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Need help. -- Hap, 07:43:04 01/17/06 Tue
Odessa is supposed to be on FSN Friday and I'm not sure if this is even the channel I need, but how the heck do I scroll down past 3:00 PM?
I see where to go to the next day but that takes me to 9:00 AM.
So far I don't see any mention of a rodeo anywhere.Thanks.

http://msn.foxsports.com/tv/schedule?regionCategoryId=269&date=2006-01-20

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Is James the brother of Jeffery? -- Varmit, 13:33:22 01/13/06 Fri
http://www.nationalwestern.com/nwss/home/index.asp?rpg=/nwss/rodeo/2006_results/rodeo_2006_results_perf.asp

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- We in a tropical storm warning. Winds up to 40 mph from the northwest. Somebody in North Dakota forgot to close the barb wire gate. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:59:15 01/14/06 Sat
  - Don't know about James. We've been cold here again after a spell of nice weather. There is lots of sickness here right now including me. On my 3rd week now and about the time I start getting better I lose ground again.Fever comes and goes and I'm anxious for it to stay gone because I'm not bad when it's down.I'm kind of a candy ass house dog these days anyway so guess it doesn't matter much.All these guys around here have to go right on working same as I always did, but danged if I ain't spoiled hanging around the house humped up and whimpering. (NT) -- Hap, 19:27:29 01/16/06 Mon
    - Hope you feel better Hap, this time of year I try and stay away from town as much as possible. More Yanks then you can shake a stick at down here right now. (NT) -- Varmit, 05:58:35 01/17/06 Tue
- Would that be yankee flu they bring with them? I would rather take my chances with the mosquitos bringing in West Nile. (NT) -- Hap, 07:57:29 01/17/06 Tue
  - Isn't this flu bug the worse, I came down with it the day before Christmas. Awoke up Christmas morning with so many aches, I'm certian my husband took a stick to me the night before and beat me with it. Yankee flu huh? Well at least now I know who to blame. I'll have to let the CT Yankee I married know, it's his damn fault I was sick. Hope you feal better soon! (NT) -- rose, 11:03:41 01/17/06 Tue
    - Yeah, its the worst. Coup them up there like rats in those buildings and shopping centers then they all come down after the holidays. Nobody I know around here has had it, but then we staying away from the crowds also. (NT) -- Varmit, 20:12:44 01/17/06 Tue
First Winter Tour Rodeo -- Varmit, 17:10:23 01/16/06 Mon
Lots of new names in there.

Most be all them youngins that are up and coming.

I see the $200,000 barrel horse from down this way won some money, but didn't say how much. Another $198,000 and he might be paid off.

http://www.oaoa.com/sports/sp011506c.htm

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- On the PBS board they are talking about Odessa being on Fox Sport Net Friday night. I've got Fox but it's regional so I'm hoping it's shown on all regions. Rose, you might have to get me straightened out again. I know you'll come up with it. Varmit, if that's the horse I'm thinking of, wasn't he $250,000? (NT) -- Hap, 19:02:04 01/16/06 Mon
  - Hap, maybe it was $250,000. Probably throwed in a owners manuel. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:06:09 01/16/06 Mon
    - Ha! If a barrel horse came with an owner's manual it was forged!! Cannot even imagine paying that kind of money for a house, let alone a horse! (NT) -- Julie, 05:16:16 01/17/06 Tue
      - Amen, Sister!!! (NT) -- Crystal, 07:30:27 01/17/06 Tue
- I would expect to buy100 horses for $250,000. (NT) -- Hap, 07:51:57 01/17/06 Tue
  - Hap, I think the women are trying to pull the wool over our eyes..... I bet both of them would be the first to SELL a horse for $250,000.00, then go buy a big house. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:26:15 01/17/06 Tue
Denver -- Varmit, 06:06:20 01/17/06 Tue
I see at Denver in the bareback riding there is a J.R. Chino from Mescalero, NM. Anybody know how he is related to Riley Chino?

http://www.nationalwestern.com/nwss/home/index.asp?rpg=/nwss/rodeo/2006_results/rodeo_2006_results_perf.asp

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- I've got friends down close to there and I will try to remember and ask them next time I talk to them. I think the Tribal Chairman down there is a Chino so that might be like Smith or Jones, lots of them. (NT) -- Hap, 07:47:29 01/17/06 Tue
SH in Santa Fe protesting -- Julie, 06:02:09 01/13/06 Fri
See inside....

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- rodeo funding opposed -- Julie, 06:04:27 01/13/06 Fri
  - This could get plumb humorous before it's over. Now what does a guy do? Stand his ground and go ahead and trick rural NM voters into thinking he's a good ol' boy to remember at the polls, or is this going to stir up his regular supporters to the point they have a falling out? This is going to require some political weaseling but he's an expert at it and has support from NY state. For one thing, if he's a strong supporter of AR, he's got to be against rodeo. AW's are supporters of rodeo, not AR. His office doesn't even know the difference. Maybe he'd better stick to his contacts and "rescue" more POW's. That seemed to impress a few. I might be wrong about his motive, hope so.We'll see, stay tuned. (NT) -- Hap, 08:00:03 01/13/06 Fri
    - I figured he just went there for 2 reasons. 1). to be able to add another "thug" category to his website. 2). To go to the richest town possible to try and get donated money. And did he not have to come close to either Odessa or Denver rodeos to get to Santa Fe? At least one or the other. (NT) -- Varmit, 10:19:58 01/13/06 Fri
      - I think taking a governor to task will get him more publicity than most rodeos, maybe even the NFR. He goes there and nobody pays much attention to him any more. Not sure what to think with Santa Fe being mostly liberals who will usually be supportive of a democrat gov , so who knows? (NT) -- Hap, 12:29:16 01/13/06 Fri
        
        I agree with you. I've come to the conclusion the S.H. is media whore. He's going to go where he can get the most press. He'll do so partially to promote his cause & increase donations, but I think there is the element of just his name in print. Seeing his name in print & the implication that same how important & to be taken seriously. I think that in itself has element that gets him off, hence a media whore. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't dems. back dems. No matter what, unless of course there is another dem. to replace the candidate with! (NT) -- rose, 12:36:34 01/13/06 Fri
        
        Richardson is the Dem's best chance in '08. I think anyway. They'll stick by him. (NT) -- Crystal, 15:37:09 01/13/06 Fri
        
        Well, if youall are sick and tired of your good Democratic govenor in NM then we'll trade with you. Some here in the Lone Star State think our govenor is an idiot. He ran for his first state wide office as Ag. Comissioner. He had slick ads of him riding a horse and sitting in the cockpit of a jet. I think he actually knew a little something about both. The thing is that he looked so young and good lookin' that all the womenfolk just voted for his good looks. Then Lonesome George got him on the ticket as Lt. Govenor and that's how he asended to the Govenors Mansion. He has accomplished everything he set out to. NOTHING! Now his own State Treasurer is going to run against him as an Independent because she knows she can't get elected as a Republicant. So, youall in NM can take our Govenor and we'll take yours even if he can't ride a horse and drive a jet. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 11:46:16 01/14/06 Sat
- Old SH (S Head) must not have stirred things up all that much as far as I can tell. (NT) -- Hap, 19:32:26 01/16/06 Mon
Do you think? -- Varmit, 14:31:07 01/12/06 Thu
That maybe Steve belongs to a weekly rent a computer center?

That new post by Rodney on the buzz board sounds alot like him.

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- He sounds very uninformed about how things work with any branch of the military, or for that matter any business. Nothing new there though, your common citizen is uninformed about the military works! The army has a certian amount of $'s congress gives them. That money is than divide up in their budget for each department inside of the army. Hence money for advertising (like sponsoring rodeo contestants) can not EVER go to salary of soldiers let alone as aid to help their families! It just can't be done once they budget the money for each department that's where it has to go! Oh and him being steve, may be not sure yet though. I need more posts on that one. But if it is him, he was a little more subtle this time. (NT) -- rose, 14:41:06 01/12/06 Thu
  - I think they are back myself. Just waiting for a not so impressive reply. They just a little on the going with the flow at the moment waiting for a response they can jump on. (NT) -- Varmit, 18:32:06 01/12/06 Thu
Just like a woman.... -- Varmit, 09:44:10 01/12/06 Thu
Crystal is hoggin all the rain up there in the Northwest.

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- RAIN??? What's that?!? I don't think I remember, can you describe it for me? Seriously it is so hot & dry here. Would you believe the temp. today is actually in the 80's. The weatherman said it would be 69 but he's got to be on something because the thermometer outside our back door says 81. What the heck is up with that... & everything is all brown & dried up. It's horrible. (NT) -- rose, 10:27:07 01/12/06 Thu
- Yep, we've had more than our share of rain. It's been close to 60 on a few of the sunny days. Seattle hasn't seen anything but liquid sunshine for almost a month! Our ground here is pretty sandy, but there is water standing everywhere. Especially at the feedlot! (NT) -- Crystal, 11:30:57 01/12/06 Thu
  - We were 30 degrees Sunday morning with a very heavy frost. Our grass can't stand frost so it is all turning brown. Yesterday we were 80. We need the rain in the winter and dry in the summer. But it don't work that way. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:24:08 01/12/06 Thu
Cope/Skoal Under Attack in WA State -- Spring Fling, 14:12:11 01/11/06 Wed
Received an email with the following info:

A person connected with UST (US Tobacco)has in the past asked for help from rodeo people in trying to protect the sampling interests of UST. Looks like there are new bills introduced in the legislature that would damage UST and he may need help from us again. The number of calls and emails sent in the past has been a major factor in keeping UST in the sampling business and in supporting rodeo in the state of Washington.

