Leyden & Sons Leather Bag Co.

04/26/2014

Nebraska looks flatter than usual today, but that's part of its charm.

04/22/2014

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home..."

- John Muir

04/20/2014

Busy this sunday? If you've got a moment, take some time to review the Marquess of Queensberry's rules for fighting fair. You never know, they could come in handy someday...

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/366079/Marquess-of-Queensberry-rules

Code of rules that most directly influenced modern boxing. Written by John Graham Chambers, a member of the British Amateur Athletic Club, the rules were first published in 1867 under the sponsorship of...

04/17/2014

"Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

- Mark Twain

04/15/2014

Fellow outdoorsmen: if you see Old Man Winter while you're walking along today, kindly punch him in the nose for us.

04/14/2014

If April showers bring May flowers, what the heck do April snowstorms bring?

04/13/2014

Hey Midwesterners, batten down the hatches, there's a storm a-brewin'.

04/12/2014

Who's working on a Saturday?
We work every day, so we're right there with ya, buddy.

04/11/2014

Shot of the oldest leatherworking tools...more than 40,000 years old. They were not actually made by modern humans, but rather Neanderthals. We're ashamed to admit they thought of it first.

04/10/2014

“ A mere life of ease is not in the end a very satisfactory life, and, above all, it is a life which ultimately unfits those who follow it for serious work in the world.”
- Theodore Roosevelt

Pictured Below: Roosevelt sporting his "get back to work" face.

04/09/2014

It takes a lot of work to cut pastrami into tissue-thin slices by hand, but we can now say that it's totally worth it...particularly if there's a loaf of rye bread nearby.