Poor homeless waif....

A pic of little Rando around 1980 or so.

I came to the US around the time this was taken, and apparently fancied myself a young cowpoke, as I would shed my shirt and shoes at first chance.

I would sneak up on the horses and jump on their backs, riding them bareback.

One day a passerby saw me, and drove down the driveway, informing my aunt (My adopted mother, basically) "Some poor little homeless child is riding your horses around"

 

skipped school in new orleans as a kid -- ditched my shoes , cut holes in my pants and swam in the city park -- the cops caught me --asked if I was homeless told em no -- when I got home my mom whipped me so bad --I was thinking I shoulda said "yes" instead.

Cute and every kids dream take the day and go riding no cares and no school til we get caught!  LOL!  You were a cute little kid!

when I was a kid,  we never wore shoes or shirts.  our feet became so hard we could run on gravel.
if I tried that now,  I'd be laid up in bed for a week

when I was a kid,  we never wore shoes or shirts.  our feet became so hard we could run on gravel.
if I tried that now,  I'd be laid up in bed for a week

Oh yeah, me too..

I had come from running around in the scrub at home and the orphanage in Rhodesia, and then came here and did the same thing..

I just noticed that I appear to be playing with something in that picture.
it appears to be something I forgot about.
A pocket knife.

I lost it, and I know the general area I lost it IN.

I wonder..........

So when ya goin go look ?   

So when ya goin go look ?   

I don't know. I know that the house proper is still there, but is used as a storage shed, and the corral that I was standing in front of is roughly where the present house was built in around 1998...

I have about a month before the ground freezes.

I know ( I think) where that knife is and roughly where I buried the bag of pennies...

It would have been 1981 or 1982

I see a "field" trip in your future,  good luck

Make sure you let us know! And post pics!     I bet you find more than the bag of pennies and the knife that you lost and forgot about!   My husband was in out backyard and found my toy Bat Masterson pistol I didn't know I had lost!

Glad you posted that pic, Rando.  You ain't changed that much...little taller.  We didn't wear shoes cause the folks could only afford them for the winter time.  It was tough in Western Oklahoma because there were lots of grass burs and goatheads to step on.  And my first all the time pair of shoes were...cowboy boots!

Glad you posted that pic, Rando.  You ain't changed that much...little taller.  We didn't wear shoes cause the folks could only afford them for the winter time.  It was tough in Western Oklahoma because there were lots of grass burs and goatheads to step on.  And my first all the time pair of shoes were...cowboy boots!

 

Thanks...
 

Isn't it getting a little chilly in that van down by the river? 

Isn't it getting a little chilly in that van down by the river? 

I'm actually sitting in my bunker surrounded by my guns and cases of dehydrated water, waiting for 'The Big One'

 

  How much is that dehydrated water selling a case for now? 

How much is that dehydrated water selling a case for now? 

Eleventy Dollars..

 

America the chance for all to succeed Go Rando.

I just caught that...dehydrated water...I got it down here at the store for a dollar two ninety-eight.  Haha!

I guess I will have to stick with RGINN's price it sounds better!