We have another bill... this one filed in the House by Rep. Dawn Morrell and others.. it's HB 2570 and you can see it by clicking the link:
HB 2570

You will need Adobe to open this link. It might be in Washington State, but your state could be next!!

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- Here is the link: OK, that was really weird!!!! You have to click on the "post a reply here" to see the link. Voy is really screwy today! Sorry that other message vanished! (NT) -- SF, 14:15:28 01/11/06 Wed
Wacky Website!!! Try this link: Third Time's A Charm! (NT) -- SF, 14:17:14 01/11/06 Wed
- When they give out samples don't they have to make sure it is going to someone 18. If they do how the heck would this limit kids from getting their hands on it tobacco. Not that it would anyhow. Just wondering if that was taken into condsideration. (NT) -- rose, 15:53:22 01/11/06 Wed
  - I been in those tents, but to old to be carded. I think they are like the conveniant stores, if you look young you get carded. (NT) -- Varmit, 16:56:58 01/11/06 Wed
    - That's kind of what I thought, that they check those who look to young. So to me it would make more sense to enforce that law than create a new law. But what the heck do I know anyhow, I mean polticians are constantly banning things, instead of enforcing the old laws. Hmm, than they're suprised banning it does solve the problem anymore than ingnoring the old laws did. Go figure. (NT) -- rose, 10:29:41 01/12/06 Thu

Imposter?? -- Hap, 22:11:04 01/03/06 Tue
I went over to the Buzz board and looked around and CattleBarron and his alter egos have been making noise about the queer movie.
The thing is, if that's the guy we came to know on that other board I'll eat my hat.

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Revenge of the Rodent -- Albertagirl, 14:53:48 01/10/06 Tue
I'd have thought with all the troubles with fire in New Mexico that burning leaves would have been a HUGE no-no.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20060108/ca_pr_on_od/oddity_mouse_fire;_ylt=AiLW2vCCA28sh2WL5vOFBKzFM1IB;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--

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I was going to say something on here about it a few days ago, but then I read the man was 81 years old. Now if he had been 21, well I would of had to say something...lol. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:42:19 01/10/06 Tue
- That even made the Leno show last night, but he told it different than the way the old guy told it on the local news. Jay said he was mad at the mouse and took him to the yard and tried to burn him up(something like that, anyway)and the mouse ran back inside the house and burned it down. Jay made it sound as if he carried him out there by the tail squealing and the crowd hissed and booed. Actually, he found the mouses nest and carried it outside and dumped the nest in the fire and the mouse came running out and caught some weeds on fire that spread to the house. Here where I live the fire dept is supposed to be notified before burning weeds or ditch banks or anything but I doubt that most people do it. In some areas they need to be called and on standby. (NT) -- Hap, 06:01:57 01/11/06 Wed
  - I am surprised that the animal rights activists haven't jumped on this one. But maybe they have and I haven't seen it. After all they did arrest that guy in New York for killing a rat, but later dropped the charges. Hap, down here, only agriculture zoned land owners and developers are allowed to burn. But plenty of people not zoned that way burn and get away with it. When I call the state to burn, I have no problems, but the locals call and ask where you are burning, then say will not have to call you again, will put it in the computer. Next time I burn, same phone call. Found out by burning on Sat. or Sunday you get no phone call. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:28:42 01/11/06 Wed

0.8 Seconds -- Hap, 07:43:33 01/09/06 Mon
The new Sports News year end edition came a couple of days ago and there's a picture of Speed and Rich where Speed is dallied and gone left and on a tight rope with the steer's head already being pulled left a little, and the clock in the background has 0.8 seconds on it.
Good thing I don't rope, I can't nod my head in 0.8 seconds.

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Did Anybody? -- Varmit, 14:16:16 01/07/06 Sat
Did anybody see what the post about Blair on the Buzz board was about before it was deleted?

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The gist of the post was the felt Blair was an ass, display poor behavior and treats fans & up and coming competitors badly. (NT) -- rose, 14:32:42 01/07/06 Sat
- Thanks Rose, I figured you might be the one to answer my question. Glad to see you back on the board. (NT) -- Varmit, 12:13:28 01/08/06 Sun

Wishes.... -- Crystal, 12:03:11 12/31/05 Sat
HAPPY 2006!!!

May Peace and Prosperity be your friends!!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE.... still alive in 2006... guess the last person alive on earth wins. (NT) -- Varmit, 16:38:14 01/01/06 Sun
- I thought the one with the most toys when he dies wins. You know what they say? There is only one difference between men and boys and that difference is the price of their toys. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 15:46:37 01/03/06 Tue
  - Silly boys, your both wrong! It's not how may toys you have or who's last. It's the one with the best & most wild stories in the end wins! ;) Hope you all had a great new year & Christmas! Oh and remember don't make any resolutions, they just end up broken anyhow. (NT) -- rose, 14:35:39 01/07/06 Sat

How you can tell an Aussie is a direct disendent from England -- Varmit, 20:32:05 01/02/06 Mon
They make up stupid laws like this one:

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2004/11/17/build/world/25-cowboy-helmets.inc

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I guess that should of been spelt "descendents" or something like that. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:26:28 01/03/06 Tue
- Yeppers. Did the same thing in Georgia. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:40:42 01/03/06 Tue
Varmit's Link: Cowboy Helmets. You know, most of the English that were sent to Australia in the 1700's & 1800's were convicts that were "transported". (NT) -- Crystal, 07:11:49 01/03/06 Tue
- That article came out a year ago and I wrote a column on the topic....trying to imagine the real cowboys I know wearing helmets at the ranch. You cannot imagine the feed back I got back from endurance riders and a plethora of fools who said I was WAY off base thinking it wasn't a good idea for America---there are a lot of fools out there and many of them have USA at the end of their address. (NT) -- Julie, 07:44:42 01/03/06 Tue
  - I would imagine an endurance rider has a catered lunch also. Seems they worry to much about the head and forget the neck is a very delicate part of the body and being top heavy in my opinion is just looking for a wreck to happen. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:57:14 01/03/06 Tue
    - I bought one of those OSHA approved hard hats with a brim on it like the Wetbacks wear here on construction jobs. It is a bit cooler but sits up WAY too high on your head and is a bit heavy. I discovered that I can not ride safely in one of them. I do wear it some when doing some barn fixin' and stuff like that but I dang sure can't ride in it. Actually, a good palm leaf hat will offer a lot of protection. They really take quite a bit of shock, especially if you have just wet them down. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 15:41:24 01/03/06 Tue

Jake -- Hap, 09:20:19 12/30/05 Fri

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/sports/articles/1229barnes1229.html

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Hap's Link: Jake Update (NT) -- Crystal, 10:27:57 12/30/05 Fri

Anybody else remember Vic? -- Varmit, 14:24:38 12/27/05 Tue
Scroll down when you get to the page. Now announcing hunter jumper shows:

http://showjumpingunplugged.tv/pages/3/index.htm

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Yep, I do, not that I ever knew him. I think I've been recycled at least ten times, so far. Trouble is, there never has been a time when there was an abundance of quality material to recycle in my case, just give it a go and see what comes out. (NT) -- Hap, 06:29:45 12/28/05 Wed
Varmit's Link: Show Jumping Unplugged? (NT) -- Crystal, 07:06:38 12/28/05 Wed
And, remember SteveK, the announcer that posted here a few times? Well, he's gettin' big time: Rodeo Profiles (NT) -- Crystal, 11:29:10 12/28/05 Wed
Help me name my Paint filly! I have created a poll here: Name The Filly (NT) -- Crystal, 11:52:00 12/28/05 Wed
- Geezz-- how do we get to see her. The Indians allways told me that when you see the horse that the horse will tell you his (or her) name. (NT) -- ZD Ranch home of Little Satan, PeeWee, Cricket & Kate (aka Hell Bitch), 12:25:28 12/28/05 Wed
- There are lots of votes for a board that has around half a dozen people on it. (NT) -- Hap, 09:25:53 12/29/05 Thu
  - It is a public poll site, so anyone that stumbles across it can vote. I also invited people from my email list to vote. (NT) -- Crystal, 11:28:33 12/29/05 Thu
You can see a photo of her here, with Rylen: Cloud (NT) -- Crystal, 16:10:51 12/28/05 Wed
- That future BB rider seems to be a happy kid. How's his steer riding coming along? (NT) -- Hap, 06:42:28 12/30/05 Fri

Merry Christmas everyone!!! -- Albertagirl, 11:02:55 12/23/05 Fri
Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday, and a healthy Happy New Year!

All the best,
Peggy Sue

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY 2006! (NT) -- Crystal, 11:46:11 12/23/05 Fri
Dang... I can't say Merry Christmas as fancy as Crystal.... but anywho... MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL (NT) -- Varmit, 12:11:32 12/24/05 Sat
- and Merry Christmas to you all!! (NT) -- Julie, 16:03:01 12/24/05 Sat
  - Merry Christmas everybody. Snazzy scrolling, Crystal. (NT) -- Hap, 20:47:26 12/24/05 Sat

S. H. is back on Rodeo Buzz... -- Crystal, 07:34:19 12/23/05 Fri
And I don't mean Hatchell! LOL

Our favorite Big Mean Fish guy is posting about what a great movie BAREBACK MTN is. (Yes, I did that on purpose)

Trying to stir things up again.

