Friday Nite Check In

 Well..., come Sunday I will chalk up trip number 74 around the sun..., and I plan to celebrate it with some Mexican beer that I acquired a taste for on a little vacation down that way.  That's not the way I used celebrate  back in the day..., when I used to buy a keg of beer and give away free kisses to all the girls..., and invite all my friends to an outdoor party at Fraser Park in Idaho where I was born and raised.  Those days ended when I moved to Forks, WA in 1987.  After I "retired" from logging in the late 90's and found employment that offered more benefits..., like paid vacations..., I used to take a week off to cross the Cascade Mountains back to Idaho and celebrate with all my friends and family back in Idaho..., and buy a keg of beer..., and dozens of fresh oysters to share with all those old friends..., but I did have to curtail the free kisses since I was hooked up with Julie by that time.  I documented the history of those parties on this Blog a while back...,

https://scottrthequillayutecowboy.blogspot.com/2011/03/april-birthdays-party.html

Here's a picture from one of the later parties when the venue was Dave and Kathy Daniels' Ranch at Heywood Meadows.

Hope this rainbow view from The Front Porch is a good omen for the next trip around the sun for this old cowboy.  Things are shaping up good around The Ranch..., the grass is greening up..., the daffodils are blooming..., the apple trees and rhodys are budding..., the geese are squawking north in good numbers..., The Garden is shaping up..., Charley Horse is shedding his winter coat..., and the dogs won't let a bill collector on site 😀 

I tried hard to find a Sam Neely song on Youtube for your Friday Nite Music Video...,

Young and Free

How many ties have you leaned on back

Dreamed about the days

Knowing you can't turn back

And sit in the sun

Waiting for the night to come

Knowing you're still so young and alive

Lord it's a shame when you ain't got the time 

To drift on back to the nursery rhymes

Cause those were the times 

That are best in my mind

Lord it's just a crime to let them die

 

(Chorus)

And I want to live the life I used to live

And I want to be always young and free

 

How many years have you wasted away

That you wouldn't trade for just one day

To be in the past but still it couldn't last

Cause you can't take back what's here today

 

(Chorus)

 

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but I couldn't find it..., so I will settle for this one..., Rosalie.