There’s a lot to do this summer, but I’m afraid there’s not enough summer to get it all done. I already missed the Platte River Photography Workshop, which is a bummer, because I’ve been wanting to go to that for the last several years. I’ve got my eye on a few other wildlife and landscape photo workshops over the summer, but I also need to be able to sneak in some weekends for fishing and camping trips. I’m hoping to be able to take my wife to my old childhood camping spot up in the Bridger-Teton Wilderness, and that’ll be one of those trips that requires a few days of vacation from work to get done.
The other big event I’m hoping to do is coming up the first few days of June. It’s not really an outdoor thing, but I’m looking forward to it all the same. It’s a class where I’ll learn how to start making custom cowboy hats.
My family gave me a custom hat for my birthday last year, and the only trouble with it is that now I can’t wear any of my old hats. They just don’t fit like that custom one does. But custom hats are expensive, so I can’t afford another one. And I need a brown one, and a gray one, and probably a silverbelly, too. So this class will get me to where I can start making them myself.
The trouble is, they need a minimum of eight students to run the class, and they’re a couple short of that right now. So if you’re interested in learning to make cowboy hats, too, and to learn from Tom Hirt, who is one of the most recognized hat makers around, get yourself registered. Just do a Google search for hat making classes at Trinidad State College, and you’ll find it.
Come down to Trinidad in early June and learn to make hats. We can go fishing in the evenings, too. I hope to see you there.
