Family Secrets

I've spent an hour with Ooch this morning, and am due to walk the red kids this afternoon, as they are at the groomers' this morning. Jim is mowing the apartment yard, so I have the patio door closed, as the kits think the mower will eat them alive.  The Encore Western Channel has begun showing a Canadian-made series called Dead Man's Gun that was aired from 1997 through 1999.  It's an interesting anthology show that follows the path of a "cursed" .45 that gets passed from person to person; yesterday, the episode starred Ted Shackleford as "The Mesmerist."  I was amazed at how well written, acted, and directed that episode was - and, of course, it had it's spooky "from beyond the grave" sequence - and that was well done, too.  I'm going to have to start watching this series - Kris Kristofferson is the narrator for all three seasons.
  VT returned to the Arapahoe Village Shopping Center today.  He is still training Chris, his replacement, and he will be here on Thursdays and Fridays for a while.   That way I can get my weekly dose of Russian testosterone, and not miss chatting with him so badly.  He'll be here this Monday, working with Chris.
  While digging up more information on one of Jim's cousins for the Snow family tree, I hit a gold-mine on Franklin Benjamin Sanborn...  He was one of the "Secret Six" who supplied money and arms to John Brown both in Kansas, and before the Harper's Ferry Raid.  He also lived in Concord, Massachusetts, and was good friends with Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, the Alcott family, and he proposed marriage to Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter.  When she refused him, he wrote rather nasty letters to both of her parents, and they wrote nasty letters back, and "became quite cool" towards him.  ... I do find history fascinating!