Tom Mix Museum

We have been working hard at Amazon.com. It is really physical work with a lot of heavy lifting. They try to keep the weight of the totes to 23 lbs but I know some of those totes loaded with books weighed more than that. I never knew Amazon.com sold so much stuff. They have a lot of apparel, toys, kitchen items and some high tech stuff. I have switched my job to receiving instead of stowing. Now I get to load the totes. But since I know how hard it is to lift some of them, I am careful not to load them to heavy!!

November 8th we start on mandatory OT working 4 - 11 hour days. We will start work from 5:00am to 4:30pm. After thanksgiving we will probably by working 5 - 11 hour days!! Hope we survive!!

Last week on our days off, we went to the Tom Mix Museum in Dewey, Oklahoma. It was very interesting. Here are some pictures.


Tom Mix was doing stunt shows when he started doing bit parts in Selig films. As his popularity grew so did the roles. He changed the image of the west by portraying a romantic figure of the mythic west. He rode Tony the Wonder Horse. Tony stood 14 hands and knew 20 different tricks and stunts.



Tom Mix was a Texas Ranger at one time and he also was the sheriff of Dewey, Oklahoma.

After all of the stunts he did over his career, Tom was killed in a car accident when driving at very high speeds, his car went into a ditch. He was killed when one of his suitcases hit him on the head and broke his neck.

Hopefully, next week it will be nice enough on our days off to go to 'Little House on the Prairie'. The homestead of Laura Ingals Wilder isn't far from Independence, Kansas.