Wednesday, September 15, 2010

By the Light of Cell Phone

By the Light of a Cell Phone ~

Yesterday afternoon I feel the familiar rattle of a horse trailer going by. I look outside just in time to see Dad's aluminum trailer bouncing down the gravel road. I call Dad & he says "We're going to cut studs. Come down if you want." Well, seems like a grand way to spend the evening & a great chance to snap some pictures. I haven't been down to this neighbors coral since I was young. After being lost for a few minutes I make my way down in the field with my car....which I have to leave along side the road when the creek crosses the road. Just as I was examining the best spot to try to jump the creek...Someone came down & picked me up. (luckily...I'm not sure I would have cleared it & I'm glad I didn't have to find out :)

Here are some pictures from the evenings events:

Starting out across the pen to catch one

Hot Pursuit

Catch 'em on the Corner

The Throw

Your Turn Partner







Vaquero
Big Loops

Escape Artist



Sagebrush & Sunsets

SO....I almost forgot! The header lost his rope. I was on the youngest person on the ground crew so I run over to the corner to grab his rope for him. This happened a few times. No big deal. Well, I slide in on the last horse to grab the rope off of the ground.....all the sudden I look up in time to yell & JUMP sideways out of the line of fire! Two head of horses HEADED OUT of the corner &thru me appeared to be the path of least resistance! They missed me by atleast a foot :)
Thank the good Lord above for protecting the ignorant! :)


Big Sky & Big Dreams
It was quite the wild evening! Right at Dusk we had a visitor in a Motorized Flying Vehicle float over the corrals & wave hello. I thought for sure that would be the coolest thing to happen but it was quickly topped when Dad jerked out his cell phone as a light to see to cut the last horse.

Sunset Pictures from night before last just out the back yard! The human eye is spectacular...the power of it's lens & everything that it can take it.....simply AMAZING! No man made camera can do it justice but here is a small glimpse of the beauty I saw that night.





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Last but certainly not least, a valueable lesson learned. Dad's knife is getting dull & he asks if mine is sharp. I say...NO....I had been opening boxes & had a lady leg knife dull from twine & packaging tape. LOL....how embarassing I have tons of knives ...doing me no good at all at home!
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4 comments:

  1. wow.
    I've been to ropings where we had to use pickup headlights to finish the fast go but never used cell phone power.
    LOVE the pictures of the cross ties!

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  2. This is Lori, not Jessica.
    I'm just hacking into her google account..
    :)

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  3. Lori, I added one lil story I forgot :) Sorry

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