It's the steers in the mud...

This is one of those Mondays. You know, the kind where you wake up and just want to roll over and go back to sleep all day. I wish the sun would shine a little bit. It's rained nonstop all weekend. It rained so much that the river came out of the banks and flooded about 50 yards into the pasture. They had to move the cows early in the morning so they wouldn't get washed away.

Friday night I went with Sean and two other steer wrestlers to the Rodeo in Forrest City. The steers were horrible and Sean never even got a chance to get off his steer. The arena was very small but lots of people were there. Again, I wish I had a camera to take better quality pictures. We were in the middle of some crop field right next to the State prison. I could just imagine a prison break happening in the middle of the rodeo and the escaped prisoners coming to the rodeo to mug someone, take their clothes, and blend into the crowd and kill me. My imagine runs wild sometimes... Anyway, I've decided to make a picture montage of all the places I go with Sean this year. That way I remember everything and I don't get so bored sitting in the stands by myself. There are so many things interesting to see at these rodeos. Most of them are put on by smaller towns and a lot of them are either part of a fair or some sort of festival. It's always fun to see the different types of folks that show up and see all the kids excited about the events. I guess I've been going to so many so long, it's lost all of the excitement for me, now it's just boring and I can't wait for it to be over. The atmosphere at most of these rodeo's are so laid back and so slow. It seems that everyone forgets the hustle and bustle of daily life and just lets time go in slow motion, I like that feeling. It seems weird I think of the rodeo as slow and laid back because all the events are timed and everyone is in a hurry to get their steer thrown, or calf roped, but it's just the whole small town "old west" atmosphere that seems slow; the southern drawls, the lemonade and iced tea, the kids running wild, warm sticky weather, the lazy mosquitoes, and the smell of leather. Don't tell Sean but I kind of like this lifestyle.

Afternoon Suprise

Oh I'm so excited! I went for a walk with the Chocolate Children yesterday and we went down by the pond. It's really wet down there so it's more like a swamp than a pond. Banjo and I were just down there a few weeks ago but yesterday we found that these beautiful wild Irises had bloomed. They were everywhere and so beautiful! I had no idea they were there (and neither did Sean because he told me if he'd have known he would've scored some major free brownie points for giving me flowers). I'm going to keep a fresh bouquet on my counter until they quit blooming. Then I'm going to get their bulbs and put them in my front yard, which is more like a front swamp also! This was a nice surprise on such a beautiful afternoon. Please excuse my blurry photos. If I don't use my flash on my camera I have to be extra still or it will be blurry, obviously I couldn't stay still...which proves even more my need for a new camera. Mom informed me today that her lenses to her high power film camera, which is a Canon, will fit any Canon camera and she has like 4 different lenses, so I think I will be researching a Canon to buy instead of a Nikon!! Yay less money to spend for me! Have a great weekend! I'm off to the Rodeo.

Fog

This morning I woke up to find my back yard invisible. If only my camera could've captured the view a bit more realistically...it was breathtaking.

Jealous

***Notice the new ticker I have added. It will count the money I have put
back until I have saved enough reached my set goal tobuy my
camera. You can contribute also!! I take all major
credit cards and you can
make checks payable to Jenna Thomas***

My friend Shannon bought this really cool high powered digital camera a month or so ago. She talked about it for a long time and finally saved up enough money to buy it.

To be honest, I thought she was crazy to buy an expensive high powered camera, but after playing with it and seeing the results, I have officially decided to buy a good quality Camera. I have picked out the Nikon D 90 camera kit that includes two zoom lenses. Why did I pick these? Because the PW said they were pretty awesome cameras and after doing some research I agreed. I have the kit picked out and it includes everything I will need to take great action shots of my Chocolate Children and of my Hubby on his Horses. It includes a camera bag, extra batteries, memory cards, cables, and of course the camera and two zoom lenses. I'm so excited. I've decided to put back a certain amount every week and then steal some money from Sean to pay for the rest of it. I want it by the end of Summer so I'll have it in time for the rodeo finals to take pictures of Sean.

I already have a digital camera, but as you can tell from my pitiful action photos they just don't compare to the pictures that Shannon took. I have a pink Kodak Easy Share with an Easy share printer that Sean bought me for my birthday which is awesome for photos of me and my friends or for when we go out to events, but for action shots of Sean and the CC I really want something with better results. I also have a JVC video camera that Sean bought me for my birthday so at all the rodeo's this year, I'm already equipt with a video camera so he can critique his runs but now I'll have to pawn that on someone else so I can take awesome camera shots!











How Awesome is this shot?? I've zoomed in on Sean's foot. Can you see his Spur Flying off?? He broke it and had to buy new ones! I can't believe this was caught on camera!


Shannon took some really great shots! She gave me a CD of all the shots she took at the Jackpot we had at our arena last month. She also included some of me and Sean and Banjo (pre Birdie) I have included some below.

Just to be clear, I was joking about the whole contribution to my camera fund thing....unless you just want to pay me?