Status Updates From Stand to Horse

"He's broken his medicine--as the injun's say. He's got to build up his walls ag'in. Now, like as not, he'll go to far the other way 'n freeze up--all ice. Remember that if he does, son. But if we git through this, it'll be that iron in him what brings us in."-Tuttle.

So help me, if this ends with everyone dying. I'm going to need a whole box of tissues.

I've missed reading Norton! What a perfect book to read during a winter storm.

I love a good Western. Reminds me of lazy summer Sunday evenings after supper at my maternal grandparents' house. Sitting under the eaves in the cool evenings on the porch reading old Westerns with my great grandmother and grandmother while listening to my grandfather and uncles, and cousins listen to ball game on the radio and curse at our team losing.