May was quite busy after a major storm on April 29th knocked out our power for four days, an impromptu trip to Virginia to visit my sister, practicing at the saddle club, taking lessons, plus squeezing in two barrel races and a rodeo, a Memorial Day parade, oh and a little detour to Pittsburgh for … More Follow the Rodeo Road
‘April showers bring May flowers’, everyone knows the famous saying, but I think we tend to forget that we have to deal with all the rain before the flowers can bloom. I feel like all this rain is really on point for my life right now, literally and figuratively. We need the rain, but the … More April Showers
April brought showers and our first rodeo! We went to an open rodeo for slack, with an entry fee of $50. It was about a 1.5 drive to get to the rodeo. Then we made our way to a local show, less than 15 minutes away. I signed up for year-end points ($15) and entered … More April 2025 Expenses
Talk about an expensive month, I definitely don’t want to do that again. We started out this month with not only one but two vet visits. Now the second one was a virtual follow up, but it still resulted in a second bill. Our first visit bill included a reevaluation of Stinger’s lameness, sedation, another … More March 2025 Expenses
December Expenses Well, the December expenses took a little bit of a wild ride, because I bought a horse! Believe it or not, this was my first time picking out and buying a horse for myself. Every other horse I rode was either bought for me by my parents or borrowed. (Or in the case … More December Expenses and Year End Recap
At the beginning of October, we finally finished fixing the barn wall and were able to focus more on the horses instead of just turning them out every day. We decided to start trotting hills to help Diesel get back in shape and to strengthen Stinger’s stifles. We were ponying them up the hill with … More Long Awaited Answers
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at The Barrel Racer’s Journal! This is how I imagine this conversation went between the horses today. I didn’t have a picture of all the horses together due to the way our barn is set up, but I included some of them each separately looking out the doors. Stinger … More Comic 4: Thanksgiving
Ever since I was little, I can remember the excitement that surrounds the fair. My parents have been attending our county fair since the 90s and I have been going ever since I was 6 months old. It is almost like a vacation to us, if vacations consisted of work. I’m only sort of kidding. … More September Shenanigans
Sometimes all it takes is one moment to change your future. When you look back at it, it seems so small. You can spend hours analyzing everything leading up to it and how you would do things differently to change the outcome. We had one of those moments this summer. It took me a while … More Change of Plans
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