Friday, September 02, 2011  Swagger and Spit: A Hick Chic Guide
Cute Stuff, who lived a few houses away from us when we lived in
town, brought his Mom out to the Ol' Homestead for a visit this
week.   Cute Stuff knows where I keep the extra cowboy boots in
the barn.    Here we are going out to catch a horse.  He is
wearing cowboy boots.  I am wearing chicken-white legs.  He had
to swagger.  It's what you do when you're rocking the cowboy
boots.    The kid's a natural.    Cute Stuff started talking
about spurs.  He asked me if I have spurs.  Yeah I have spurs.
 His green eyes got real big.  Do you USE them?  Not very often.
 Only on Phoenix.  Cute stuff had this idea that I get on my
horse and jab him in the guts repeatedly.  So I asked him where
he's getting his info from and got reminded that I am totally
unhip when he told me about a video game called Red Dead
Redemption.    Yay, another source of western stereotype
misinformation.  But guess what - Cute Stuff can now tell the
vid-kids that he has actually