I hate Taco hats, AND Flat hats....wanna know why?

ADRIAN BUCKAROOGIRL 

And so...it begins.

"What is your **** problem? You're a traitor and probably are gonna tie on now aren't you?"

"Ohmygosh good for you! I love it!"

"Did your dad actually LET you get that?"

"Who made that hat?! I want one!"

"Don't ever come back to Nevada."

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU BUCKAROOGIRL?!"

These are just a couple of the letters I've gotten since I posted a few pictures last night of my new lid from Kevin Murphy. I am still giggling over some of them! 

I knew when I ordered a new hat from Kevin (My hat sponsor form Santa Ynez) that I was going to do something different. I wasn't sure what it really was going to BE...but I had a pretty good idea! Kevin was so sweet when I came to him with what I wanted. I had very definite ideas about it, and because Mr. Murphy is such an artist and goes along with my CRAZY ideas...he produced something even better than I ever could have imagined. 

I LOVE my flat hat. I'm from the great basin and my daddy wore them that way, so I did too.

I found my own style, and having someone like Kevin who can build such beautiful works of art really made it come alive for me. But sometimes don't you just feel like a change? 

I did. But it's a change for a reason.

I think our hat shapes are tearing the cowboy world apart. 

What is wrong with our culture?

We are cowboys. All of us. It doesn't matter if you are from Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, or bloody MICHIGAN! 

If you are a cowboy (or whatever the hell you want to call yourself) You are apart of a very small and disappearing group of men and women who are not understood or appreciated for the most part nowadays. 

The outside world and progress is creeping further and further towards us, and instead of banding TOGETHER to protect our commonly loved way of life, I see folks from different parts of the country fighting and making fun of each other within there OWN world! 

What the HECK is up with that?

I don't give a damn if you rope tied on (I want to learn how by the way) 

Carry a big long rope (I do)

Or ride a Shetland pony.

We all use different gear and styles of doing things BECAUSE we are from different parts of the country. If you have the room out in the high desert of Nevada, you can afford to use 65 ft of rope and take your time choking that big black cow. You can have pretty fancy silver on your rig that wont rub off and not have to wear chinks even. 

If you're working in rough country in Texas, most likely you want to tie on and get that cow caught before she hits the next big stretch of brush! And you probably want batwings so your legs aren't torn to hell. And a tough horse. 

This doesn't make one group of people better than another, it just means that we are all from different parts of the country. We have the same job, we just have to do it different ways. 

Personally, I hope folks will see past my new hat shape and come together as a dying breed with a common goal-to survive. 

That's really what any of us can hope for really and truly isn't it? 

That as a minority, cowboys-buckaroos-punchers-drovers-wranglers-heck, I don't care WHAT you call yourself-we stick together and stand up for our way of life that we love.

Hat shapes be damned. 

(PS. the real reason this new hat is awesome...it stays on in the dang wind no matter what!)

Love to each and every one of you! 

xoxo

~Adrian

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