Meantimes jus git along little kitties means eye on the goal. Wanna moon howl? Join the lone coyote on the hill. Even farmers and the ranchers should be friends. Family sides ranching and farming the Territory well before ’07 Statehood. Find a native with a WH Taft Land Grant. I owned portion one once in Clinton, and did not ever want to live in a house and use the land to build on for self to ranch or farm cotton. 8
Title letter was on an old typewriter odd spaced keys and signed “Signed” W.H. Taft. To sell again you gave it back. Mom kept in a steel ammo box in the fridge as advised. Name on grant was “one ‘Shoe Boy’ “. Included ALL Of the city of Clinton 5 sq miles on S & N US 66 ,actually the RR line, became Clinton Savings and Trust to develop the next day. Way it was done .

Never sure if name was  One Shoe Boy  or indicates  the one  individual Shoe Boy. “1 shoe boy” sounds more authentic

Guru’s not it. I learned quick to be honest and loyal and it comes back in spades. Wrong move at times sure but NEVER makes enemies. Move on. In time even those come back in assist asked for or not. It’s when you’re the only 2 friendlies in unfriendly skies what gets you both home. Right now thinking N Korean nut daddy took the Pueblo and on that Fri Pentagon called Nav Shoppe at Combat Crew Tng EB-66 Shaw AFB. I was asked how many refuelings to reach Ittazuke Japan? I’d done the Pacific often from W Coast in BUFFS so said, Need one E to W coast then 1 out to past Hawaii, 1 to Wake Is. and another there to Japan E coast on to narrow Kyushu on W Coast Fukuoka. Map is in my brain etched. 4 BIG charts. Call it 4 and spares for emergencies diverts . They say draw it up and take to Command Post. Monday 5 took off, 3 to Hawaii then on and 2 all way non stop for FLAG SHOW. Same time Yeager’s F-4 Wing at Seymore Johnson NC was doing the same to Okinawa. Past date line on Wed they were there one long day the rest response arrived. House mate Joe was in 1st 2 and and I replaced 6 mo later. THAT was FUN! We’d brief 8 AM , blast off straight to 38N, see what came up on defense radar and plot them . Then tourist island tool a few hours and go home. Why aren’t we doing even more today? Nuc chicken shit we’ve allowed him. But I was Tom Cruise 20 years before Tom. 8

Mom had 2 lease Kerr McGee claims in Butler, Custer Cnty old farm homestead I had to refuse royalties in ’98 to get on Medicaid Ft Worth as she worsened in dementia need of nurse home care. That was HER profession ’58 on and back from somewhere I’d go do her midnight rounds as “The Captain”. Grew to be larger sums in 2000’s but not near the cost of family’s no Manor Care payments till ’05. Never reapplied when asked but suckers were deep! Pressure 5 miles down can shift BIG faults in a small slide and there’s the 4.5’s but crap we had one them every few weeks in Bay Area as kid and caused her Mom go become an Okie again in ’45. Can’t recall much fracking on the San Andreas as did not exist and ’08 on? began to demand building quake proof. Same as Fl hurricanes practices. Oil’s a need not cost cut builders. 8