As most of you know, I’ve been running in a summer barrel racing series about 80 miles west of here. Last night was the conclusion of that series and as I mentioned yesterday, I was winning the buckle in the 4D. For those of you unfamiliar with the D-System, or Divisional system, here’s a brief [...]
In the past two days I’ve ridden three different horses for a minimum of 25 miles. Zach and I moved a couple hundred pairs of cattle. Cleared our AI pasture (named for the fact that it used to house the cattle they’d artificially inseminate), the Saddle Horse Pasture (because that’s where the saddle horses live), [...]
This was a weekend to be remembered for many years to come. And not altogether in a good way. Friday morning I discovered that my chicks had started hatching. My favorite black hen, had hatched her one egg- with a big fat little black chick. He was following her around and was sooooooooo adorable! A [...]
I have been too busy, and then too lazy, when I do get home, to post some videos. Here’s a run from the first of June: Here’s a run from last week: This Wednesday, I took our interns, Kara and Emily, to the barrel race in Onida, SD. I ran my gray mare, Nora, and [...]
I really wanted to get caught up on my life with some semblance of organization, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen, so I’m just going to fly by the seat of my pants. I’ve pretty much done that for the past week anyway, so what’s a couple more days, right? We headed out [...]
Because the window for high school rodeo season is short, here in South Dakota, we have a couple rodeos on Memorial Day Weekend. Kelsey only opted to go to one- yesterday! And it was fun! She made her first ever pole run in competition- and you could see Pommel going, “huh? what’re we doin’ Kels”? [...]
While I’m aware that it’s not actually summer, the summer barrel racing series that we attend over in Dupree, SD is in full swing. Our first race was actually scheduled for two weeks ago, but rain and snow forced us to cancel. So we had to wait until this Thursday to actually make a run. [...]
Zach’s daughter and her horse made a really nice run that put them towards the top of the entries. I believe she was 5th on the weekend. Happy Saturday!
South Dakota’s High School Rodeo season is set up quite differently than what I experienced growing up as a kid in Texas. Our season lasted the entire school year. Here, it wouldn’t work quite that good, since there’s snow on the ground by Oct/Nov and it’s not usually nice enough to want to be outside [...]
I know, I don’t post enough photos on this site, right? Well here’s more from our runs in Stephenville, TX back in the middle of March.
