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Do Greek cowboys wear chaps too?

My Honey and The Bandit have been working on the cutest project and I’ve been dying to share it with you.

Remember how in love with cowboys and horses The Bandit was? Well nothing has changed as he turned six. He also loves cars and Army men and Nerf guns and Pokemon and Bakugan and Transformers and all things little boys love, but the horses and cowboy infatuation has never got away.  He still plans on being a cowboy/jet fighter pilot/hockey player when he grows up. I don’t know how that is actually going to work, but I’m not inclined to dampen his desire.  Not really crazy about how dangerous any of those jobs are, but there’s still a chance he’ll growing into accounting.

Look at that. I went off on a tangent. Who’d have thought.

Anyway…. The Bandit asked his father to draw a horse the other day. Well, Daddy went one better and before I knew it we had a whole complex Western town paper doll set going on. There is a saloon and a jail house several cowboys, gunfighters and horses.  It’s really quite cool.  My Honey has aways been very good at drawing.  If I’m asked to draw a horse – oh happy Zeus, it ends up looking like an amoeba with a mane. My grandmother was an artist.  She made a living at it.  I did not inherit a single artistic gene.  Not a one. That’s probably why I find this project so incredibly delightful.

Bandit sets up the parts of the town and incorporates his plastic horse models in his play. 

this just the coolest thing? 

I love that the Saloon has a sign that says, “Check guns at the door” and that beer is 5 cents. 

Also, the doors swing open and closed. I love the details.

Did you note the bullet holes in the windows and walls? Apparently, this is a really wild Cow Town.

The jail has has wanted posters on the bulletin board outside the door.

I’m going to ask him to make me a model of Greece. I’m going to take it to my office and when I’m feeling desperate because my soul is nearly gone, sucked clean from my body, I’m going to crawl under my desk and practice my Greek alphabet: πάρτε την κόλαση από εδώ.

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