eelgrass
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This contractor I've known for about 40 years called me up awhile back. We worked together on a few jobs until I went to work in the sawmill then I kind of lost track of him. He bought a portable sawmill but was having some trouble with it so I went and fixed it with him. I asked him if he was still hunting that private ranch in Idaho? I remembered all the hunting stories from back then. He told me this long story about how he hunted it every year and got to know the owners real well. The husband died and then a few years later the wife died. It was a complete shock and surprise to him when he found out they left the ranch to him. I think it's a couple thousand acres at least.
He tried running it for a couple years but was way over his head so he sold it to a guy he hired who knew ranching. As part of the deal he still gets to hunt there for life. The hunting isn't near as good as it was though. You know what them wolves have done.
After we fixed his mill he took me up to his house and showed me all the stuff he brought home from the ranch after she died. He built a 16'X16' addition to his house to hold it all. All kinds of Indian artifacts (he must have grocery sack full of arrow heads and spear points, etc.) 8 or 10 rifles and shotguns. He has a library of a couple hundred books and the latest date is 1903. He's never searched them to even know what they are. He has a display case just for all the old time medicine bottles that have never been opened and doctor instruments that they kept because it was so far out of town. Old dishes, lanterns, all kinds of cowboy stuff. It's a museum, is what it is. I was at a loss for words when I left. I still am.
He tried running it for a couple years but was way over his head so he sold it to a guy he hired who knew ranching. As part of the deal he still gets to hunt there for life. The hunting isn't near as good as it was though. You know what them wolves have done.
After we fixed his mill he took me up to his house and showed me all the stuff he brought home from the ranch after she died. He built a 16'X16' addition to his house to hold it all. All kinds of Indian artifacts (he must have grocery sack full of arrow heads and spear points, etc.) 8 or 10 rifles and shotguns. He has a library of a couple hundred books and the latest date is 1903. He's never searched them to even know what they are. He has a display case just for all the old time medicine bottles that have never been opened and doctor instruments that they kept because it was so far out of town. Old dishes, lanterns, all kinds of cowboy stuff. It's a museum, is what it is. I was at a loss for words when I left. I still am.