Been so busy I am squaring away every second of the day to accomplish all I have to do...Today was another one of ride, paint, clean, ride again, sew, oh yeah cook for the fam, and then go feed the horses...
We went to a Paint/Pinto show last weekend...first official breed show for me since last April...we did incredible. I took Cleo and Crush...I showed Crush in walk/trot showmanship and got a 2nd...he has his official Pinto papers. I was going to show him in the walk/trot division but there was a massive car show on the grounds as well, and all the old feks were revving their engines. I rode Crush out into the huge covered pen which he had never been in before and he got very frightened, he was almost shaking...so I slid off and at the VERY moment I did, some GTO asshole blew his muffler up and also a loose stallion raced INTO the covered pen, dragging a longe line and beat it straight up to us...Poor Crush; his eyes were almost rolling in his head! I grabbed the stallion's longe line and smacked it away from my poor terrified gelding while the owner panted up with lame excuses...Anyhow I rode him around some more during the three days we were there but only after I was sure the morons had turned off their engines...He did not like being left in his stall and fussed quite a bit...more open shows are on the order for him...two next month...maybe I can find one in this month but next week I have to fly out to Minneapolis to judge an art show. Get to ride a fancy western pleasure Arabian!!!
As for me and Cleo, we were high point amateurs!! I won showmanship, numerous trail classes, and really truly saw a major improvement in our riding...
Our next show is in December as we are, for the first time in 6 years, going to skip the Perry Georgia Thanksgiving Day 4 day show. The second Paint world show will be just finishing up and with the sh*tty economy I can just imagine that I will be like the only ammy there besides the usual people I am so sick of competing with. I sat and calculated that the T-day show would cost me $3000 and for what? No competition is for what so I will dredge out a turkey and surprise my husband by staying home for once and cooking dinner! We will do Jax in December and have waaaaay more fun (Randy's Tiki Bar!!) and hopefully I can kick some sorry doped up asses with their dead tails and bring home a belt buckle!