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S. Head. (and I don't mean Steve) (NT) -- Hap, 08:43:09 12/23/05 Fri

The board went haywire. -- Varmit, 18:19:05 12/18/05 Sun
I looked at this board. Refreshed it and the only thing that came up was:

* -- *, 08:28:16 12/18/05 Sun
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Look at who the FBI has been watching -- Varmit, 12:29:08 12/20/05 Tue
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/politics/20fbi.html

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Way Too Quiet!!! -- Crystal, 14:48:16 12/12/05 Mon
Did everyone's favorites win the World?

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Write up about Gene. -- Hap, 09:15:53 12/15/05 Thu
Sounds like things are looking up for Gene outside of our area.He burned bridges in NM but hope the book does well.

http://www.rodeoattitude.com/dir_hd/gail/making_a_hand.htm

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Hap's Link: A Bit About Gene (NT) -- Crystal, 09:34:05 12/16/05 Fri

Truth ot fiction -- Hap, 13:39:38 11/14/05 Mon
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/h/hillary-soldier.htm

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I think everybody in New Mexico is hibernating except for you Hap. The soldier could of used a different finger. That would of gotten the point across. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:52:56 11/15/05 Tue
- Not hibernating, just frozen :) Got down to the teens last night even here in the banana belt!!! :) Fortunately I JUST got the woodpile refurbished!!! (NT) -- Julie, 19:22:12 11/16/05 Wed
Hap's Link: Truth or Fiction? (NT) -- Crystal, 14:04:29 11/15/05 Tue
- That came from an old buddy that served two tours in Viet Nam with the Marines and would do it again elsewhere in a heartbeat except for the fact he's disabled.. I think we can see where the frickin peaceniks could land us in the same shape France is in without leaders with some cajonies. Right or wrong, we got those cajonies right now. (NT) -- Hap, 16:08:58 11/15/05 Tue
  - The same guy sent this one plus another. Both are inside. President Bush May Send Marines For French Assistance.>>>>>> -- Hap, 16:22:15 11/15/05 Tue
    - Hey Hap, have you ever read the letter from a marine to the marine's parents? The marine is in France & describes how they got into a fight with a Frenchman after he criticised the American Military for going into Afghanistan. My uncle ( a retired Seal) sent it to my husband. It was pretty funny. If haven't read that one I'll have to see if one of them still has it & post it for ya. (NT) -- rose, 17:10:27 11/20/05 Sun
      - No, I havn't seen it and would like to. Thanks, Rose. (NT) -- Hap, 07:37:53 12/14/05 Wed
        
        Letter inside Hap. Note to everyone this is a joke letter, it's not ment to get your undies in a wad. Just thought I would put the joke disclaimer on it before somebody points it's not real. Well duh! But it is funny! -- rose, 21:54:14 12/14/05 Wed
Thanks Rose. I saw one kinda like that except it was a letter explaining how simple it was to make it through basic training and they even had guns that fired ready made bullets and how easy it was to hit the bulls eye every time compaired to shooting "Varmits" and it was signed by a hillbilly girl. I must have deleted it. (NT) -- Hap, 06:10:48 12/15/05 Thu
- This one Hap, Letter to Home from Boot Camp >>>>>>> -- rose, 12:47:57 12/15/05 Thu

How bout that team roping! -- Julie, 15:50:57 12/07/05 Wed
3.9 seconds!!!

And Barnes lost a thumb----

Who'd thunk the team roping would be the best event to watch :)

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I was NEARLY in NM this week. -- ZD Ranch, 18:05:46 12/07/05 Wed
I had to spend a few days in Ft. Stockton this week on business. I always thought it was just desert and nothing more. I have an old college buddy there and had lunch with him. He said they have had 35" of rain in the last 18 months and the country has more grass now that he has ever seen in his 64 years. It really has it's Sunday clothes on.

That air is just incredible. That is until you get to the oil patch and begin to smell that H2S. It's kinda like cow manure though. If you are making money off of it sometimes it begins to smell pretty good.

It's good to be back in the Heart of Texas though even though I was welcomed home with an ice storm.

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NFR 2005 -- Julie, 04:37:06 12/05/05 Mon
For the first time since they started televising the NFR---I didn't stay up until 11 p.m. to watch it the first round-(must be maturity)-and almost missed the 2nd round but did catch all of the 3rd round. I used to be a fanatic for getting all of it on tape--even for the ten years I was IN Las Vegas for 3-4 nights of it, I'd program the VCR to tape it while I was there.

The ESPN assortment of announcers are interesting this year--while Donnie Gay is still Donnie Gay, the Joe Beaver add is a good one for detail in the roping events. I still liked the humor and detail given by Ty Murray. Kinda miss ole Ty.

So many new faces and names--My credentials for being in the know are limited to whose kid they are :) i.e. I know the parents of four of the kids in the team roping :) One is a nephew. (Cody Hintz)I went to college with Jim Nichols-he dated my roommate--he's Shali Lord's dad.

And so another generation of rodeo kids make the big time---and it is still just as thrilling.

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Back when they had the ribbon roping, Jim mugged a few calves for me at those college rodeos. (NT) -- Varmit, 17:19:25 12/05/05 Mon
- Jim has to be a proud poppa today after Shali has won three of the four go rounds! She must have a small pattern indoor running scamp! (NT) -- Julie, 04:32:01 12/06/05 Tue
  - I like seeing those small quarter horses, like hers and Trevors rope horse, out work those half thoroughbred horses. But maybe I am partial because my current horse is 14.0, one before that was 14.1, and my college horse was 14.0...hmmm. (NT) -- Varmit, 05:50:02 12/06/05 Tue
    - I now have 2 14hh guys. Little Satan and PeeWee. Both of them are 14hh (if they are wearing new shoes, standing on a 1" X 4" and a cigarette paper. Both of them are out of my famous SaleBarn by Gooseneck breeding program. I have 8 pastures and 3 traps on my place and over half of them have gates or gaps that you can't open mounted so the little guys come in handy. My son has a 17hh mare that is gray the same as PeeWee. They hang out together and ti looks like a mare and colt (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 17:59:34 12/07/05 Wed

New fans, new money -- Julie, 05:06:06 12/05/05 Mon
This article is in a Baltimore paper...had some interesting data in I thought...link for entire article is at the bottom ....

Rodeos lasso a new type of fan
Sport getting an overhaul thanks to convergence of factors
By Kelly Crow
The Wall Street Journal
Originally published December 5, 2005
When Trevor Brazile left his home in Decatur, Texas, to become a professional cowboy, he was prepared for all the traditional rigors of the rodeo circuit: ornery steers, tumbleweed towns, tiny prize purses and the occasional busted tooth. His notion of "fame" was being asked to sign autographs at the smokeless tobacco booth.

But in the last few years, the 29-year-old has found himself square in the middle of a trend he never imagined. When he's not promoting his new line of cowboy hats or traveling the country in a complimentary 35-foot custom trailer with leather window treatments, he's eating steamed artichokes with sponsors and mingling with celebrity fans. At this weekend's Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, the sport's equivalent of the Super Bowl, he's been put up at the Mirage. "It all feels so foreign to me," says Brazile, a three-time national champion. "I'm a small-town guy."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-rodeos1205,1,1562414.storyRodeos lasso a new type of fan?coll=bal-business-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

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Bet the ARA's are upset -- Varmit, 15:33:11 12/04/05 Sun
Turned on the computer for the first time today, its Sunday evening.

On the front page of AOL they have News, entertainment, shopping, sports flash one after another for members to click on.

When the entertainment came up, it was about the NFR. And they had a picture of a Calf Roper.

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ZZZZZZZ??? -- Julie, 12:18:48 11/27/05 Sun
You guys slept off that turkey dinner yet?

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This is a 16 lb. cowboy cooked turkey. Twelve of us ate the whole danged thing in one sittin'. I smoked it for 16 hours and it was fantastic. -- ZD Ranch, 13:46:27 11/28/05 Mon
- What is "cowboy cooked?".... It looks WONDERFUL? (NT) -- Julie, 18:28:30 11/30/05 Wed
  - Just put it on the smoker and go ride your horse, with the added attraction of having a chance to stir up Hap. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 17:46:45 12/01/05 Thu

political correctness run amok -- Varmit, 10:17:31 12/01/05 Thu
Article about doing away with the word Christmas when referring to Christmas Trees.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-01-trimming-debate_x.htm

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Bull Whips -- ZD Ranch, 14:56:19 11/22/05 Tue
I have used a bull whip ever since I was big enough to pick one up. An old pal of mine who is a retired preacher, school teacher and farrier has made my bull whips and buggy whips for over 30 years. He makes them with rather interesting handles. He has put every kind of handle imaganible on them. The most distinctive of course are the ones with a shed elk horn or a bull penis.

These whips are made out of braded parachute cord and he treats them with varnish and they feel and handle just as a rawhide one would. You can't wear them out. They can be stolen though and if you have one of these you sure better keep an eye on it if you don't know the company you are in real well or they will show up missing.

At any rate my pal is making me 2 new whips and that'll make me have 4 since one that I recently sold just came back to me.

