Clicking the pics will show a bigger picture, but not the blood sweat and tears that makes up a rodeo.
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OFM
2/14/2022 05:53:06 pm
This is a wonderfully good blog entry for me. Rodeos and I have never been close. I look forward to more education. Thank you for the details in particular.
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Tom
2/14/2022 06:44:06 pm
Thank you Barney, that was very much appreciated. I was pretty much forced to get interested in rodeos when my 16-year-old son joined the National High School Rodeo Association and started riding bulls. He rode for a couple of years, with him and I camping at different rodeo arenas all over Colorado. Thank goodness he finally came to his senses before he was killed.
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OFM
2/14/2022 07:05:29 pm
It often seems strange to folks I meet because I am not even a little bit cowboy and call myself Texan. However my mother was half cajun and lots of my relatives were way south folks in the Louisiana delta. I was raised shrimp, oysters, crabs and fish instead of bovine stock. But dem cajuns were real good with a grill no matter which food we had available.
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Tom
2/14/2022 07:24:17 pm
I know a lot of folks in Texas aren't into that cowboy mentality. And the closer you get to that Louisiana coast the more Cajun Texans start to become. And by the time you start seeing alligators in Texas waters there's not much difference between Texas and Louisiana. But I do love Cajun cooking and I know what to do with a big plate of crawdads, or mudbugs as they're known in some areas. One of my favorite singers has always been the "Raging Cajun", Doug Kershaw and his song "Louisiana man.".... safe travels tomorrow, I know you must be thrilled to get to someplace new.
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Judith
2/14/2022 08:44:59 pm
"Unlimited access to an old shutdown rodeo arena."
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Tom
2/14/2022 08:53:58 pm
Nope, sure didn't. Although I could easily have climbed over the fences, there was no need to, there was easy access to every area. I wish there was more mystery to it, and I had to sneak in at midnight wearing a ninja costume carrying an infrared spy camera.... But, I can't stay awake till midnight, I don't think they make a ninja costume in my size, and my camera is way too large to be a spy camera.
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Linda
2/15/2022 01:27:09 pm
Very informative. Thanks for educating me.
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Tom
2/15/2022 01:58:35 pm
Thank you Linda, I just wasn't sure anybody wanted to be educated about rodeo. It seems pretty low on people's list of things to care about.
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Linda
2/16/2022 03:35:28 pm
I think the closest I got in person to a rodeo is when we pulled into a city campground on a Sunday night in North Dakota just as the high school rodeo people were leaving. The next closest would be the animal barn at the Minnesota State Fair--no rodeo, though.
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Tom
2/16/2022 04:42:21 pm
It was about the same for me Linda, until my youngest son got interested in it, then it got my attention real quick.
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