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

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