Slim Randles' Home Country
Road signs for the town folk
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[November 16, 2015]
I
was invited recently to join Bob Milford, manager of the prestigious
Diamond W Ranch, on a drive-around tour of the place. It’s a huge,
private ranch, with tiny ex-logging roads winding around through
13,000 acres of pine trees and rocks. A real paradise. |
But I was horrified to see wooden street signs nailed to trees
wherever two of these old logging trails came together.
“Oh no,” I said, out loud.
“What’s the matter?” Bob asked.
“I see you’re planning a subdivision here.”
Bob started laughing when I pointed at the signs. “Those are for the
owners,” he explained. “They live Back East and visit here one
weekend a year. When they get out here, they take the pickup and
drive around and get lost.
“Once I got a call on the cell phone from the owner, who said he was
lost and couldn’t find his way back to the house. So I asked him
where he was and he said he was right there, sitting on a rock and
close to a pine tree.”
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He chuckled. “That narrowed it down to about 13,000 acres. Well, I
managed to find him, and after that, I put these signs up. I tell
them now, if they get lost, to drive until they come to Home Road
and then head downhill. It solved the problem.”
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
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Ol' Jimmy Dollar
is Slim Randles' first children's book. The book is for kids
K-3rd grades and is even better when parents read it with children.
Ol' Jimmy Dollar makes for sweet dreams and if you have a dog
even better. Available now on Amazon.
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