Getting Out Of Bed

I ended the last post with me laying in bed thinking about how I was going to get out of the horseshoeing business and kind of start my life over just a bit. Like all people I was having all kinds of problems with life, I was doing my best to hide all of them from friends, family and customers but during that part of my life I was really struggling on the inside. Hell, If I was to be completely truthful, I’m still struggling with life about 33 1/3rd % of the time.

Since we’re talking about being truthful at this moment, I would like to mention two problems I have with writing this Blog: language and truthfulness!! It seems that I never get to be my real self unless I’m totally by myself and that time is becoming less and less as my life moves forward.

With my Website, Online Store and the Social Media that I’m trying to do, I find myself being that fake person that I’ve been for most of my life because I’ve always felt that if I was the true me I would never be accepted. I really want this Blog to be a success, and get all kinds of followers and have people think that this Old Boy really has some interesting things to say. I want people to really relate to what I have to say about the things that I mention in my posts, whether they agree or not.

I probably use the foulest language that you have ever heard come out of someone’s mouth when I’m with my wife or my son or my Web Master. (Note from Bob’s webmaster: his language isn’t all that bad. I’ve heard young kids use worse. Hell, I’ve used just as bad. Bob is just really hard on himself). I guess the problem I have is that I’ve never found nice words that express the true way that I feel about a subject like bad words do. So I guess what I will do is use the first letter of bad words to express my true feelings about a subject if I feel that it is really needed to get my point across. Second is that a lot of times you can really ruffle some feathers if you state your true feelings about a person or topic. My Mother use to say that if you don’t have something good to say about someone then don’t say anything at all. I think that is probably good advice but I’ve done that for 67 years and at this point in my life I really don’t care anymore if I say or do something that goes against what one of the Big Boys have been telling you. More about Big Boys later!!

Back to laying in bed trying to figure out how I was going to make this major change in my life. Having been an AC (aircraft commander) in Nam you had to learn to make decisions quickly because there were a bunch of people in the back of your aircraft whose lives depended upon you being able to look at a situation and calmly do whatever was necessary to keep everyone alive. So I decided right there that I was going to become a Saddle Maker.

My Webmaster, who is a really awesome lady, says that I can do Reviews on things and mix them in with my Blog Posts. Reviews are something I really want to do, I’m going to start out slow using still pictures and text and then move on to using my new camcorder and making short Videos that will end up on Facebook, my Blog and the most fun of all will be YouTube. All of videos that go on YouTube will be bundled up and put under the name Bitterroot Saddle Co. This is really going to be fun for me, a lot of extra work, but fun. My first review is going to be on Rear Cinchas and whether you should or should not be using one. As soon as you think this could be worth reading please tell your friends and help me build my Blog.

Thanks Bob