| XX, Potawa, & Wilkie-d-Wonder-Dawg, after run'n the Frank Hopkins 50 Miler, Medicine Springs, Okla. 2003 |
| Whud-kinda' Dawg is 'dat?...that'd run 50+miles, quit-cha' @ 35-40 miles, take extra 15 mi. loop, & be @ truck before ya' get back?....well,..he's black, & speckled,etc..... |
| Potawa: 600 lbs. carry'n 245, half her body wt., came in 7th, SSMA, Coyote-bred,... POTAWA: Muskogean: " Not to be share'd or loan'd".... |
| We ran it for Gilbert |
| Ol' Gilbert Jones, G-J, told me & I'll tell you. "There's 2-many nice folks I ain't got time to fool with to mess with one single sumbitch..." |
| Copyright: Weldon Merchant, 2005, All Rights Reserved |
| NOTE FOR REAL NUTS: Ol' Gillbert Jones presenting XX. the 3rd Consectutive All-Around High Point Winner at Medicine Springs, Oklahoma, 1991... Check out the seat shine on the ol' XX's 1963 Bob Marrs Slick Fork Saddle, (maybe it was the 8-1400 miles a year XX spent there...what shined it?....& the quirt made from the cannon bone of a purdy' damn good horse what left me....here... The pictured horse with Gilbert & me was named Chatah...contemprary/match yellar' paint of Chicaza....Bar 15....come off ol' man Barry Trotter....another outlaw...taught me how to drink corn whiskey & other valuable skills, not recognized in parlors,... Chatah was a Recreational Buck'r....could spin & drop & reverse, under atmospheric conditions, & pop-out 3-4+ licks, then repeat, etc... long as you had your Mind-Right with th' Lord....& was spur'n him every lick,...from his ears to his A$$-Hole....but if you & th' Lord/Mother Nature weren't exactly right...ol' Yellar Trotter-Boy'd sure scuff up yo' cow-girl suit. but damn! at the Tales to Tell & the Places to Show,... that is the.... 2nd pay-day...XX |