TheBanyanTree: You can't bury a cow here

[Theta Brentnall]

Only the cowboys' pride.  The animals came off just fine.  You could 
practically see them snickering.  I was glad to see that the bull riders 
now wear protective vests and helmets with face guards.   I have seen 
bull riders seriously hurt when their heads came in contact with the 
bull's horns.  We saw the rider who was favoring a leg later and he was 
walking okay, so no major damage done.

The best bare back ride was one where the horse came out of the chute, 
did a couple of crow-hops and then just stood there.  The cowboy was 
kicking and waving his hands and the horse just stood there.  The cowboy 
yelled, "Damn it!  Do something!" and the horse took one jump sideways 
and left the cowboy sitting on air.  The horse turned around, looked at 
him as if to say, "what you doing down there?" and then he calmly 
trotted over to the gate and said he was done for the day.  Everyone was 
laughing and the poor cowboy stomped out of the arena swearing.  The 
officials decided to give him another ride and the second horse 
performed with much more artistry, and he ended up being the only cowboy 
that made it to the buzzer, so he was the only bareback rider who got 
some points.

Theta

On 9/6/2012 4:05 PM, Sally Larwood wrote:
> No one hurt?
>
> Sal
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 07/09/2012, at 7:17, Theta Brentnall <tybrent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We went to a rodeo last Sunday in the little down just down the road from the place we were camping. Great fun and I'll be putting up pictures on my blog soon, but we also came away with a new family saying:
>>
>> "Put on your big girl pants and ride."
>>
>> It was advice given to the rodeo queen and her court (all 6th and 7th graders) by their mentor, and they obviously took it to heart because all of them used it in their biographical write-ups.
>>
>> A lot of the riders needed to have a pair of big girl pants.  The score was:
>> bareback broncs - 4, riders - 1
>> saddle broncs - 6, riders - 1
>> bulls - 8, riders -2 (but one of them hopped out of the arena on one leg)
>> in steer wrestling, steers 8, wrestlers 2  Some of those steers have been to one too many rodeos:  They knew if they kept running that they were going to get thrown down, so they just slammed on the brakes right outside the chute and the rider and his hazer blew right on by them.
>>
>> It was such a fun rodeo!
>>
>> Theta
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/5/2012 6:18 PM, Peter Macinnis wrote:
>>> This has become a family saying (we travelled with three cousins): "This is dry country: you could bury three cows here, no worries", or "You couldn't bury a cow here, but you might just be able to dispose of a budgie, if you worked fast..."
>>>
>>> Small things amuse small minds: one has to work hard to be amused by the burial of cows.
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