Now the proposition is that if anyone in NM wants a bull whip with a bull penis handle I will let you have one at cost PROVIDED that you'll get me a shed elk horn or really big mule deer horn that I can have made in to a handle for the next one I make. Time is of the essence here as this ol' boy is gettin' long in the tooth and he could be out of the business any minute.

A message for Juli--- Is the plural of penis, peni? I am not being silly, I really would like to know.

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HMMM ZD, I'm not sure on that plural thing. I guess I'd just have to use the shortened form of Richard and add an s :) But the dictionary says "pe�nis�es " (NT) -- Julie, 15:27:10 11/22/05 Tue
- Your answer really hit home with me. My long time clerk is retireing today. I am going to her retirement party. She put up with my stupid questions and bad spelling while USDA was still using typewriters. I've been retired 10 years and am glad that she will have a chance to enjoy the good life. It really would have NEVER occured to me to look in the dictionary. Congratulations Margaret. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 05:46:40 11/23/05 Wed
  - It's okay ZD.....looking in a dictionary, reading instructions or asking for directions....the male of the species is simply not hard wired to do those things easily. Woman was created to bear children and do all the aforementioned tasks :) and not think a think about it. (NT) -- Julie, 07:25:14 11/26/05 Sat

Some more work for you Internet guru's -- Varmit, 15:10:17 11/20/05 Sun
Can anybody find out what these machines cost?

http://smartsteer.com/

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try this url it has the prices of all the products listed http://smartsteer.com/pricing.htm (NT) -- rose, 16:56:50 11/20/05 Sun
- Thanks rose.... what link did you find that under?.... they don't have a "pricing" link at the top of the page.... Anyway, that would be an expensive Christmas Gift. (NT) -- Varmit, 19:21:22 11/20/05 Sun
  - I clicked on "sitemap" up at the top. That took me to a list of links. When I scrolled down there was a link for pricing. They do kind of keep it hidden. Hmm may be they keep the prices well hidden because they agree it is an expensive christmas gift! Kind of think of it, that explains why they have a nice little link to apply for financing. (NT) -- rose, 20:57:22 11/20/05 Sun
    - Aren't roping steers running over $500 a head? At least this guy will still be good next year, won't have to be fed all winter, and a little fuel should go a long way. (I sound like a justifying team roper) I'm sure the rational will run along those lines! I sent the link to a "retired" rancher/cowboy who is gettin' pretty serious about roping again. According to his wife he's already spent more on horses and steers than any one the first three houses they owned cost! (NT) -- Julie, 05:05:59 11/21/05 Mon
      - Still has to be fed with that gasoline. And the luck I have with mechanical things... well.. might be more costly for me. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:28:28 11/21/05 Mon

Remember the Gay Cowboy movie we discussed some time back? -- Julie, 05:05:42 11/09/05 Wed
Well it seems it is now in the running for an Oscar.
Read all about it here--the movie is called BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
'GAY COWBOY' MOVIE BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNER

http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2005/11/07/20051107_062200_flash3bm.htm

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First off I thought it was a gay sheep herder movie... Secondly it says,.... "Arriving with nudity and explicit gay sex scenes between two cowboys"..... now who would go see a movie like that unless they were Gay? (NT) -- Varmit, 05:44:22 11/09/05 Wed
- First off, most of us have seen livestock go at it all our lives and never give it a second thought. City guys make a big deal out of a mare being mounted and all the others but it doesn't bother us. I even remember town kids laughing when they saw a couple of dogs doing it and you could pretty much tell city from country when that happened. Once, it was just outside the classroom on the lawn, and some of wondered what was the big deal while others got tickled. Most of us could care less about seeing a normal couple go at it because it simply ain't that much of a spectator sport. To watch two queers do their thing is something I think only a sick-o would enjoy, but then I suppose us bumpkins ain't "with it" so what do we know? (NT) -- Hap, 08:52:45 11/10/05 Thu
  - AHH, Hap did you have to go & burst my bubble. I thought I was "with it" until I read your post. I'll tell you what I don't understand about this. If they had an explicit sex scene of a straight couple critics would be calling that porn not a love story. Straight, Gay or whatever it's still porn if they're getting explicit instead of hinting at it! What happen to movies where they left something to the imagination instead of actually showing you? I agree def. don't need spectators. In fact I'll go one better, the only person's bedroom I care about is MINE! So not only do I not want to see it on T.V. I don't want to here what about it in person, or for that matter read about someone else's sex life. I guess that does make me out of it, and old before my time. oh well. (NT) -- rose, 18:11:22 11/10/05 Thu
    - Maybe I'm a sicko. I agree with the 'what's the big deal' posts above EXCEPT that I'll have to admit that it would sure be interesting to see what those cheerleeder gals were doing in that widely reported incident recently. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 06:12:42 11/11/05 Fri
      - ZD, wondering about things like that is in the normal range, I would say. Rose, is there anybody left in Hollywood that ain't a screwball? From what I see, not being "with it" is a good thing when talking about those guys. (NT) -- Hap, 07:39:52 11/11/05 Fri
        
        I take it we are not going to be able to buy a "Rose Gone Wild" video. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:27:16 11/11/05 Fri
        
        Oh I got bad news for you buddy... If you bought a video called "Rose gone Wild" I'm afraid you have been scammed :) Seriously though, I never could understand why a girl would want guy around that she had to behave trashy to get. On the whole movie thing I just don't think nudity or sex is needed in about 90% of the movies to tell the story or develop the characters. It is simply done to shock or titillate but it doesn't develop the plot any, & that's what makes it porn, IMO. (NT) -- rose, 17:05:28 11/20/05 Sun

Don't turn loose -- Julie, 05:16:22 11/17/05 Thu
McBrides record take at PBR

http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=2&display=rednews/2005/11/15/build/sports/65-mcbride.inc

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NFR stays in Vegas -- Hap, 12:29:03 11/12/05 Sat
Final round on Sat night sounds good.

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Nov-12-Sat-2005/news/4268986.html

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The time extension certainly allows for some long range planning!! :) I'm glad it stayed. It would be a hard act to follow after having it there so long--- (NT) -- Julie, 05:25:10 11/13/05 Sun
- Looks like Trevors reign in the All Around may be in jeopardy this year..... Ryan Jarret just won $22,000 in the steer wrestling qualifying him in 2 events at the NFR. The only person to qualify in 2 events. (NT) -- Varmit, 15:37:22 11/13/05 Sun

Anybody bought any winter rye grass seed this year? -- Varmit, 18:00:56 11/11/05 Fri
I priced some and it went up $15.00 per hundred pounds from a year ago. Was paying 31 cents a pound last year, now they want 46 cents a pound. Think I will just forget it this year.

10-10-10 fertilizer went from $200 a ton to $250.00 a ton in the 50 pound bags. I put it out with a spreader that holds 500 pounds.

They must think everybody is getting rich. They hiking up the electric 20% starting the first of the year.

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I haven't planted any ryegrass in 20 years. Every bermuda pasture I have is overseeded in it and I never have failed to get a stand. I won the Hubbard City Hay show with ryegrass this year and my hay tested 14% protein. So far this year we have not had any Fall rain and we don't have anything green now. If it weren't for the ryegrass hay I would not have anything for the steers to eat this winter. We need rain as bad as one can be needed. Ryegrass is a wonderful grass crop for me. It fits with the bermuda well and growing 2 crops on the same land each year doesn't double production but it does increase it but you sure do have to buy more fertilizer. You have to change your weed control chemicals too as the Grazon will damage the ryegrass some. On the minus side wheat farmers hate ryegrass as they can't keep it out of their wheat. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 05:57:28 11/12/05 Sat

Beyond the Bull -- Julie, 05:41:23 11/08/05 Tue
I will post inside>>>>
an article about a new 10 part series The Learning Channel is releasing taking viewers inside the lives of professional bull riders.

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story here -- Julie, 05:43:36 11/08/05 Tue
- Like I am going to remember when that is on.... can't remember to watch something that is on this week. (NT) -- Varmit, 07:46:03 11/08/05 Tue
  - Varmit, that problem is common (the memory thing) In my house it is somewhat remedied with a sticky note that reads "Note to self......." (NT) -- Julie, 08:27:55 11/08/05 Tue
    - The only way sticky notes work for me is put it on the TV screen. Put it anywhere else is useless. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:14:34 11/08/05 Tue
- It will be interesting if they give the bulls much study. My Leroy Brown got rode in his 4th out. He ran off with the cowboy and the kid scored a 68. Dang, I sure wish it had gone the other way. Ol' Leroy Brown didn't turn back at all. He just ran to his 'spot' and passed it and then 'cut for Tulsa'. I wasn't there but Sandy said he was even faster than normal but just didn't turn or kick at all. Any thoughts on how to cure this? Not that it matters though because I've got enough sense to not try to tell Sandy anything about making a bull buck. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 12:03:36 11/08/05 Tue
  - He sounds like he's just smart. Maybe another arena, change of scenery would help. (NT) -- Julie, 15:24:16 11/08/05 Tue
  - Or he needs a bullfighter in his face as the gate cracks to get him turned. They'll probably do that next time, and he'll have a totally different trip. (NT) -- Albertagirl, 09:15:06 11/09/05 Wed
    - Or.... he freight trained the bullfighter... then went to the other end of the arena looking for another one. (NT) -- Varmit, 13:32:09 11/09/05 Wed
      - Sandy is just sick over it. He says Leroy Brown is so much better looking as a bucking bull than anything else he has that he can hardly talk about it. I told him to not give up on him too soon because I don't have much invested in the bull. I did suggest to Sandy's wife that she sing the Oscar Meyer jingle to Leroy Brown and let him know that if he doesn't buck he might become a part of the song. Maybe Julie is a bull whisperer. We'll see. It will take a 'bull fighter' and not a 'clown' to get Leroy Brown to turn. He is faster than any bull I have ever seen. When he ran over me on Little Satan it happened so fast you would have missed it if you had blinked. (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 13:42:11 11/09/05 Wed

Is History Repeating Itself? -- Spring Fling, 08:01:53 11/03/05 Thu
Apparently Ellerman has learned nothing from the events of last fall. In fact, it seems he has taken a page from Hatchell's playbook! Troy has been in negotiations with Grit Rock Enterprises for them to purchase certain assets of the PRCA (namely Tours, Extreme Bulls, etc). Why was the PRCA Board not consulted? Does this sound familiar?

