An American Buckarette From The Great Basin

  An American Buckarette From The Great Basin


She looks for cattle on the sagebrush sea

Not just an ordinary girl, you see

She is beautiful

But doesn't mind showing a little dirt

Rides for the brand

Ain't afraid to take a stand when something or someone does wrong

She's handy in the kitchen

And in the sorting corral

Silver and rawhide are her bling

Her horse is her life

But she'd make a pretty good wife

She rides for her pay

And also knows how to play

Can throw a 50 ft loop with the boys

Doesn't treat them like toys

Can clean up like the rest, in a dress and heels.

She is a daughter, sister, mother, neighbor, wife, girlfriend

She is

An American Buckarette From The Great Basin.

Going Green The Vaquero Way

"Going Green The Vaquero Way"

It was a hot August evening down the Northern California way

Folks had been hanging out down at the fairgrounds all day

Watching reata ropings, team branding, and celebrating the ways of the 'ole vaquero

Now that the day was done

A bunch of us were sitting around reliving the day

When I heard one ole boy say "Hey we got Pendelton, who wants a shot?"

Another ole boy said "I'll take one but we ain't got no cups"

"Don't need 'em" the older buckaroo told him

And with that he asked the other guys to hand him their plastic water bottles from supper

With his pocket knife, he cut one in half

"see?" he said

"That there is a shot glass"

The younger fellow said , "Well I'll be goddarned" he said

"That there son, is what the city folks call 'going green'."

"Goin green?" said the younger buckaroo, "ain't that where you drive them electric cars that wouldn't pull a stock trailer if'n they tried?"

"Or usin them low light light bulbs?"

"Well no not really" the older man said

"This is goin green, the vaquero way"

"Many a fellow has been doin it for generations"

"And comes in handy when ya want a shot of Pendelton, don't it?"

"Sure does" the young fellow said

So folks when you think of "going green" don't just think electric toy lookin cars, low light light bulbs, and city folks gettin all excited about that 'warming'

Instead think of a bunch of buckaroos in Northern California country

Sippin Pendelton out of cut up water bottles

While swapping stories of good horses, long rides, wild cattle drives, and the woman of the day.

THAT, folks

Is going 'green'

The Vaquero Way

©Jenn Eastman