Jeremiah Watt

We build a line of tools and also saddle hardware for the leather trades, and because of that we also find ourselves traveling to various shows to represent our work. Between my wife and I we take turns at hitting the out of town shows, and we usually take one or another of our kids with us. Since we home school our children, it works out quite easy to take school with us when we travel, between the text book stuff and the local Museums in what ever town we are in it seems too work out quite well.

As parents we strongly encourage our kids to engage in capitalism.........there is no such thing as an allowance around this place. The rule is if you want some green in your pocket you need to get out and go to work on something to remedy the situation. So my daughter Nevada, is doing some stamp work on silver, such things as scarf slides etc. While my boy Pine, takes care of the larger items such as concho belts and conchos for spur straps. They have done quite well with it all, and have made enough at it to Bank a little. I think that they are about due to invest some of that money into the stock market now.

My kids both ride, although it is Nevada who is the real horse nut amongst them. All of us get horseback, my wife does a good job of getting the kids out on the horses. She will load up kids and books on the horses and then head into the hills to do a days school with them, sitting under the huge Oaks that dot the landscape of this area. Pine is an avid reader, and likes the big books that are thrillers and mysteries, the Tom Clancy type novels. Whiel Nevada tends towards the love stories such as Pride and Prejudise type stuff.........CHICK BOOKS we tease her.

All in all, nothing feels quite right when my wife and kids are gone, and nothing feels better than when they are finally backhome with me.