Everyone has been looking forward to HorseTV. Now that deal is falling through. They were supposed to broadcast Circuit Finals and DNCFR. It is a no go.

Troy hasn't talked to the Board about this stuff. Everything is a big secret again! :-(

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Is History Repeating Itself?? Sadly, that tends to happen. The more things change the more they stay the same. (NT) -- Julie, 13:11:45 11/03/05 Thu
Even more info inside.......>>>> -- Spring Fling, 13:18:30 11/04/05 Fri
- Not only does this sound shady, it sounds completely illegal! I'm afraid the PRCA isn't out of the woods yet!!! (NT) -- Julie, 06:17:16 11/06/05 Sun
The email I copied and pasted in the above post referenced a board member.....>>> -- Spring Fling, 07:26:35 11/07/05 Mon

Any Takers? -- Spring Fling, 14:37:20 11/01/05 Tue
You can have your very own Ingrid Newkirk for a day. Her "services" are being auctioned off on EBay. Here is the link: Buy Ingrid!

What would you have her do? ;-)

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Thank you -- Gene, 11:52:29 11/02/05 Wed
I�m signing off for a while. Thanks for teaching me so much about your way-of-life. In return, I believe I have created a book that will generate respect and understanding for cowboys for a long time to come. I've learned a lot from you all, and I couldn�t have done it without you. Thanks again for your valued help and friendship.

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Sorry to see you go, Gene. (NT) -- Crystal, 07:21:19 11/03/05 Thu

They just don't make metal like they use to. -- Varmit, 19:08:24 10/30/05 Sun
These are metal power poles that will pop up on the upper right side of the story.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051028/BUSINESS/510280391/1270/NEWS0101

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Varmit's Link: Power Towers (NT) -- Crystal, 11:00:12 10/31/05 Mon
- Varmit, did your mailbox make it through the season without getting ran over again? NM sent some power company guys down there to help and we're heck on mailboxes out here. (NT) -- Hap, 20:16:26 10/31/05 Mon
  - Hap.. they didn't get my mailbox this year. Maybe it has something to do with the fact I left the old one up and never did go back and buy another new one. Those new shiny ones must be a better target. The crews working around here were from Iowa. I had to unlock a pasture for them ( even though their is a FP&L lock on it) for them to fix a down line that crossed the pasture. (NT) -- Varmit, 05:38:32 11/01/05 Tue

Here is a story on Dee Pickett's son Cody. -- Varmit, 11:46:44 10/31/05 Mon
Way the story sounds he played quarterback in his first NFL game yesterday.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/31/SPGLEFGN1D1.DTL

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Varmit's Link: Cody Pickett. He played at U of Washington in Seattle, so I heard quite a bit about him while he was in college. (NT) -- Crystal, 13:29:32 10/31/05 Mon

Gene...Evening with the Arts Cowboy Style -- Julie, 17:27:15 10/25/05 Tue
I see your name on the list to rub elbows with the authors etc at Cattlegrowers in Albq. Dec. 2. Isn't that about when you are scheduled for Hubbard too?

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Happy New Year -- Julie, 06:22:45 10/28/05 Fri
The cowboy new year

No, the calendar hasn�t flipped over to the actual New Year as in �next year.� For most people it just the fall season. But for the cowboy, fall is the beginning of a new year just like Monday is the beginning of a new week.

By the time November rolls around, most ranches in this part of the country have weaned their calves and/or shipped them off. They have had their one time pay day for a year�s hard work. One more year they have watched a cow buyer drive off down the dusty road in his big fancy car with his diamond pinky ring flashing in the sunlight. One more time they have let go a sigh of relief as the last cattle truck rolled over the cattle guard headed for feedlots and wheat pastures.

Yearling cattle operators have shipped the summer cattle and are looking to get the fall stockers received and tucked away in winter pastures.

Fall is when you get out all the jackets, down vests, wild rags and leggings. You make every effort to find the winter gloves, all of them, including the right and left one of each pair. It has been proven that while empty cardboard boxes multiply in captivity, winter gloves in matching pairs are an endangered species.

My first concession to the season is giving up my sandals for full-cover footwear. It usually doesn�t happen before I�ve been seen in public several times wearing a turtleneck sweater and the aforementioned sandals.

The horses start getting long hair and spend more time at the feed bunk. They have little interest in working, socializing or doing anything but soaking up the afternoon sun.

Fall is when you start breaking the two year old colts and hope they turn out gentle enough no one gets hurt. It is hard to maintain any cowboy athletic prowess with a bucking colt when you are dressed with enough layers to resemble the Michelin man.

Food changes from sandwiches and salads to pots of chili and a complete assortment of crock pot ready-to-eat cuisine options. Pumpkins are everywhere. Pumpkin cake and pumpkin bread are a favorite whether it is for the taste of cinnamon and clove or simply a good reason for the cream cheese frosting. While I happen to think pumpkin comes in a can, the real thing does look pretty sitting around next to Indian corn or bundled corn stocks.

It is not yet calving season and there is not yet any ice to break on the water tanks. The feed pickups stand by ready for work. But the season is too short to start any major fencing, pipelining or corral building. It is not that winter will be idle but winter has a specific set of jobs which mostly leave no time for special projects.

Fall is the time to review what has been accomplished during the year�-you can�t get it back but you can always hope to improve on it. Ranching is like that. You always look forward to getting this year over with so you can start on the next one. Ranchers just get to start a little earlier with their New Year resolutions.

Happy New Year

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�2005 Julie Carter for above story :) (NT) -- Julie, 06:52:22 10/28/05 Fri
- Julie, I got a call from an old timer from that area a few days ago and he mentioned something in the Ruidoso paper so I asked him if he read your column. He said he enjoyed it and could tell you were a ranchers wife. He lives up here and has for years. I know 6 or 8 guys up here from your country and they mention others up here that I never met. One thing about those guys, they could dress like Liberache and they still couldn't disguise the "country" in them. They have been up here longer than you've been down there so don't know you personally. You know how it is, all "hicks from the sticks"recognize one when the see one and that's a good thing. (NT) -- Hap, 06:51:19 10/30/05 Sun

Cleanup at Varmits place -- Varmit, 15:50:09 10/24/05 Mon

Well not long after I posted my 11 am report my laptop battery went dead.

Wilma made a jog to the north northeast. Put us in the outer eye wall. Gave us 80 mph sustained winds for about an hour and half.

Lots of limbs down. A few trees. Oak leaves piled up around the house like a snow drift.

Brand new pens I built down the road after last years storm, had a big limb tear down a section. A few gates tore up.

Houses all okay. Glad I boarded up. Was much stronger then predicted for our area.

Lights came back on about an hour and half after I got the generators out and hooked up.

Sky is clear blue.. about 62 degrees out and suppose to be about 45 degrees tonight. After just terrible hot and humid weather, hurricane season and summer ended all in the same day.

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You go outside at night all you can hear in the distance is generators running..... 42,000 without power in our county and ... 6 million in the state. (NT) -- Varmit, 09:51:37 10/25/05 Tue
- Varmit, it must sound like a modern day junior rodeo around there with all those generators running at the same time. I like these modern things. You can step in to any one of dozens of living quarters horse trailers and cool off. (NT) -- Hap, 06:38:01 10/30/05 Sun

No more OLN on the Dish Network -- Hap, 18:43:55 10/21/05 Fri
Please call the guy listed at the bottom and tell him to bring it back. I just went with then and still have 9 months of a one year contract.

Associated Press

DENVER (AP) -- The owner of The Dish Network said Thursday it pulled the Outdoor Life Network from its system after the cable channel failed to provide NHL games to the nation's second-largest satellite television provider.

EchoStar Communications Corp. spokesman Marc Lumpkin said the network did not show games on Oct. 10-11 and on Monday and Tuesday as advertised. "We were not given advance notice that they would not show the programming," he said.

Although best known for broadcasting the Tour de France and cyclist Lance Armstrong, OLN this fall took over broadcasting National Hockey League games on cable from ESPN, a unit of The Walt Disney Co.

"We are surprised and disappointed that Dish has unilaterally chosen to stop providing OLN to its customers, and denied fans the opportunity to watch sports coverage on OLN," spokeswoman Amy Phillips said.

The contract dispute between EchoStar and OLN revolves around OLN's placement in a higher-priced channel package by Dish Network, which is distributed to fewer viewers.

