#rob walters

official horsie Walters appreciation post

(@sharkneto's OCs from his shifting together series)

Sarah is off to kill those self defense instructors from ch 17 of joining together; bundled up Rob is from his first appearance in ch 1 of holding it together

[ID: three drawings of the Walters, a couple who are typically regular humans but at the moment are centaurs. Sarah is a white woman with long brown hair, and in the centaur au her horse body is red and white speckled with a brown tail. Rob is a white man with brown hair, and his current horse body is also brown. His legs are darker, but he also has white socks.

The first image is both of them side by side, demonstrating the horse designs.

The second is of Sarah, trotting briskly and angrily while she talks on the phone. The person on the other end (Amanda) says "and one of the instructors broke Five's nose!" Sarah says "Oh, REALLY."

SPRINGTIME SCENES IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 

Spring time took forever this year.  

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RAILROADS - NEBRASKA

Then the railroads came. The town was elated when Abraham Lincoln selected Council Bluffs as the terminal of the Union Pacific Line; later, engineers and Douglas County bonds brought it across the river to Omaha. In 1863 the construction of the Union Pacific formally began. Two years later, the first train from Omaha ran to Salings' Grove with Gen. W.T. Sherman, of Civil War fame, and 20 leading citizens riding on flat cars with nail kegs for seats. 

—Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State (WPA, 1939)

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LIQUOR STORES - OMAHA, NEBRASKA

The Omaha map of alcohol outlets shows 68102 as the ZIP code area with the highest concentration of alcohol outlets, at 19.7 per 1,000 residents. The 68102 ZIP code is located within Douglas County and includes the following notable locations: the Old Market, TD Ameritrade Park, CenturyLink Center, Omaha Civic Auditorium and Convention Center, and Heartland of America Park.

Data Source: Nebraska Liquor Control Commission; United States Census Bureau

—"Underage Drinking In Nebraska," University of Nebraska Medical Center (August, 2013)

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SUMMERFEST RODEO - O'NEILL, NEBRASKA 

With the railroads came the combination farmer and stockman; sandhill Sundays were ranch Sundays; and the corral was the scene of informal rodeos or scratching matches, in which cowpunchers showed off before the girls by scratching (roweling or raking with spurs) horses that were sullen and refused to pitch.

— Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State (WPA, 1939)

Modern rodeo is said to have originated in Nebraska. In 1882, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody held a rodeo-like event called the "Old Glory Blowout" in North Platte—a precursor to his world-famous Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows. Whether or not Nebraska holds title to the first, it certainly has a long history of rodeos.

In that tradition, the town of O'Neill, just south of the South Dakota borderline, holds the Summerfest Rodeo each year in early July. 

(Information from the Nebraska State Historical Society)

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