Tink Elordi would come with his family and start about 60 head of 2 yr olds every summer. Tom would come stay a couple weeks, over a dozen Buckaroos would have a variety of issues with the 120 cavvy horses they’d get help with. He’d help a few of us that had show horses with pointers on cow working, sliding, spinning, lead changes and whatever we wanted to work on. It was always interesting how he’d get to the bottom of things. First he’d get a clear understanding of what our objective was, then help us see from the horses perspective what was preventing it. That concept has helped me more with handling cattle and horses than anything in my toolbox.
Van Normans, Marvels, and other friends and family stopped in to take in what they could.
Sam Marvel and my two boys started their first colts with Tom when they were 7-10 years old in a smaller corral and 8 or 10 men were in the big corral beside them, all going at the same time.

Tom was a master of orchestrating what could be chaos for most.
His talent didn’t stop with horses, he was good with kids, engineering, construction, welding, most anything on the ranch he put his mind too.

Good memories of good times, good horses, good people, and good experiences with Tom.