OLN, owned by cable giant Comcast Corp., set a requirement that the channel must be seen by 40 percent of a cable or satellite TV system's viewers in order for it to broadcast the NHL games. It said the Dish Network has failed to meet that requirement.

Lumpkin declined to comment on the specifics of the dispute.

EchoStar would have to move the channel from its top package to a lower-cost package that may have fewer channels but more viewers. That would raise the fees Dish Network viewers pay.

"We work hard to provide choice for customers and to keep prices low," Eric Sahl, an EchoStar senior vice president, said in a statement. "Most of our customers have made the decision they do not want to pay the additional cost of watching the channel."

EchoStar hasn't been afraid to take on networks before. In March 2004, it pulled Viacom Inc. programming - including MTV, the Comedy Channel and Nickelodeon - from the Dish Network for two days until an agreement was struck on a long-term contract.

Based in suburban Englewood, EchoStar's Dish Network has about 11.4 million customers.

Call this guy if you're on the Dish and maybe it will do some good.
Mark
(720)514-5351

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Wilma is here -- Varmit, 04:27:30 10/24/05 Mon
7:30 am its just beginning. Are we lucky or what. 3 direct hits from hurricanes in less then 14 month.

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Stay SAFE Varmit! And check in as you can!!! (NT) -- Jule, 05:14:56 10/24/05 Mon
- Little after 9 am.... lost electric..... wind getting stronger.... looks like it about to go out in the Atlantic very soon... so conditions should improve in about another couple of hours. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:21:32 10/24/05 Mon
  - 11 am.... wind is rough.... radar shows clear areas about 40 miles west of us... hope it gets here soon (NT) -- Varmit, 08:12:15 10/24/05 Mon
Dang, Varmit, those hurricanes are soon going to have an area cleared away from your fences so when one comes in they won't be blowing a tree down on your fence. Lucky you, HaHa. Good luck, thanks for letting us know. (NT) -- Hap, 08:36:41 10/24/05 Mon

Joaquin Jackson: Texas Ranger -- Gene, 10:11:44 10/23/05 Sun
Yesterday, I spent about an hour with legendary Texas Ranger, Joaquin Jackson. He was signing his book �One Ranger: a Memoir� at the store where I�m signing next week, so I went to check things out.

He�s the ultimate Western lawman icon. He�s at least nine feet tall, and looks like he was carved from a huge block of wood. He speaks in that understated, veteran cop manner�direct and straight to the point with no nonsense, and very quiet, so you have to lean in and pay attention and put yourself at his mercy. Every real Texan knows his name.

We developed a quick camaraderie as soon as he saw my book and noticed that Elmer Kelton had written its introduction. I sat nearby and watched him interact individually with everyone. He shook hands and spoke with each book buyer individually, like a folksy small town sheriff.

The people waiting in line were amazing! They looked ordinary enough at first glance, but introduced themselves to Joaquin as special agents, CIA, FBI, all sorts of county deputies from NM and Texas, and then military guys that included a current Army Ranger, a Navy Seal home on leave, fighter pilots from Kirtland AFB, a retired Green Beret, and WWII veterans with their wives. A terrorist bomb could have wiped-out all the warriors of northern New Mexico with one bang! I guess Joaquin is a big-time NRA figure and always draws a loyal crowd from that scene. It certainly wasn�t the typical, PC Fanta Se book signing.

His fans kept him really busy, but I�d accompany him on his cigarette breaks (he normally smokes cigars, but settles for Dorals, diet cigarettes, for his short breaks). Gawd, what an amazing presence! Passersby on the street couldn�t have mistaken him as anyone but the ultimate Texas Ranger.

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I would have to completely disagree -- Varmit, 19:31:35 10/17/05 Mon
That she said a horse would never do a flip if he had a heart attack.

Having been on the back of one that turned straight over head first when he had a heart attack, got up staggered about 60 feet to the side then came running back toward me as I layed on the ground half dazed and turned another flip about 20 feet from me and was dead when he hit the ground.
Blood was pouring out his nose.
This all happened after scoring 4 calves in a row and was walking him out of the roping box.

http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051016/NEWS/510160331/1001

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Something I just realized. -- Varmit, 19:09:51 10/13/05 Thu
Just read a deal where Tee Woolman will be 51 years old in December. So that means he won the All Around at Cheyenne this year at the age of 50. That is quite an accomplishment, but nowhere did I remember reading about his age when he won it. And if I ain't mistaken, he won the All Around there last year. Talk about puttin a whoppin on the young guns.

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Varmit, you've had too many "white" hurricanes down there and it needs to stop right now. HaHa.. -- Hap, 21:13:38 10/20/05 Thu
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33896

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I think the statements in the article sums in up best.... better leave it at that... and not post my white man comments. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:59:56 10/21/05 Fri
- Wonder what they would think if they named some of them.... Gomer, Bubba, Goober, Homer. (NT) -- Varmit, 11:42:16 10/21/05 Fri
Then there's Tonto. Poncho, Abdul and many more. My thought were "why make such a big deal over small stuff. When she comes up with an actual problem who will listen to her?" (NT) -- Hap, 17:53:43 10/21/05 Fri
- You know when el nino and la nina went through here on the left coast all the mexicans said that racist for them to call it that. Can win no matter how try it. They wanted to know why it didn't have a white sounding name! HUH? I mean it's a storm who cares what ya call it... Personaly I think they should all be called "this is gonna suck" After all it is gonna be just that! (NT) -- rose, 22:01:14 10/21/05 Fri

The land of ma�ana -- Julie, 08:19:01 10/20/05 Thu
The many promises of the land of ma�ana
By Julie Carter

I truly love New Mexico and all its idiosyncrasies that make it unique.

There are things about New Mexico you can only learn with time spent here and then it becomes just simply how it is. Most of these �things� are completely accepted and no one questions them. Those that question them usually don�t stay long anyway.

I have a list that some unknown person authored about living in New Mexico. I thought it to be humorous, correct and worth sharing.

All festivals across the state are named after a fruit or vegetable.
Onced and twiced are words.
Coldbeer is one word.
�Jeet?� is an actual phrase meaning, �Did you eat?�
You find 100 degrees a �tad� warm.
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chilly weather.
You can switch from �heat� to �A/C� in the same day.
The wind blows at 90 mph from Oct. 2 until June 25; then it stops totally until Oct. 2.
When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it is time to see a doctor.
You come to know which leaves make good toilet paper.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You carry jumper cables for your own car.
You think everyone from north of Farmington has an accent.
You measure distance with time not miles. �It�s about 45 minutes away.�
Sweetened ice tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it at age two.
You have only four spices in your kitchen: Salt, pepper, Catsup and Tabasco.
Sexy underwear is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.
All four seasons are: almost summer, summer, still summer and Christmas.
Fix-in-to is one word.
Green grass does burn.
Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
You work until you are done or it is too dark to see.
The sounds of coyotes howling at night only sound good for the first few weeks.
There is a valid reason why some people put razor wire around their house.
Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.
If it grows, it will stick you. If it crawls, it will bite you.
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in New Mexico.
There are 10,000 types of spiders and all 10,000 live in New Mexico plus a few undiscovered varieties.
The local paper covers national and international news on one page but requires six pages to cover Friday night high school football.
The first day of deer or elk season is a national holiday.

In l985 when I first moved from the Denver area to this land of enchantment, my initial impression of New Mexico was that the clock had been turned back at least two decades.

While the charm of that was certainly as promised, very enchanting, it could also be very frustrating. Gearing life down from a metropolitan fast paced do-it-now we want-it-yesterday world was not easy to do.

But New Mexico has a solution for that too. It is called �ma�ana,�--a word that is more than just a word. It is an attitude that New Mexico wears like a badge of honor, a banner of royalty and a promise to all that arrive�don�t bother to get in a hurry because we don�t.

�2005 Julie Carter

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I resemble that. (NT) -- Hap, 21:22:36 10/20/05 Thu

Muncy's All Around Touch -- Julie, 11:31:31 10/20/05 Thu
Taos Muncy still has that All Around touch
By Julie Carter

Rodeo fans watched weekly during last years high school rodeo season as Corona cowboy Taos Muncy racked up all around titles one after another�ending his senior year with 14 titles including the one he earned at the New Mexico State High School rodeo finals.

It seems to be just what he does.

Now firmly planted in college at Oklahoma Panhandle State University in Goodwell, Oklahoma, Muncy is an ag business major and a key player on a notoriously tough college rodeo team.

Their first season�s competition was Oct. 7-9 in Pratt, Kansas. Muncy split second and third in the first round of the bareback riding, split fifth and sixth in the second round and split fourth and fifth in the average. He also made the short round in the team roping.

That primed the pump for the four-eventer his rodeo scholarship says he is. Competing in team roping, tie down roping, saddle bronc and bare back riding, Muncy made college sports news again last weekend at Miami, Oklahoma college rodeo by winning the all around title.

Muncy�s performance in the tie down roping and the bareback riding added team points and help place the OPSU�s men�s team second overall in the Central Plains Region.

In the first round of the tie down roping, Muncy split first and second and went on to win a fourth in the average. In the bareback riding, he won first in the long go, placed fourth in the short round and won first in the average.

Fellow Corona cowboy, Casey Sisk, who is rodeoing from Ft. Scott Community College in the same region showed up in the results with a ninth in the average in the saddle bronc riding.

Muncy finds time to practice roping two nights a week and ride broncs two nights a week. The college team has this weekend off and will be back in arena Oct.28-29 in Alva, Oklahoma.

