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Hello and Happy Saturday Friends!
Hope all is well in your part of the world. T, Dad and I are in Japan currently, daughter is running the marathon in Toyko, and since dad had put together a really nice email before we left, and I don't know when or where we are, I thought I would just share it here today.
If you like it, please consider subscribing to his notes, he does them every Thursday typically... and you never know what you are gonna get.
Did get notice from Nester that Sleep socks are almost finished, should get them by the time we get back... also, the new RedStripe Blankets are finished at Faribault, should have them shortly!
Hope you enjoy it. Ron, T, Cecil and the crew here
It's going to be a LONG email .... so get another "cuppa" something and hang on.
Two Solid Bison Auctions Last week
Hello Buffalo Wool Co and Herd Wear Friends!
The Oklahoma Bison Association on Saturday, Feburary 14th and the Texas Bison Association on Monday, February 16th both pulled the triggers on their annual Association auctions. Both were exceptional, with prices continuing the upward march mostly due to the increased demand for lean, delicious, healthy bison products.
There are (pretty much) 3 ways you can become a bison rancher .... with or without land, fencing, pasture or veterinary experience.
1. Go meet some folks that are already experienced. Join a local or regional bison association. Visit ranches and bison auctions. Read all you can. Plan your facility or work out an "absent owner" agreement with a bison producer. Read up on bison disease, nutrition, handling, fencing, volunteer to help bison ranchers with round-ups, vaccinations, loading, fencing and feeding. This is not an exaustive list ... but it sounds exhausting, right?
2. A much quicker way. Raise your hand at a bison auction!
3. One other way is to buy some land next to a a bison ranch ..... and just wait a bit!
Yep. To my point. This is a pretty long ago - like maybe 2008 - "Back 40" Calendar This authentic humor is part of why we keep offering those wonderful, quirky and oh too true views into rural life from the wit and pen of Lex Graham. We still have some 2026 (and maybe 2 of the 2025)
2026 Back 40 We suspect Winter is over here in North Texas. Still want to get the few left of my Buffalo Gold hand knit samples -cheap - to new homes
But Winter may not be over in your neck of the woods. So I have the last of the Wild Person fur collection (yes, you, Wild Person) ... with slashed pricing.
Here are the 7 issues of Field and Stream from '46 as you all said you wanted up. We are still working on the possibility of a "motherlode" of older issues. Stay tuned!
Son Ron, as NBA Regional Rep is getting the NBA photo and article archives digitized. In the process, we will do the same with my well over 300 part historic bison pieces . You can still buy the originals but delivery will be after digitizing.
The "new" old boat, which may or may not eventually get a name, has now found enclosed parking in the garage. I'm seriously into the ongoing process of adding all them necessary pieces - motor brace, seat stands, anchor set up, rod holders, additional transponder for the trolling motor and on and on ... almost without end. Oh yea, there is that old definition of a fishing (or ski or pleasure) boat being a hole in the water into which you constantly and without reward throw money. I'm smiling. First major excursion, if all holds, will be to Lake Fork in late April and Caddo Lake shortly after. Probably Meredith up here as quickly as I can get pieces in place (after Tokyo).
There will be a reckoning as to which rods; how many rods; which kind of rods make it onto the boat for the first couple go-rounds. If only these were all. Guest bathtub is still not for guests!
Our pieces hauled out to Wickenberg AZ to the Western Trading Post for their just finished Feb, 11 Cowboy auction were a blowout. Everything we brought sold ... and sold well. You do remember I gave you all a chance first, right?
Still a lot of very fine art works here, too. Many unframed; quite a few framed. We can connect on FaceTime or Google Meets so you can see them in real time. Just let me know when it is convenient.
As to the Art Collection here, plan is come spring ... unless fishing interferes, to take the Big ReD MobilE Art van around to a few select shows; bring art to the masses as it were. We got this almost ready last fall; can be up & out quickly... so watch for it!
Likewise, Ronson Page has a slightly smaller trailer that will become the mobile old book mobile. We are discussing coordinating schedules ... but so far we don't have one. Have an event you would like one or both of us to make? Let us know and we will see
I find wishing to be much overrated. However, I do wish that it was easy and cheap to ship bison meat around the country ... but there is not. Tender Tails, Strip Steaks, Bison Deli Dogs, Gehl's bison brats, It is always good eats!
Actually, if I really had a wish it would be for you to come join me here in Goodnight, on the long covered porch, early evening ... approaching dinner time, so we could fix bison right here and share both a meal and a sunset; each in it's own way being worth the time.
If you need any help sourcing bison for yourselves, let Ron or I help. Just need to know where you are and what you might be looking to bring in.
So our Meghan ... aka MeghanNatasha, - her Etsy Store Name - now has 13 tour guide packages up for sale on ETSY. She is good; They are good ... and she has actually sold .... at least one for sure. Berlin Marathon, La Paz, Portugal, Scandinavia, NY City Marathon
Ultimate Christmas Market Guide, Christmas Market Part 1, Part 2, Costa Rica. She's got enough personally experienced material .... and a bizzalian flight miles ... to back it all up. She's got our Tokyo trip lined out in stellar style ... and it will be up here once we get it done.
MeghanNatasha on Etsy
OK, I've got to wrap this thing up before we all slumber off. Theresa (a/k/a "T") has so many magnificent wildlife photos .... this is one Ron brought out that I had not seen ... and she had forgotten. I love it, hope you do too.
Yes, I am still retired! Yes, things do physically go slower. But keep it moving. You just have to live life as fully as possible; sharing laughter, events, highs and lows, injuries and surgeries with those that have made .... and continue to make my life a great trip through the unknown. And always smile; you will fool a bunch of folk and you will feel better, as well! 楽しむ Tanoshimu
It's my attempt at AI Japanese ... like A I A I OH.
You folks are all my "support" group, both literally and figuratively. Best wishes always. Cecil (and Theresa, Ron, Stacy, Big Red, Piggy Wrangler, Bob and the rest). It takes a village ... and we have a great one!
And just FYI ... if you have made it down here, Bob had a little procedure yesterday that may have him down for a bit. If immediate shipping is an issue ... best not order yet. He'll get to things as he always does .... but just wanted you to know.
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