Category: WesGPS’ Stories

The Great Shetland Pony Incident

  The Twins, a pony, a dog, and a birthday party to remember. The very first people that I remember socializing with outside of my family is a set of twins who, at the time lived just up the street…

The Copperhead And The Kaiser Blade Incident

In the first of these few short essays about snakes I told you about a somewhat humorous engagement I had with a common coachwhip snake when I was a small child. My next encounter with a snake was one that, at least to me, was not at all humorous and in fact had a degree of danger attending it.

The Coachwhip And The Funeral Incident

This short story is a somewhat humorous telling of an event that happened to me after attending a funeral when I was a small child. The principal characters were a common coachwhip snake and me.

Sam The Sheepdog

This short story is about a humorous event that took place while conducting a very long cross country survey in Western Colorado. The characters involved were a “Barbara Stanwyck” type rancher matriarch, my gunner Ignacio Antonio Romo, me, and a dog named Sam.

Burt And The Cowboys

This short story is about an event that took place while conducting a very long cross country survey in Western Colorado. The characters involved a “John Wayne” type helicopter pilot and his wife, some old west cowboys, my gunner Ignacio Antonio Rome, and me.