Wednesday, October 25, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Commentary...
Bull by Bull
By Judy Bull
Columnist
• Vernon — of whom I often write — was
a gentleman, a scholar and an artist. Best
of all he was a master farrier. When I look
out to my barn I see his turn-of-the-century
Hay Budden anvil sitting on the stump right
where he last used it. Since his death in 2012,
a number of shoers have asked if I ever plan
to let his anvil go, to which I reply, “Lee
Christensen has dibs on it when I croak.”
Until then, often times when I walk past it, I
pick up the hammer and let it ring out again,
as only a forged Hay Budden can.
• It took me years to get the mileage sign
on the Tumalo grade corrected: Based on the
mileage sign just west of Cascade Village
Shopping Center, mileage to Salem was off
by four miles on the grade signage. Suffice
it to say, I consider the correction to be my
Central Oregon legacy.
• All these terrible, terrible fires and disas-
ters this summer and fall finally got me to
create and post a list of what to take: critters
and medicine.
• Not long ago my sweet Pet Place Pepper
dog died. The Pawnees would say that she
has gone to the sky world. We took care of
each other for four short, wonder-full years.
PHOTO PROVIDED
Pepper has gone to the sky world.
170 W. Cascade Ave., Sisters
(In Barclay Square, behind BJ’s Ice Cream)
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PHOTO PROVIDED
Vernon Smith, master farrier.
Just us. Being a blue heeler, her favorite
words were “horses” and “goats” because
that always meant we were going out to the
barn to tend to said horses and goats. In the
days after she died I put the house “back
together.” It all looks very familiar and feels
very lonely. Her ashes are out with her horses
... finally ... where she always wanted to be.
• Truth be told, I’m pretty sure the
soundtrack from Saturday Night Fever is
going to be my go-to, music-wise, when I’m
an old lady who needs cheering up. Its beat is
simply irresistible.
• I can’t remember being more grossed out
than when I opened up a U-stir jar of peanut
butter ... ugh. I couldn’t even begin to stir it,
much less eat it. What a mess.
• Cold, windy, or snowy weekends I often
watch golf on TV. I like seeing the people
and players in their short sleeves enjoying
the warm weather, while I sit by the fire on a
snowy Central Oregon afternoon. I even have
a couple of favorite golfers. The announcers
always speak so quietly and the spectators
even seem to be able to clap quietly. Perfect
napping background noise.
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SM 102, , BBR • $525,000
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