I had a rodeo this weekend. I ran a 15.4 in barrels. Yay. I had a really wide barrel though. But hey all  the barrels were left up. Three runs in a row like that.. I'm stoked. Haha. I ran a 24.4 in poles. It wasn't my best run but my new horse hasn't been ran on poles in about three years. I was happy I got that. I think I got like seventh. I was sittin 2nd overall in points.. but I lost it cuz they only give points to the top six. <-- If yall don't get that let me know and I'll try to explain it more. I didn't do so hot in goats.. and again I missed in breakaway.

I learned something this weekend though. I don't need a guy to make me happy. I was talkin to this guy and I really liked him.. and we had talked before and I had told him that it just wasn't gonna work because of rodeo and my friends. Well he still liked me and stuff and I was tryin really hard to find a way to see him. Well I went to a softball game to see him. (Dardanelle vs. Clarksville). He just ignored me and stuff and it really made me mad. Like he would talk to me but not very much. SO.. I was like ok. Then on the way out he got mad at me for steppin on his damn shoe. I didn't mean too. He was like "Quit doin that it's pissin me off" and I was like "Get over it. It's not that bigga deal. Damn!" and I walked off. I was tired of it. He left without sayin good bye. So I texted him and we kinda got into it.. ((There is more to this story.. but I don't feel like typin it all.. Sorry.)). He called me about 10:45 that night and was like I don't like people bein mad at me please don't... Well he like quit textin me before that.. Come to find out that he is datin this chick now that I go to school. I was really upset at first but now it's just like oh well. He wasn't worth it. I love the sayin {Sometimes it's better to remember what you deserve and forget how you feel}. I didn't deserve to be treated the way he treated me.. but I liked him. But I'm glad it didn't work out. It doesn't bother me anymore like I thought it would. I have talked to my friends about it and they said I deserve better and I do. I GOT MY HORSES, RODEO, AND MY FRIENDS TO MAKE ME HAPPY. I DON'T NEED A GUY!!! Haha. Guess I just figured that out though.. Oh well.. There is a time in life for everything...

*Riding:  The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.  ~Author Unknown

*It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall.  ~Mexican Proverb

*No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.  ~Winston Churchill

*It's always been and always will be the same in the world:  The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.  ~Author Unknown

*Heaven is high and earth wide.  If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.  ~Rudolf C. Binding

*The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.  ~Arabian Proverb

*To ride a horse is to ride the sky.  ~Author Unknown

*There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.  ~Robert Smith Surtees, "Chapter XXX: Bolting the Badger," Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853

*I bless the hoss from hoof to head -
From head to hoof, and tale to mane! -
I bless the hoss, as I have said,
From head to hoof, and back again!
~James Whitcomb Riley

*Horses are uncomfortable in the middle and dangerous at both ends.  ~Attributed to both Christopher Stone and Ian Fleming

*It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!  ~Nicholas Evans

*A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.  ~Beryl Markham

*All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.  ~Author Unknown    (so true..)

*If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle.  ~Rita Mae Brown

*A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.  ~John Steinbeck

*A horse is worth more than riches.  ~Spanish Proverb

*When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something.  When you're my age, you splatter.  ~Roy Rogers

*It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse.  This, however, I have.  I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.  ~Stephen Leacock

*In riding a horse we borrow freedom.  ~Helen Thomson

*You know horses are smarter than people.  You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.  ~Will Rogers

*To me, horses and freedom are synonymous.  ~Veryl Goodnight

*God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.  ~R.B. Cunninghame Graham, letter to Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

*A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks, but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more than a loan.  ~Pam Brown

*Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride,
Friendship without envy,
Or beauty without vanity?
Here, where grace is served with muscle
And strength by gentleness confined
He serves without servility; he has fought without enmity.
There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent.
There is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.
~Ronald Duncan, "The Horse," 1954

*Horses lend us the wings we lack.  ~Author Unknown

*Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think.  That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.  ~Charles M. Russell

*Somewhere in time's own space
There must be some sweet pastured place
Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow
Some paradise where horses go,
For by the love that guides my pen
I know great horses live again.
~Stanley Harrison

*People have always cared me a bit, you see - they're so complicated.  I suppose that's why I prefer horses.  ~From the movie Separate Tables, 1958 (love this one)

*The horse is God's gift to mankind.  ~Arabian Proverb

*In my opinion, a horse is the animal to have.  Eleven-hundred pounds of raw muscle, power, grace, and sweat between your legs - it's something you just can't get from a pet hamster.  ~Author Unknown

*If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong.  ~Pat Parelli

*A woman needs two animals - the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it.  ~Author Unknown

*Horses - if God made anything more beautiful, he kept it for himself.  ~Author Unknown

*If you want a stable friendship, get a horse.  ~Author Unknown

*My horse's feet are as swift as rolling thunder
He carries me away from all my fears
And when the world threatens to fall asunder
His mane is there to wipe away my tears.
~Bonnie Lewis

*A dog may be man's best friend, but the horse wrote history.  ~Author Unknown

*He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.  ~Stephen Leacock

*A horse is poetry in motion.  ~Author Unknown


*A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger.  ~James Rarey


*She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.  ~Jean M. Auel

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THIS IS MY LAST ONE. I PROMISE. I LOVE THESE THOUGH SO I HAD TO POST THEM.

Barrel Racer's Prayer

Lord, I might seem so little
Sitting up here all alone
Astride the mountain of a horse
You made of muscle, of bone.
But, together we're a team, Lord
With one goal in mind,
To make it around the cloverleaf
In record breaking time.
Please, keep my horse surefooted,
Let me hang on to my quirt.
Racing around those barrels
With one stirrup in the dirt.
As we make that last runaround
And we quickly race for home.
Win or lose, record or not,
With You we're never alone.
I thank You for being there,
Keeping my horse and my safe
And Lord, With Your Divine help,
We will compete in our next race.

I'm A Barrel Racer

I'm a Barrel Racer, Lord.
A quick time is what I need.
Just to turn these three barrels
With a descent amount of speed.
I've hauled a lot of miles
To run this horse of mine.
To make each barrel race
And then the next one down the line.
If it's a spill that I take
Please, Lord keep the dirt soft
For another run I'll make
Just as soon as I dust off.
My chin I'll keep it up,
And my tears, I'll try to hide,
Then I'll climb back in my saddle
Ever anxious for my next ride.
To win or lose with grace.
For some other girl will want to win
This very same barrel race.
So let us ride as one, Lord,
My barrel horse and me.
For hard work and perseverance,
I believe this is the key.
We've trained and we've worked hard
And if I win, You know of course,
To you I'll give the glory,
To you and to my horse.