2 runs + 2 checks = Good Day

I had a barrel race in Rosenberg yesterday. I ran Shiner and Badger.  Badger and I missed our first barrel a bit, but we did well on the other two barrels.  That cost us a little time and money, but I was happy with the run.  We ended up 6th in the 2D.

I am doing well in the 5D so I decided to try and win the 5D saddle on Shiner.  We coasted in there and had a nice first turn.  He stumbled on the 2nd, but was able to recover and do fine on the 3rd.  We ran out and had a perfect time to place 3rd in the 5D. 

Work is kicking my butt this year.  To say I'm busy is an understatement.  There are so many changes this year.  It's hard keeping up with it all.  I sure hope it slows down before my blood pressure starts reflecting the stress.

Shelby is doing well and is finally adjusting to me working full time again.  It was hard on both of us. Shelby had many melt downs those first two weeks, but now she's getting into the groove and getting used to everything.

I am uploading videos of our run.  I'll add the links after they upload.  It's taking a while.

Fun Times

Tonight we had practice with the Rodeo Sweethearts.  We had an exciting event I had to share.  One of the girls had a her horse spook and get out a little from underneath her.  Enough to make her lose her balance a little while carrying the flag.  She tried to catch her balance, but wasn't able to and ended up bailing off.  In the meantime, the flag is still in the boot and dragging next to her horse.  It is FREAKING her horse out.  Poor thing!  Well the horse goes flying around the arena, desperate for help.  I stay on Badger as the horse comes flying by and Badger freaks and quickly scoots to the left...I mean QUICKLY....I grab the horn and about lose my seat.  The horse with the flag turns around and comes running by us again (with flag dragging on the ground) and that's when Badger bucks.  SOmehow, he got me over the front horn and I'm sitting on his shoulders in FRONT of the saddle.  I grab both reins and say a quick prayer that he won't turn one way or the other quickly cause i would've been off.  I then was able to stop him and bounce back over the saddle.

My lesson?  The importance of riding in a saddle that fits you.  :)  I was in Ryan's saddle....

Luckily, the girl that fell of is ok and just had a scrape on the back of her head.  Her ride was WAY more eventful than mine.

I am going to enjoy the last two days with Shelby and then I'm back full time on Monday.  :(

This weekend I have a barrel race and after how quick Badger was I am looking forward to running him.  He felt great!

Nothing New

The summer is winding down as we get up for a new school year and cooler temps.

This week I took Badger to Bryan, TX to a vet that specializes in lameness. He has been off in the backend and so we decided to have him looked at. So i drove the two hours north.

The vet could tell he was lame and did some X-rays to find his hock is fusing and causing him some pain. Not the greatest news, but it wasn't terrible news. So we need to give him bute daily and batamine when we compete on him. Eventually his hocks will fuse and the pain will go away. It may take him awhile.

So I load the horses with my plan to go to the George Ranch for practice i go to crank my truck up and it just clicks. I go back inside to ask for a jump. I was hoping that would work. It didn't. Long story, short - one of the guys, Matt, took out my batteries. Mrs.Honnas, the vets wife, took me to auto zone and then o'reilley where they said it would be $ 240 to replace two batteries that were ~3 years old and had an 8 year warranty. I asked why they weren't prorating the batteries. They talked some more and then didn't charge me anything. Praise God!

So now it is 5:15, 2 hrs since i discovered my batteries were dead. I drove back to Richmond to meet with the girls to ride at 7:30. A long day, but a good way to show how great and helpful people are in the horse world!!!

The rest of the week has been less exciting which was good. :-)

Ryan has been very busy with his work. It is wonderful to not have the rent house mortgage to pay anymore! I know he is thankful to have some
Money leftover after he deposits his checks. :-).

He is going to a ranch rodeo on Saturday. I wish I could go, but it is in the evening and so I have to stay with Shelby.

That's it for now. Writing on my iPhone hurts my wrist.


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