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Todd & Tina Woodson

Todd was a country boy and grew up having horses. I was a town girl and didn’t. Todd’s introduction to saddles was a 1917 McClullen Army Saddle. Every saddle from then on was an improvement. I didn’t know a McClullen Army Saddle even existed. Todd’s family raised every kind of farm animal you can imagine. I had a dog. Todd worked for neighbors throughout his childhood bailing hay, picking up rocks, cutting corn out of beans and whatever odd jobs there were to do. I, as a child, went to the swimming pool everyday until I was old enough to get a job in the nice, air conditioned grocery store. So you are probably wondering by now how in the world we ever got together. Well we did and the story begins...

After graduation Todd enlisted in the army and I went to college. When he had finished his 3 year enlistment he came home and bought an acreage not far from where he grew up. I also moved back home after college and we were married. We lived on that acreage for 30 years. Here we raised our son and daughter. Not to mention cattle, pigs, sheep and bucket calves and of course, mules, horses and donkeys. Now you are wondering how I adapted, right? I came to love country living and the animals quickly. Bucket calves were my favorite and sheep my least. The sheep seems to think I was a target when I walked in the pasture and inevitably would get butted and knocked down. Anyway, I'm getting off track...

During what Todd likes to call his “mid-life crisis” (which wasn’t in his mid life) he went to Wyoming to be a guide for an outfitter. The kids and I kept the home fires burning. We visited him in Wyoming and he would come home for a week or so at a time. But when he came home he was rarely alone. One trip he brought a horse home that someone had abandoned in the mountains. Fine. But we soon discovered she was pregnant. Another time he brought a momma donkey and her baby. And finally came Babydoll, a mule that had never been touched by a human. You guessed it, he went back to Wyoming. The kids and I did a pretty darn good job of taking care of our little herd.

After a couple years guiding he came back home. Working for the outfitter he learned to shoe horses and repair tack and saddles. So he started his own shoeing business. In the winter when shoeing was slower he repaired saddles and tack. After a few years of shoeing, a back injury, a double barrel kick to the chest and shoulder surgery, not to mention broken toes, fingers and stitches his doctor and I convinced him it was time for a career change. So he began repairing saddles and tack full time. He restored a couple of saddles from the tree out and they were beautiful! He really enjoyed (and still does) the leather work. He likes to tell people that “saddles don’t kick and they don’t bite”.

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