Curley wears a black glove to protect a Vaselined hand; he wants to keep it soft for his wife (the pretty and pretty hopeless Leighton Meester), who wants nothing so much as to hang around the guys, in their bunkhouse.
They had to split from their work as itinerant laborers because of some trouble Lennie got into, and now they're starting again, on a ranch that's being overseen by a short, angry man named Curley Alex Morff), whose wife (the pretty and pretty hopeless Leighton Meester) wants nothing so much as to hang around the guys, in their bunkhouse.
They were promptly evicted from their bunkhouses.
Half the group huddled at 11 the next evening to keep working on the Mozart while the others headed off to their bunkhouses.
He wrote music that was especially suited for small, simple musical instruments -- like the harmonica, fiddle, and guitar -- reminiscent of the typical instruments used by cowboys in their bunkhouses or while sitting around their campfires at night.
Lambert's girlfriend is the folk singer Amy Cook, and the two split their time between the bungalow and "the Bunkhouse," their ranch in the Davis Mountains foothills.
I met the team in the evening at the end of Day 12 of their search, at the bunkhouse where they were drying their socks and planning the next day.
After having to pay for their lodging (either hotel, bunkhouse spot or in someone's van), their own travel, as well as food on the road, it's difficult to keep afloat.
The pickers had been assigned their own rustic bunkhouses, lined up in a row along the quiet grassy shore of the river.
The chapel, a cross still visible on the exterior, is now their workshop, and a former bunkhouse stores plants being processed for seed.
In the distance, they could see a cluster of outbuildings on their property: an old horse barn, a bunkhouse, a washhouse (where Martin's ancestors made soap and did their laundry), a kennel building, and a quonset hut they had long ago converted into a storage shed for grain and tractors.
