Early on in Joanna Brady\u2019s relationship with Butch Dixon, he gave her a Colt 2000 as a gift.\u00a0 Birthday present?\u00a0 Mother\u2019s Day?\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember which book it was, but it must have been a fairly early Joanna Brady because, at the time I wrote it, the Colt 2000 was brand new and supposedly the latest and greatest.<\/p>\n
Except, it turns out that it wasn\u2019t the greatest at all.\u00a0 The handgun in question had reliability problems, including failure to extract spent shell casings.\u00a0 There were accuracy issues as well as a recall.\u00a0 Four years later it was withdrawn from the market.\u00a0 Once I became aware of the issue, Joanna replaced her Colt 2000 with a Glock and has remained a GG (Glock Girl) ever since.<\/p>\n
This week, while perusing the Internet, my husband found an article by Warrior Maven listing the top 5 worst hand guns ever made, and guess what.\u00a0 The Colt 2000 was front and center.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly enough, reading the article made me think about my mother, Evie Busk.\u00a0 She was a farm girl, so there\u2019s a good chance she may have fired a weapon on occasion, but I personally never witnessed it.\u00a0 So why should an article about the demise of the Colt 2000 make me think about her?<\/p>\n
There were seven kids in our family.\u00a0 That meant that most of the time when we were growing up, she cooked three meals a day for nine people, doing so without benefit of either a microwave or an electronic dishwasher.\u00a0 When my father retired from the insurance business, she laid down the law:\u00a0 \u201cIf you\u2019re retiring, I\u2019m retiring.\u00a0 The kitchen is closed!\u201d<\/p>\n
And she made it stick.\u00a0 From then on they mostly went out for two meals a day, breakfast and a very early dinner.\u00a0 They had several favorite haunts in and around Bisbee, but they also favored the truck stop at Road Forks, New Mexico, for some reason, as well as the Triple T, in Tucson.\u00a0 Why not have a drive and a bit of an adventure with your evening meal?<\/p>\n
They often dined at a place called Dixie\u2019s Caf\u00e9 in Bisbee, a long closed cafe recreated in the Joanna Brady books as Daisy\u2019s.\u00a0 Everyone in town knew Norm and Evie, and one day one of the Dixie regular\u2019s came up to the table and took exception with the idea that I had put a non-existent weapon in one of my books.<\/p>\n
My mother may not have known a whole lot about handguns, but she knew her daughter.\u00a0 She took the poor guy straight to the mat and told him in no uncertain terms that if Judy put it in the book, she had a good reason to do so\u2014and don\u2019t you forget it, either!!\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he knew what hit him.<\/p>\n
As for Evie?<\/p>\n
I miss her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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