October 16

[morrobay1990]

Title: October 16
Author: morrobay1990
Warning:
Genre: canon/1990
Word count: 140
Disclaimer: They are AP's
♥ Jack









He was looking forward to an easy day at work and getting to bed early. Yesterday he’d hurt his back trying to move some bales of alfalfa; they only weighed sixty pounds, but he turned wrong on the last one, felt it the instant it happened but too late then.

Driving in he thought about what had to be done today, and he figured he could get everything done and leave on time for a change, six PM. Then he’d have some of the stew that Junior’d given him on Sunday, a beer or two while watching Gunsmoke. The TV station in Riverton showed reruns at seven every Tuesday and even though he’d seen most of the episodes more than once over the years, it reminded him of watching it with his family when he was a kid. Sometimes he needed different memories.

Comments

[sienata.livejournal.com]

sweet but sad. i used to watch gunsmoke with my grandmother. i can imagine he'd like it. :)

[morrobay1990.livejournal.com]

I think it's cool your grandmother liked Gunsmoke and you watched it together....

thanks.

[mazaher.livejournal.com]

I picture him picking out technical mistakes in horse and cattle handling... after rubbing some embrocation on his aching back muscles.

[morrobay1990.livejournal.com]

Haha! Yeah, he probably did watch it with a critical eye...

whenever I watch anything to do with horses, I always notice how the damn actor is pulling on the horse's mouth, and how their ears are back (the horse's, not the actor's)...even Jake on the mare w/the low startle point - she looked a little unhappy...but then, she doesn't know who Jake is!

[mazaher.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I can't find a way to be happy with the low-startle-point scene. In that situation you don't pull back: you channel forward and smooth the bumps out, no pulling and no pushing. Gyllenhaal probably didn't know how to do better, but I still think animal actors should get extra benefits on their contracts for things like these. A fantastic professional was the dark bay in A Knight's Tale: s/he did the work competently and cheerfully, and Ledger knew how to sit quiet and not be a bother.

[gwylliondream.livejournal.com]

Oh, that hurt!

LOL! I thought you were kidding about Gunsmoke!

[morrobay1990.livejournal.com]

Nope, not kidding about Gunsmoke. And isn't it fascinating?

work and peace

[joetheone.livejournal.com]

We all have dreams of our time when not working but have to keep up with work as part of life. Joe

gunsmoke

[gibbous-moon.livejournal.com]

i remember it well. dad and us kids watched together. it was a long time ago.

i visit my sister in the black hills in south dakota every couple of years, and not far from her house, by the highway, i think it's 385?, there was always a sign saying that the episode of gunsmoke called "snow train" was filmed in the little canyon. of late, we would laugh, because hardly anyone remembers the old days of black and white tv westerns.

but this year when i drove by, the sign was gone. an era passes. sad.

thanks for the sweet reminder!

kj

[lomoroto.livejournal.com]

I remember watching westerns on TV in the late fifties and early sixties with my grandparents, and only lately realized that they were reliving their youth, to some extent: they were born in the 1880's, my grandfather worked with horses for a time as a young man, and my grandmother had been known to go up and scold anyone who mistreated a horse back in the early days. His father had been a wheelwright, and grandpa told me of Indians coming around when he was a boy selling baskets and truck they had raised. How sad and true it is that so many questions about the past come up in later life that we wish we had asked the old folks.