Cowgirl on the Road

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photo from the arizonaracinghistory.com 

I wouldn't mind having a Playboy....car that is...what fun!

Update

**NEWS ON STOLEN HORSES** Four of the five horses were found late last night deep in the woods outside of Idabell, OK. All received immediate veterinarian attention. They were found tied to trees with no food or water and had been there for an unknown # of days. The 5th horse, sorrel gelding, calf roping horse w/ JK brand on right hip is still missing. Please keep spreading the word to look out for the last horse. This 5th horse could have been sold, or let loose somewhere. Thank you to everyone who helped spread the word and find these horses!

Stolen Alert

Having had this happen to me in the past, I want as many eyes on the lookout as possible. Please call the number at the bottom if you see anything.  The more people aware & looking the better, Thanks!

ALERT: This morning (11/3) between 12:00am and 7:00am someone stole five roping horses, a featherlite gooseneck stock/combo trailer, many saddles, and many bits from the college rodeo barn in Magnolia, Arkansas. The trailer has Georgia plates. The five horses include, Ashley Mills good black horse with a rockin M brand... on left hip. A sorrel blaze face horse with a rockin V on his left shoulder, right hip has a backward L with a K. There was also a grey mare with no markings, a buckskin mare with a star on her head, and a black mare with a circle M brand on left hip. Please help us find these horses. If you have any information please call 870.904.3067

what we need

The Wild Geese
by Wendell Berry


Horseback on Sunday morning,
harvest over, we taste persimmon
and wild grape, sharp sweet
of summer's end. In time's maze
over the fall fields, we name names
that went West from here, names
that rest on graves. We open
a persimmon seed to find the tree
that stands in promise,
pale, in the seed's marrow.
Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear,
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye
clear. What we need is here.

Sparkle Plenty

I'm sure I will go down in the family annuals as Sparkle Plenty's mom.  Marymine has always, always been the glitter queen.  She can burn thru a couple hundred jars of that Martha's glitter like nobodies business. 
So, it's that time of year....Homecoming.  Marymine, has two in high school, so it's a pretty big deal around here. Yesterday I pruned (hacked) down the shrubs (jungle) around her  house...so you could see all the tactfully gaudy decorations she has put up.  As I was hacking...err...pruning my way across the wilderness...a glimmer came over me.  I thought this might be due to my extreme bravery in  even attempting to make the decorations visible from the freeway a mile away...  Nope, it was Sparkle Plenty at work...dusting the shrubs (and me) with glitter... See, she is set on winning the best decorated homecoming home contest.  There will be a perpetual trophy!