Yesterday was Weeds and Roses, today only weeds remain.  But with pending rain I don’t think I want to waste that expensive weed killer…it will wait for another day, perhaps next week.

The remainder of this week is filling up fast.  Today is a day with Sherry to do whatever…Tomorrow a turkey hunt with the Weasel and hopefully success…Friday is May 10 and the plan is to go out to the “Golden Spike National Historic Site” and celebrate the 144th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike.  We live so close to that place and yet in all my 63 years I have never seen the celebration…shame on me.

It was on May 10, 1869 that the last tie was put down and the last two rails were spiked into place to complete the transcontinental rail road.  When you read about this “transcontinental rail road” bit and do a bit more studying about it, it really wasn’t complete at this time.  But the need for a celebration was in order and after all the two railroad building companies did meet at this point…. eventually.

I understand that the two companies building their portions of this rail line were being paid by the mile and since the contract was let to each of them, one coming from the East and the other from the West, neither contract said they had to end  and so they actually laid tracks parallel to one another for quite a distance.  When the powers to be heard about this, they forced them to “back track” and meet at the Promontory Summit…sneaky track layers anyway.

Back to my writing:  And then on Saturday, we want to go turkey hunting with Conner…This day I really hope is a successful hunting day with a big bird downed by Conner…we will give it our best shot and hopefully he does too.

Bears Butt

May 8, 2013