Team Roping - Vernon, Texas - December 15, 2012

Colby George and partner 

Colby George and partner

Colby George and partner

 

For more photographs from the roping check out the slideshow at http://shannondsmithphotography.zenfolio.com/p826447787 

Coming Soon - A Video Do-Over

I would hardly call myself a perfectionist, but the videos I posted a couple of weeks ago, just weren't what I had envisioned. So, new camera in hand, I'll soon be on the hunt for new video footage (this time not of me or my sweetheart).

Don't be shy. Leave a comment here if you have ideas or suggestions about what you would like to see.

Check back here in a couple of weeks for an update. : )

What Kids on the Plains Do for Fun

These kids were amazing, pushing their horses to round three poles, weaving in and out between, as fast as they could, then heading back to finish at the starting line. This is a playday, and it's their idea of fun. With times like 16 seconds, there must have been lots of hard work leading up to this day of fun.

 

 

 

Simply DelecTable Catering and the Simply Delightful Cowgirl

Julie is one of the most delightful cowgirls you'll ever meet. She raises cattle, ropes, and rides, teaches church youth and volunteers for church camp. If you said something ugly to her, she would be more likely to hug your neck and call you honey than say something ugly back.

We went to lunch shortly after I moved back to the plains, and she told me she was starting a catering company, Simply DelecTable. I knew it would be successful, because she's just too nice to serve people food that is anything other than delicious.

Simply DelecTable, about a year in, is off to a great start. Here in our little farm town, we're lucky to have her offering lunch every Tuesday. The Marlboro Man sandwich, one of my favorites, was on the menu today. All that meaty delicious goodness served up with grilled peppers and onions on a savory roll had my mouth watering before I even got there. I almost had to buy two because I wasn't sure I could stave off eating it until I photographed it for this post, but I did . . . just barely.

Marlboro Man Sandwich

from Simply DelecTable

 

And brownies galore on the menu today! Of course, I needed to sample eat one of each kind for this post. A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do. Sigh. (They were delicious!)

 

Heath Almond Brownie

from Simply DelecTable

O-M-G!

Please, may I have another?

 

Oreo Brownie

from Simply DelecTable

Will make you love Oreos like only a kid can.

Twix Brownie

from Simply DelecTable

The candy bar should be name after this brownie

instead of the other way around. It's that good.

She's Got a Lot of Cow in Her

 

Get behind, keep them together, push them, into the pen they go. Back from retirement after two years on break, my sweet little ranch horse has a lot of cow in her. She knows how to follow a herd at just the right distance so they don't freak out and bolt for Montana, Missouri, and Mexico.

 

Our first try, and second, and third, and fourth, and fifth, and sixth, she made pushing and penning cattle easy. (Although I suspect maybe my sweetheart set us up with some pre-trained cattle. That one that walked into the pen all on his own was kind of suspicious.) I'm wondering what we'll try next. Hmmm, maybe separating cattle . . . without letting them bolt for Montana.

Aunt Jean, My Role Model