District Horse Show

Wow! Where did July go?
Parents came home and are gone again...to Chicago this time.
Went to Bear Lake for a week for the Reunion...Awesome (pictures later maybe)
Got called as 1st councilor in the Elders Quorum...explains why I don't have any more time!

Anyway, I do want to post about the District horse show I was in Yesterday and Friday. It was a ton of fun! I've never been to a horse show let alone competed in one so it was a great experience.

My first event, and only one on Friday, was the Pony Express. The Pony Express is a relay where your horse is unsaddled and there is a saddle in a circle out in the arena. You must lead your horse to the circle, put the saddle on, ride around a barrel at the end of the arena and come back, take the saddle off and then lead your horse back across the starting line. There are five people on one team. It took our team just under 5 min. for all five of us to go. We totally smoked everyone! The bad news was that after all the events were over with then the people in charge talked it over and said we were disqualified. Them talking it over is illegal so we should have won, but we didn't protest because we moved on to Region just because there weren't enough teams to go. The other event that I helped with was the ribbon pull. This is a race to see who can pull a ribbon off of a steers back the fastest. I was running the chutes to let the cows out. Well you have to move the steers to the front of the chute to get them to come out right and to get them to the front you grab their tails and pull the tails forward, and this gets them to move forward. Well I went to grab one of them by the tail and little did I know it had just crapped all over its tail! It was nasty!
So Saturday morning came bright and early. I was up at 5 so we could get everything ready and get there on time. This is on the ride up, my sister-in-law was caught taking a little nap!
When we got there I was informed that I was in the Potato Race! I was just an alternate but someone dropped out so I was in. In the potato race there are two barrels, one on each side of the arena. One has 12 potatoes in it and the other is empty. You ride your horse to the first one and stab a potato with this lance you have in your hand, you then ride back to the second barrel and fling the potato back into the barrel and then cross the finish line and hand off the lance to the next person in line. Well I had never done this in a cowboy hat and my horse was being stupid so we missed the potato and had to go back to pick it up. Luckily we still placed forth which is good enough to move on to region!
The last event I did is called Wild Cow Milking! This was a ton of fun. The release a bunch of wild momma cows out into the arena. Then there are two guys on a team. The first one is on horseback and has to rope one of the cows. The second guy runs up and has to "mug" the cow, which basically means he has to manhandle the cow while the first guy comes and tries to milk the cow. He just has to get enough for a drop of milk to run out of the bottle. Well I was the mugger and my brother the roper/milker. It took us about a minute and a forty five seconds to rope the cow and then we got it mugged and milked in about ten, only to run down to the circle and before we could turn the bottle and dump out the milk the time had expired. Luckily only two teams actually posted a time so they are letting us move on to region! Oh and I should mention that our cow had horns about a foot and a half long, and she wanted to use them against me!
Overall the two days was a ton of fun! I invite everyone to come to Region on Aug. 22-23 in Logan to see me wrestle a huge milk cow that has never been milked before! We will also be competing in a club drill event where we will all be wearing the same matching outfit.
I should mention, that if you see a cowboy with his hat tipped down....it means he's looking for a fight!
And if you see a cowboy with his hat tipped up...then you've got a happy cowboy!