Driving home from Malta and our boys were a little more than tired!
Guess they shouldn't have celebrated so hard after the rodeo!
We had two ranch rodeos this past week, one in Livingston on the 5th and one in Malta on the 7th. We've had to do some shuffling around on our actual team members due to haying and harvesting but we have made due and had the opportunity to ride with some amazing people.
Thursday night in Livingston we found that even though you try your hardest everyone comes across hard luck, this is where we ran in to ours! Billy Buchannan substituted for Charlie on our team, then it was still Cliff, Jim Bob and I. We had three bronc rides on our team aside from the ranch bronc Cliff had to get on, luckily everyone got 'em covered. We placed in a couple events, the Wild Cow Milking and the Bronc Riding, both of our stronger events but not enough to put us in the money :( We made some stupid mistakes in others but all in all we had a good time and came home unscathed.
Saturday we loaded up & headed to Malta with two new members, Pat Heminger and Jake Heyneman replaced Charlie & Jim Bob, so with half a new crew, 7 dogs and 5 horses we headed out. We got there, (barely) and were the clear underdogs, as we had the only girl (me) competing and the only one still in high school competing and since none of us had all ridden together before we were a little green as far as the team was concerned.
We sold in the calcutta for $25 while the hometown teams all were around the $200 range - clearly we were being under-estimated... so what did we do? We went out & rocked the place winning the first three events - Team Branding, Team Trailer Loading, and the Ranch Bronc Riding and placed no lower than 4th in the other 2 events, Wild Cow Milking & Team Doctoring. Being the only team to place in every event we schooled the competition and wound up winning the whole deal which guaranteed us a spot in the NILE Ranch Rodeo Finals this fall, we also secured the Top Hand Award and just missed the honors of Top Horse. Thanks in large part to Pat's roping skills and Cliff's bronc riding! The hometown teams were not so impressed but luck just happened to fall in our laps that day... well, luck thrown on top of skill of course!
Cliff and Pat both entered the Ranch Bronc Riding after the rodeo, both made nice rides but the payout was for first place only. Videos to follow as soon as I can fugure out how to upload them from my ipod!
This weekend will be the first annual Vern Bakker Memorial Ranch Rodeo, hopefully we can do the name well but we will see!
Come out if you're in town and enjoy the show! It's for a good cause and should be a great time!
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