Golden’s big community festival – Buffalo Bill Days – happened this past weekend. We checked out the music on Friday and Saturday nights, ate at the Firemen’s pancake breakfast on Saturday morning, and attended the community worship service on Sunday. (To our friends back in Texas, the band on Saturday night was the Dallas-based country act 1100 Springs, and they were pretty darn good.)
The highlight of the weekend was mutton-bustin’. For the uninitiated, this is an event where kids between 40 and 60 pounds don long-sleeved shirts, blue jeans, flak jackets, and helmets and then attempt to ride sheep – sheep that are rather unenthusiastic about the prospects of being ridden by 40 to 60 pound children. There were a few nasty falls and more than a few tears shed, but I don’t think any of the kids or the sheep were irreparably harmed. Mostly, it was hilarious.
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