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Vinnie Oakes spent half a lifetime in restaurants, hotels, and casinos, and is the author of "Sauté Them Babies," a memoir.Loves a good laugh. loves photography

A Couple of Cowhands

Sep 23, 2026

A couple of cowhands noticed a hole in the fence, and after chasing down two steers and bringing them back to the rest of the herd, they stopped to make a quick repair. Looks as if they used the old trick of pulling a claw hammer from a saddle bag, inserting it into the strands and twisting it round and round after threading the loosened wires through a loop, so that the entire affair could be made whole and tight again. But that was over eighty years ago. Nobody knows how to do that these days.

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Vinnie Oakes spent half a lifetime in restaurants, hotels, and casinos, and is the author of "Sauté Them Babies," a memoir.Loves a good laugh. loves photography