New addition...

For those who might have missed it - last year Dick Cain gave another longhorn to me.  Her name is Old Brown Cow.  She was the only one that Benita would ever back down from.  She is about 16 yrs old.  OBC (as she is affectionately known by some) has been coming and going for a couple of years.  Yesterday she popped in for another visit with her new heifer calf, Jane - named after my recently deceased step mother.  So now I officially have 4 longhorns....the herd is growing.  Whether or not I try to pen the girls up remains to be seen.  I think Bud has a crush on Jane.  75,87,68, .02",B,.14

Jane Beck Smith Wells

My stepmother Jane passed away at the ripe old age of 98 last weekend.  This photo by my friend Chris Callis of both my step parents was taken at a gallery show I was in back in the early 90's in NYC.  I knew her longer than I knew my birth mother and was blessed to have a second chance to relate to a mom as an adult.  We developed a very special relationship over the years.  When my stepfather died right before I moved out here, I told her if she wanted to remarry a much younger man to keep me in parents, she would have my blessing.  Jane said she was done with matrimony but laughed at the idea.  I reckon I am officially an orphan now.  She warned me that I will never get married unless I shave off my beard.  I continue to take that advice to this day.78,96,69,0,B,0