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i've seen where he's been placing at PRCA and NMRA rodeos also. Busy boy. (NT) -- Hap, 21:16:33 10/20/05 Thu

Varmit- -- Julie, 05:33:53 10/19/05 Wed
Is Wilma going to spoil your weekend?

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Maybe more then my weekend if I have to board up ahead of it. Still in the watching mode. Current prediction is showing it going about 80 miles or so below us, leaving us on the best side. If it goes a little farther south toward Fort Lauderdale, will not have to do anything to prepare for it. Really don't need it, got a feeder barn in the pasture from last years hurricanes that make the Paris leaning tower look straight. But anyways, its a wicked storm right now, the strongest ever since recorded history. We sure don't need to be the ones making history. (NT) -- Varmit, 06:35:03 10/19/05 Wed
- You're in luck! The one that leaned the barn came in from the other side, didn't it? This one may straighten the barn back up. You got it made!!!! (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 07:22:23 10/19/05 Wed
  - It may just put it on the ground. They just changed the forcast map and having it go straight across the state and right over us at a rapid forward speed. Not sure if that barn can handle to much straightening up. (NT) -- Varmit, 08:11:58 10/19/05 Wed

Carve a pumpkin like a Pro. -- Varmit, 18:23:36 10/18/05 Tue

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabotage/pumpkin_carve.asp

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Varmit's Link: Pumpkin Pro (NT) -- Crystal, 07:45:41 10/19/05 Wed

Leroy Brown bucks at Billy Bob's -- ZD Ranch, 10:01:30 10/16/05 Sun

Lonesome Dove
Rodeo Ranch
&
School for Bucking Bulls
Oct. 15, 2005

David J. Dill, Esq.
ZD Ranch
Archer Crossing
Texas

Dear Mr. Dill,

Sandy took me back to Billy Bob's Saturday night and I was pleased and proud to find that you had come to watch me. I am still a bit confused why that danged numnut's cowboy wanted to sit on me when there were a few seats left up there where you were sittin'. Any way, he could have seen me better and wouldn't have gotten a mouth full of dirt if he'd have picked another seat. I saw those pretty cowgirls in those tight Wranglers and some of 'em even had those 'low rider' ones with a tatoo on their back sides and a belly button ring. Geez, they were pretty and they smelled pretty good too.

I am now unridden in my 2 outs and I am sure that I will be called up to the big times soon. My horn is feeling much better now that Sandy cut the cracked part off. The other bulls are kinda' snickerin' at my bobed off horn but I can take care of that. That danged gay bull has even quit mooin' and batting his eyes at me. That guy is wierd.
I'm likin' it better here each day but I am still thinkin' about my cows at the ZD and I've dreamed about my babies that will be born in the Spring, so don't forget to come get me when the fresh grass puts out in March. In the meantime I'll just keep eatin this korn and moleasses along with some alfalfa and I'll keep stuffin' those cowboys faces in the dirt as it seems to really make Sandy happy. Do you know he even feeds me those cubes out of his hands now?
This place ain't so bad now that the weather is coolin' down and I am on the road to becomin' a super star. Did you notice how my coat is beginnin' to shines and that my brands have just about healed up?
I'm doin' good so don't worry about me but keep the tires aired up on your trailer because I want to come home in March.

Your famous pardner,

Leroy Brown

,P. S. What had Potsy been drinkin' to make her scream at me so loud?

YOU CAN SEE MY PICTURES HERE.

http://photobucket.com/albums/a158/ZDRanch/?sc=1

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ZD's link: Bad Bad Leroy Brown (NT) -- Crystal, 07:31:35 10/17/05 Mon
- I've always known there were lots of young bullriders who get their inspiration from the pretty, sweet smelling girls but never knew bulls felt the same way. Sounds like Leroy is doing OK. (NT) -- Hap, 07:16:08 10/19/05 Wed

Gene in Las Cruces -- Julie, 06:12:42 10/17/05 Mon
http://www.scsun-news.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051016/FEATURES/510160318/1090/SILVERCITY

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Julie's link: Gene in Las Cruces (NT) -- Crystal, 07:49:02 10/17/05 Mon

Cowboy Symposium Report -- Julie, 21:12:30 10/09/05 Sun
I came I saw I went.......
It as a jam packed event on Saturday (rained like hell today so pretty sure those wagons had to "mud it" out of the infield")
over 25 Wagons this year in the cook off..Food Network was back --there publicity has thing sold out for meals way early! They'll have to let in more wagons to meet the demand.
Lots of people..but I saw in a difference in the crowd this year. This is my third year of observing like a journalist :) and taking photos.
What I saw this year was a whole lot more tourists...a very small percentage there to be seen and look good.
The Cowboy Fashion police would have arrest an overwhelming larger number of performers than tourists---that's a change.
The chick playing the fiddle in a draped scarf skirt, tiny black top and a belly button ring with the aformentioned "hippopotaums cud" hat...we'll she fell on my "get'r gone " list--I don't care if she can play a mean western swing fiddle!

Vendors seemed to be doing well--# 1 seller"water" selling out most places---guess the almost 80 degrees was a big surprise as it started out at 45 when I left home and was foggy and cloudy....I wore a turtle neck and velour vest...and cooked all day and came home sunburned :) Go figure!

My 12 yr. old son Lane bought an RW CD...and got his autograph on it..AND with hit came a free Western Horseman with RW on the cover...again autographed. Lane is heaven. He told RW "This really means a lot to me"....I wonder if those guys know the impact they have on kids!
I tried to read the magazine tonite and he warned me not to tear it.

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We neighbored with an outfit that still ran a wagon and when I was in the 8th grade I was sent over there at shipping time. Main thing I noticed as a kid was the cook didn't have any bone in his forehead. He was repairing a truck tire and when he went to air it up the ring blew off and took his forehead with it. Dang, I think they have plates for that but he didn't have one. I guess a hat didn't fit too good with no forehead cause he never wore one. Going through the chow line I learned to keep my plate out in front and don't look up. No wonder I ain't all that smart, I missed alot of school days back then. Being a kid, you know where I spent all my time, back there in the dust. I don't know now how many we would drive, but it was more than I ever saw in one herd. I could never see the front guys, but where I was at I could barely see anything for the dust. (NT) -- Hap, 15:34:36 10/11/05 Tue

This article mentions he will be a millionaire. A guy on PBS said the contract is for $250,000 per year for five years. Way to go Clint. -- Hap, 15:09:56 10/11/05 Tue

Flint Rasmussen and Professional Bull Riders Sign 5 year Exclusivity

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (October 10, 2005) - The Professional Bull Riders (PBR) is proud to announce that Flint Rasmussen (Choteau, Mont.) has agreed to work PBR events exclusively for the next 5 years. Rasmussen, the official barrel man of the Built Ford Tough Series presented by Wrangler, has infused the role of barrel man with the type of uncontrived original performances never before seen in the traditional rodeo or bull riding arena. Not your stereotypical barrel man, Rasmussen has used his captivating humor and natural athleticism to entertain fans from Wyoming to New York and most everywhere in between. The former high school math and history teacher, who has been involved with the PBR since 1996, and has been selected to work the Built Ford Tough World Finals seven times, among numerous other honors.

Said Rasmussen, �I have given up the PRCA rodeos and will work every televised Built Ford Tough Series event as well as select Challenger Tour events such as Cheyenne or Pendleton; events that I have worked in the past.�

�In my opinion, there is only one funny man in the world that can entertain people every week and not get old,� said PBR CEO, Randy Bernard. �Flint�s primary responsibility is to make sure to keep the crowd alive during lulls or commercial breaks and he is the very best in the world at that.�

Explaining the decision and what the future holds, Rasmussen stated, �The PBR has given me a chance to take a step in a direction that will be full of new opportunities. It was a real hard decision to make but we made the choice to accept the PBR�s offer and obviously it�s the right one.�

Among the important factors influencing his choice, Rasmussen cited the intense workload and time away from home and family as major contributors. �Actually the PBR commitment meant a lot to me and one reason I did it is for the sanity of scheduling. I literally didn�t know if I would make it through the summer of 2005. I worked 26 rodeo performances in the month of July alone and it takes a toll.� Added Rasmussen, �I�ve heard some of the wives of PBR bull riders say that the PBR gave their husbands back to them in a sense because they travel 31 weekends out of the year versus a fulltime rodeo schedule. I relate to that and I feel like this is the best for a number of reasons, my family being the main one.�

�This deal is not only big for the PBR, but financially it�s an unprecedented deal for Flint,� continued Bernard. �It will make Flint a millionaire while being able to stay with his family more than ever. I think this is an important development because PBR realizes the fan is number one and we are insuring that they are going to see the very best show in the world. His show is different each and every night and when you are on the road 32 weeks a year that is important.�

�The fun has to be there,� summed up Rasmussen. �I�ll work real hard to make every PBR event the best show that I can. The PBR has recognized the value in what I try to do for the show and they stepped up with a commitment. In the past I�ve never felt like I totally had my own place as a performer and this gives me that place as the entertainer that I want to be,� concluded Rasmussen.

Rasmussen�s quick wit, contagious energy, and unforgettable dance moves come from his background as a former drama, track and football star. Rasmussen combines his inherent desire to entertain with his comedic talents and natural athleticism to charm audiences. Rasmussen was an all-state football player in high school, participating in band and choir as well. While attending Western Montana College in Dillon, he was a member of the jazz choir, played intra-mural sports, and worked the microphone as a public address announcer during college football and basketball games.

