The kids left a little bit after we all went out for lunch, then and then Lori and I settled in to wrapping things up for the day. I went and met the guys for cigars and was home a little after 7. When I walked in, I immediately could tell Lori wasn’t feeling well. Somehow, (we think from this one patient a couple days ago) she picked something up and bam, she was down. Hope she’s doing better today. Ty strolled in a little after me with pizza from Il Mago for us.
Nice outside with a slight cloud cover and temps in the 50’s. As I said yesterday, you can tell Fall is right around the corner. Way up high, the leaves are starting to do their thing. Soon it’ll all be yellow and gold. Pretty sunrises and sunsets accompany the days as they get shorter and shorter. Kids are going back to school and football kicks off in about a week. Fall really is the best time of the year.
Tomorrow I’m headed down to the Omni in Broomfield for Cigar Fest. It sells out quick, but Shultz secured two tickets for us. Andres and Clark are working it for 10th Mountain Whisky so they can get in. Should be fun. Lori will stay home, and I’ll be back by 4 or so at the latest.
Yesterday I received a call from a guy I’ve been talking to for probably six months or so. He works at one of the finest high end bespoke firearm dealers in the Country back east. There’s a rifle maker, John Rigby & Co., out of London, who is the most prestigious historical rifle maker in the World. They’ve made rifles for everyone from the likes of Ernest Hemmingway to every King of the U.K. since they were founded in 1775. They are arguably the finest rifle maker in the World. Long story short, through numerous conversations, I told my acquaintance what they need to do to sell rifles in America. They’re the number one choice for big game in Africa and Europe but over here, they don’t do so well. This is for a number of reasons too numerous to get in to. Anyhow, the President of this company back east, ended up sharing my thoughts through multiple conversations with the President of Rigby, and they want to build a line of rifles based on my specifications for the western big game hunter. Next step is an introductory call with me and their designers so they can get my thoughts straight from me, on exactly what to build and how to price and market it to hunters here in the U.S. Pretty exciting. I never imagined that they would take my thoughts and actually make it into a rifle. More on that to come, but I plan on getting serial number 1 of the new line of the Rigby Western Big Game Hunter (that’s what I named it) rifles. More to come, but what fun. We’ll see where it goes. I have a few guys that each want one of the new rifles, as they’ll surely be collector items in short order.
Lori just walked out, she sounds all stuffed up and congested. Hope she kicks this today. 6:46 now, time to put out the trash. Have a great Friday and God Bless.