That whole family over there are strange people. If they like you, like Joe likes Charlie they are as loyal and nice as can be. But I've seen them treat people/customers like crap...I've always been amazed. Joe is a little younger then I am, and has old fashioned ideas (which are a bit redeeming), about "mothers' being special. I sometimes think that's why I've never had problems with any of them (till Stanley today:). I'm Charlie's mother:). One time Joe was over here, and saw that I was using a shoestring to connect my back cinch to my front cinch. He fussed at Charlie for letting me run around with and "unsafe" saddle. It was a nylon shoestring and had been on there for years and was till strong IMO:)
Anyway, I didn't even notice it for a while but one day I noticed that it had been fixed with a leather one. Come to find out that Joe had come over here and even tho no one else was here, he got my saddle out of the trailer and fixed it. Never told anyone. It wasn't till I noticed and asked Charlie about it that Charlie found out that Joe had done it. The really funny thing was that the leather one Joe put on it broke in a year. I had to tease him that my nylon shoestring lasted longer:). Charlie fixed it again after that with a nylon strap. I think the leather broke so quick because it gets wet alot from going in the creek.
Anyway, anytime I've needed help Joe has been there to help me. He's the one that came and help me and Charlie get the horse Cindy bought from me to load. Charlie and I had worked for six hours. Charlie called Joe and he came in just minutes with his bigger trailer and his expertise, and we had the horse loading in just a matter of minutes. He just gave Charlie those new stirrups last year for my old saddle when Charlie was working on it. So even tho he and his whole family are different and scare me:), I really apperciate them for the kindnesses they show me. You just have to be their friend, or the mother of their friends:)
Becky
Yeah, the old "Gooder'n Gold, but Stranger'n Strange" type. I know some people like that. They're great as long as they like ya, but if you piss 'em off, they're pissed of forever. At least these folks like ya.
I hadn't gotten to the next post. Yeah. I thought he was nice. Did you see him making that halter for Okie? He made it from just a piece of rope.