Flint and his wife, Katie, make their home on �Cowboy Way� Road in Choteau, Mont. with their two daughters, Shelby Rae, 6, and Paige 4. You can visit Flint's website at www.flintrasmussen.com.

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Oops, make that "Way to go, FLINT." (NT) -- Hap, 15:13:07 10/11/05 Tue

Gene's week end in Lubbock -- hart, 07:49:01 10/08/05 Sat
Hi all! Gene, I saw your post down below about Lubbock. I guess you were in the artsy side of town. I was there the same week end for a horse show and all I saw was dirty, sweaty folks in boots and jeans. It was also a game week end which puts a different spin on the town. Sorry that I missed your big event, I would have loved to have dropped by! I heard Paul Harvey give your book a big plug early this week. Congratulations!

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Hi Hart. Your comment that Lubbock has an artsy side is an original thought. But no, other than a few Mexican cowboys, I saw no one that didn't look like Beaver Cleaver on a football jag. Paul Harvey's rave was a real treat. I heard about it first from a Harvard professor, and then emails and calls moved westward with the time zone. Harvey's excitement is a great indication of this book's potential to reach outside the cowboy world, which has always been my strategy. I'm told that it hit a nerve in Harvey--he couldn't have seen the book before Friday, and was talking about it on Monday morning. His favorite photo spread was of Brutons moving cattle to the VLA satellite dishes. Construction workers now think I'm cool, and give me a thumbs up when we cross paths. One can't beat free advertising like that! (NT) -- Gene, 09:03:54 10/08/05 Sat
- Okay, the artsier side of town! Actually, where I was (southwest side) is pretty ritzy. Big fancy houses with an acre or so. Bobby Whathisname the basketball coach has a house there too. (NT) -- hart, 07:51:58 10/09/05 Sun

Gene, your book came today and I am truly impressed. The photography far overshadows the written text of your colleague. On another note, I got a package gift from a pal for who I put on a cowboy poetry program gratis. It's photos of the King Ranch and it too is impressive. I guess now that makes me a patron of the arts. -- ZD Ranch, 15:29:34 10/07/05 Fri
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Pink ostrich? -- Julie, 13:17:10 10/06/05 Thu
Anybody ever seen a hot pink ostrich?
By Julie Carter

I have been doing some concerned thinking about the image of the cowboy as seen by a generation; oh lets say, 50 years in the future.

I can only hope that their reference to wardrobe information would not be from the cover of any of today�s �western� wear catalogs or even the duded up images from cowboy poetry gatherings or other such collection points for cowboy loving fans.

I am truly concerned that the image of the real cowboy has been desecrated by the current version of the very icon of cowboy lore�his cowboy hat.

The new fad �cowboy hat� (and I do use that term very loosely) is an abomination. It looks like it�s been thrown down and driven over by a fleet of F-250 pickups loaded with wing- tipped line-dancing wanna be�s on their way to the honky tonk.

A recent Baxter Black column on the cowboy hat topic summed it up for me when he called it �the new Nashville, Santa Fe, Aspen, Toby Keith kind of floppy dishrag cowboy hat - which looks like a regurgitated hippopotamus cud.� Thank you Baxter. The visual is perfect.

Being a fairly nice guy, Baxter was finding a positive angle to this current fashion. He had determined that the folded up dipped down version of the cowboy hat was good for the airline traveling cowboy. It could be stuffed up in the overhead bin during the flight as required and it would not hurt the original �crease� at all.

I had one of those once. I carried it behind the seat in the pickup. I wore it only at the rodeo when I had to compete in the hurricane force winds and rain and the arena was a foot deep in mud. I knew if my hat ever came off, I wouldn�t want it back anyway.

Another good reason for an ugly hat is no one will steal it from you. I would say the theft rate on hats undoubtedly has dropped to almost nothing.

If the wadded up version of the cowboy hat isn�t bad enough, it gets worse in the female versions. Spray painted just about any color you can imagine, there is no wardrobe color you can�t match. And to add to the insult, they stick a big matching fluffy fuzzy feather in the hat band. To this day I have never seen a hot pink, lime green or passionate purple ostrich but darned if their feathers aren�t everywhere.

Somewhere along the way the cowboy hat got passed off as something of a romantic Wild West icon with no real function except to identify a cowboy in a crowd and/or make a fashion statement.

It is truly an identity to the cowboy but is also very functional. As originally intended, it shades the sun off the head and the face, ears and neck. The rains run off the brim and down the back of your slicker instead of down your neck into the inside of your shirt.

Tipped against the wind it can protect your face from the blowing dust. With your head ducked to your chest, riding into a snowstorm, it will protect against the slush trying to plaster your face. Other uses include watering your horse, fanning a fire, or signaling for help.

I continue to advocate that the cowboy hat should be designated as a historical landmark of national significance. Maybe then they�d quit insulting the cowboy with pink ostrich feathers in a hat that should never have happened.

�2005 Julie Carter

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I kinda' feel the same way about stampede strings with cotter keys to keep 'em on. Geez-0--! (NT) -- ZD Ranch, 13:55:49 10/06/05 Thu
- It will most likely look like one of those English jumping helmets. (NT) -- Varmit, 14:05:47 10/06/05 Thu
- LOL..yah those too ZD!! (NT) -- Julie, 06:36:51 10/08/05 Sat

Fort Worth will have team roping -- Varmit, 09:50:25 10/05/05 Wed
Posted on Tue, Oct. 04, 2005

When the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association gives the Fort Worth Stock Show Rodeo a mandate to make a change, the rodeo's organizers have a knack for working out a compromise.

It's a compromise that leaves the traditional Stock Show Rodeo with basically the same look and feel.

Four years ago, the PRCA informed the Stock Show that it no longer would approve the rodeo if it didn't stop using a portable chute for calf roping and steer wrestling. The PRCA said the Fort Worth rodeo needed to use a stationary chute to assure that cattle exited from precisely the same spot so no one would have an advantage in the timed events.

But after the Stock Show threatened to sever its relationship with the PRCA and create an open rodeo, the two parties reached a compromise. The PRCA allowed the Stock Show to anchor portable chutes with stakes driven into the dirt at the Will Rogers Coliseum.

The PRCA's latest mandate, handed down in August, is that all sanctioned rodeos must conduct team roping, beginning next year. In previous years, the Stock Show Rodeo has declined to feature the event.

When the Fort Worth rodeo organizers were informed of the decision, they argued that the PRCA had notified them too late, that the logistics for the Stock Show were planned and advertised and that there was no space for team roping.

The PRCA wouldn't allow the Fort Worth rodeo to wait until 2007 to add team roping, but the two parties compromised. Team roping has been scheduled Jan. 10 at Wade Arena in Terrell. The Stock Show Rodeo is Jan. 13 through Feb. 5 at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum.

"It's a very unusual situation," said Bob Watt, the Stock Show's president and general manager. "But we can't have it here [on Jan. 10] because we are still in the process of working on getting the facilities ready for the Stock Show."

Terrell is the hometown of Fort Worth's senior livestock producer, Neal Gay, who found a cost-effective alternative and said Wade Arena is well-equipped for team roping.

Over the years, it has become clear that the Stock Show and Gay are masters at producing a traditional rodeo that makes changes very slowly.

In 2007, team roping will be featured in each two-hour rodeo performance at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum. But, in 2006, every rodeo performance will have virtually the same look and feel as the 2005 edition.

ONLINE: fwstockshowrodeo.com prorodeo.com

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Whats the world coming to? -- Varmit, 16:10:52 10/06/05 Thu
Posted on Wed, Oct. 05, 2005

Hearing for Iowa rodeo operators set for Nov. 7

A district court in Lafayette Hill has set Nov. 7 to hear the case of two Bernard, Iowa, rodeo cowboys charged last month with illegally carrying horses in a two-tiered trailer through Montgomery County.

District Judge Deborah A. Lukens will hear the case of David Morehead, 50, owner of Three Hills Rodeo, and Matthew Delarm, 26, a rodeo performer.

The two men were stopped by Whitemarsh Township police on Sept. 18 as they left a Shriners rodeo at the LuLu Temple in Plymouth Meeting. The rodeo raises money to maintain the temple. Police said Morehead was driving a double-decker tractor-trailer with 19 horses on the second level, and Delarm was driving a similar vehicle with 17 horses above. In both cases, steers were riding below, police said.

Morehead said the horses were in a specially designed trailer.

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What if it does come true. -- Varmit, 17:57:09 10/05/05 Wed
Everybody has been talking about rodeo and bull riding and the future. But as one who really don't look to much toward the future ( as nothing is certain in life ), I had to wonder what would happen to rodeo and bull riding if this did come, and many are predicting it will happen.

Is called the Asia Bird Flu:

Last week, the U.N.'s health agency, the World Health Organization, sought to ease fears that the disease could kill as many as 150 million people worldwide.

Genetic studies showed the virus jumped directly from birds to humans, and caused severe illness with high mortality.

The more humans get infected, the greater the likelihood people can become infected with both human and bird flu strains.

I heard on the CNN news that the 1918 flu is very simular to this one and wiped out 100 million people when the world population was less then 1/3 of todays. I think they said more US military soldiers died from the flu then all the wars put together. The only safe way back then was to stay away from crowds and people.

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