Today we went to the stockyards in Fort Worth. Every day at 11:30 am and 4:30 pm they run cattle right through the public streets.. The city of Ft. Worth previously provided the cowboys for this event but it just didn't go smoothly.......fights etc., (I guess that was before they had a really tough but fair Human Resourses analyst...that would be Lori)................. so now the Convention Center and Visitors Center provides these men and women who also walk around just for color and picture taking in between drives.
They only run about a dozen cows and the whole thing only takes about 5 minutes, but it is fun to see.
I wonder that they can run these animals out in public with horns like these.
Longhorns can live about 20 years if well tended and will weigh between 800-1500 pounds.
Ever heard a stray cattle called a maverick? The term came from a cattleman named Sam Maverick who claimed every unbranded cattle he saw was his. An unbranded cattle came to be called a maverick.
Neil likes these walkways and fences all around the stockyards because they are made of mesquite which is rough and twisted looking wood but I guess it lasts forever.
You can see Molly, the model for my pin, under the words Fort Worth here at the Stock Exchange
This is Ft. Worth 's city hall.
Across the street is the annex which is where Lori works.
It was originally the gas works and you can still pay your gas bill in this beautiful ornate original office. I particularly like the ceiling.
but upstairs is all updated . This is Lori's office
This is called the zipper building by the locals. It was originally a factory for Dickies, the work clothes and belt making company. Dickies belts were advertised as having a feather edge, thus the feather at the end of the zipper.
The city also bought this building for use as additional office space but the zipper stays. I guess if you were trying to tell someone where to find a certain office and said it is in the zipper building, there would be no question as to which building they were talking about.
I think the architect of this church was really a bird house designer.
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