By Julie Carter --Cowgirl Sass & Savvy As a rule, cowboys are generally so broke they can go through several downturns of the stock market and most of a major recession without noticing much change. However, let there be an extended drought and they will

Julie Carter Cowgirl Sass & Savvy www.julie-carter.com Most folks think that if a cowboy has a brain, he wears it under his hat. Truth of the matter is everything of importance that he might know is written in a little book carried in his shirt pock

By Julie Carter Having secured a sort of left-handed proposal of marriage from her cowboy last Sadie Hawkins’ Day, the soon-to-be-bride began to work on her Hope Chest. You don’t hear much about that tradition in this day and time, but pragmat

Taco the border horse By: Julie Carter Hola, amigos. Mi llama es Taco. That’s my new name. I had another name before, but when I got a new home, I got a new name and a new profession. I am in training to be an ace speed-demon team roping horse on th

A prickly situation By Julie Carter/ Cowgirl Sass & Savvy There he was, standing in all his glory, and his underwear, with his glow-in- the-dark white skin glaring in the late afternoon sun. His spindly cowboy legs were still in his boots and his

Julie Carter -- Cowgirl Sass & Savvy The probability factor for knock-down drag-out fight in corrals zooms to 100 percent when him-and-her cattle counting is involved. “Differing slightly” is a smooth term for what happens when he expects

Spending the day with Murphy Cowgirl Sass and Savvy By Julie Carter Sometimes the day just starts out in such a way, you know it's going to be uphill all the way. Doesn't matter if you are a cowboy or a white collar worker in a high rise, there are days

Gettin' old - not a pretty sight Cowgirl Sass & Savvy by Julie Carter The plan all along is to get old, but it happens to some folks faster than others. Cowboys pretty much across the board fit into that category. The life of cowboy is hard on the physica

Don't forget to check your cinch Cowgirl Sass & Savvy by Julie Carter Cowboying in the sand hills on a big cow-calf operation, Blayke's days were routine to his job title. With 4,000 head of momma cows and their babies by their side, a typical day w

When it wasn’t against the law Cowgirl Sass & Savvy by Julie Carter For once, it is good I'm as old as I am, or my parents would have criminal records. I have the words of caution about possible legal ramifications for paddling your child. I would