Watching Lonesome Dove

Watching the best western movie ever made, Lonesome Dove, while Jeremy is perfecting his video game skills downstairs. Biggest mystery in life is why 11 year old boys don't like westerns??!!

Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duval Texas Ranger Captains Call and McCrae respectively round up a huge herd of cattle and horses in 1878 and drive them north 3,000 miles from Lonesome Dove a border town in south Texas to Miles City in Montana with the goal of getting there before the "bankers and the lawyers get it all".

As hard a life these fictional characters had I would love to have lived back then when life was lived close to the bone as Thoreau once described it where men were men and life was hard but simple.

Got a little taste of life around cattle while staying and working at the Mahnken ranch in the East Fork Chariton River bottoms near Salisbury, MO. Loved it!

After camping in the woods and elsewhere living a very marginal physical life in a tent and hiking in the heat and in the face of a relentless west sun I believe I could eventually adapt to a life in the old west! My favorite time in history.

Unfortunately, God seemed fit to introduce me to life in the mid 20th century and early 21st Century when "men"wear helmets while riding bicycles and where we worry about E Coli in our hamburger!! These people in the 19th Century worried about Indian attacks, Mexican bandits, rattlesnakes, disease, tornadoes on the High Plains and the like.

We worry about our kid's soccer game, whether our clothes carry chic brand names and if our hair has been adequately curled! Geeeez!

Anyway sorry about pontificating. But, that's how I roll. Haha!