinny young kid.

Anyway, we went with Shirley’s sister and her husband Lynn. I’ve told you about him before. We’ve been lost a lot together over the years. And we took our kids...