peaches

  why is it when your runnin a ranch for a dude, they want to bring all their town friends to help? most of them are nice people, well intentioned, but basicly they get in the way.  when i was younger i had no time for those folks. maybe that was why i didnt stay anywhere to long. as i got older i became more tolerant of those folks.  they cant help it if they didnt have the education we did. i mean they spent all their time bein lawyers, doctors and such, while we learned a more important trade, feedin the country.  but we had dirt under our fingernails and so......
     anyway, we were brandin at the 76 , we were short handed and so i was kinda puttin up with a couple of town dogs who were there at the invite of the owners,. i can honestly say they were better help than the owners.  as the day progressed we got into the swing of things and were gettin things done.  one of these town dogs was a little uppity but not bad, so when we stopped for lunch i kinda watched him turn his nose up at the bill of fare, but he did get a plate and nibble at the lunch my wife made for the crew, who was chowing down. we had a ice chest with cold drinks and cans of fruit for desert.
    i had a can of peaches and was sittin on the edge of the water trough spearin peaches out of the can with my knife when this persnickety fellar asked if that was the same knife i used all day casterating bulls and ear marking calves.  i nodded and rolled a peach to the otherside of my mouth and said yeah but, hell he was already pukin down on his hands and knees!! i was gonna tell him i washed it first, but changed my mind.