A Gold Medallion Day With Triple B In The Beast

 October 31, 2024

   I had a full day down in the Beast yesterday and I asked Kathy if this looked too pretentious to wear all day?

BBB Wearing A Medal Around His neck

She assured me it looked very, very pretentious wearing my Will Rogers Golden Medallion around my neck and so I just had to wear it. Plus, I think Uno approves, what do you think?

Had to drop off some True West magazines to my cousin, Brenda Hamilton, who is in Mayo Clinic for treatment. She laughed and laughed at the absurdity of me wearing the medallion in the hospital, which made my day. Several nurses also chuckled as I walked by like Winston Churchill heading for a Nobel Peace Prize meeting.

From there I landed at Chompies on Shea to meet with the Payson Film Festival folks and the waitress did a doubletake. I said, "Have you not seen a Will Rogers Golden Medallion winner wearing his medal out in public?" She assured me she had not. Had a turkey rueben and it was fantastic!

From Chompies, I fought my way across Scottsdale and made it to Cattletrack Arts Compound, just in time to hand crank the last page of The Old Vaquero Sayings book off the press.

Will Rogers Gold Medallion Winner

Cranks Press by Hand!

  As you can see, even Jesus approves. Man, it is a beautiful thing, this "handufactured booklet".

The Cattletrack Crew:

L to R: Cohen McDowell, Aimee Ollinger, Mark McDowell and Brent Bond holding the last page off the press.

   Continued down further into the Beast and landed at Scottsdale Museum of the West. Had a fun meeting with Dave Scholefield who is the director of marketing about doing a Billy the Kid Shrine Show with my Kid Compadres, Buckeye Blake and Thom Ross. Got a sneak peek at the John Clymer art show and loved this epic beauty.

John Clymer's masterpiece

"On The Yellowstone"

   Expect to see this in an upcoming issue of True West magazine

   From the museum I fought my way over to Hayden Road and shot up north about ten miles to the Scottsdale Airpark and landed at Art & Custom Frame Shop where Guzal showed me six of the ten framed new art pieces for the Patinas Art Show on November 9th.

Guzal with the newly framed

"A Stranger Rides In"

   Guzal does such great work.

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

—Winston Churchill, who allegedly often wore his medallion when he ate at Chompies.