Like everyone else here ... I am an avid big game hunter and I try to hunt as much as I possibly can. Every year I sneak off to my little hunting camp in Northern Namibia for a month or so .... I often hunt in Montana, certainly Alberta, and actually quite a lot in South America. And because these trips normally are interesting (at least to me) and full of laughs and misadventures and bungling .... I have gotten into the habit of writing books about them. I figure that some day when I lose all of my marbles I can drag out one of those books and see what I used to do for fun. The first book that I ever wrote was called, 'The Last Jungle Cat' ... and I took the title when I found out that the guides in the jungles of Bolivia were calling me that. I took it as a great compliment until I thnought about it a bit and realized that there was a television show back then called the 'Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo' ... He had a deputy called Perkins .. beady eyed varmint with little hair and a bit of a gut .. who always thought that the women were after him (they weren't) and whenever it was time to get on a case he would crouch and quietly say, 'It is time for the jungle cat to spring into action !' One internet site many years later described him as being really stupid ... (I'm not sure where my guide got that idea. Another book was called, 'You Stole My Thunder' ... after I whacked a bigger leopard (on the same day) than my buddy and that was his comment ... Another one was called, ' Are You Ready?' after my great Uruguayan amigos were making fun of a famous PH who started his videos with that term ...

Anyways ... my partner in the little camp in Namibia is a wonderful very colorful chap who is a Viet Nam vet, ex Idaho smoke jumper, etc... dude who often uses the term, 'Rode Hard and Put Away Wet' from his earlier experiences with horses and such ... I just finished this last book on hunting in Canada, Montana, Australia, and Namibia and thought of a really rough boat ride we went through on a fishing trip in the Atlantic off of Swapkomund .... and so I named my book 'Rode Hard and Put Away Wet'....

The other day I decided to check out to see if it was listed on Amazon.ca ... and so it was. I then checked on Barnes and Noble ... and once again it was there .. for sale. And then I glanced under my book to find another one of the same title ... and read ... ' lesbian cowboy erotica .... '
I hope that my gray haired mama don't end up ordering the wrong one ...

That's really funny. Both books would be a good read!!!

the chef

Hi Scruffy;
Given the number of "writers" out there today, it's prety hard to come up with an original title. The first time I ever heard this phrase was when someone referred to a mutual aquaintance, a particularly hard, well used looking, woman. It's now one of my favorite.