Real cowboy measurements

“When you been maturinatin’ ‘long as I have, they’s a few ultimatum facts about life that jest can’t be ignored,”

With that, our favorite old-time camp cook, mule packer and occasional predictor of things that haven’t happened yet, Windy Wilson, stirred the sugar in his coffee and looked at the rest of us. Wisely. Well, as wisely as old Windy ever gets.

We knew we were in for another dose of campfire education, even if it’s totally wrong. We smiled. Some people need cable TV to find this kind of fun.

“Like them measurementals we use when we’re cookin’, he said. “If you look in them recipe book...