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The sound of the whinny, the smell of the manure.

2/14/2023

Anytime is the right time to click a pic.

The Hunter jumper competition is held against a backdrop of the Santa Rita mountains.

It was a decent day today with sunny, blue skies, but I don't think it ever got up to 60, so with a breeze blowing, it was slightly uncomfortable. Since it's been so chilly since I started my winter travels. While I was at Walmart, I bought some thicker winter sweatpants to use as pajamas since all I had were thin summer sweatpants that weren't very warm when I got out of bed in the mornings. Hopefully, these warmer sweatpants will keep me more comfortable when I step outside to take a sunrise picture.

Many horse trailers have been coming into the Fairgrounds today since there's another Hunter Jumper competition starting tomorrow. And I believe this one will be bigger than the last one.

At the same time, the horse trailers were coming in; the unsold new RVs were leaving and returning to the dealership. I never got a chance to ask anyone at the RV show how RV sales have been going. But since I didn't see many new RVs leaving during the show being driven by smiling RVers, and the weather on most days was not all that great, I'm assuming the RV salesman have had better days.

I've still got another 9 or 10 days here at the Fairgrounds, but I've been giving some thought to where I want to go when I leave here, and two things are going to determine my future, and that is the weather and whether are not there's a flower Super-Bloom.

Looking at the ten-day weather forecasts in Arizona and New Mexico, I'm still not seeing any warm weather in either of those places. And even though the Internet says the possibility of a Super-Bloom is improving, nobody is still sure what will happen.

So it looks like this is another one of those times when I'm glad I'm a boondocker so when the time comes, I can make up my mind at the last minute about where I want to go, and what I want to do. And whatever and wherever it is I know I will be happy and comfortable .

theboondork

Concentration.

Not everyone jumping here is a "spring chicken," and for the life of me I can't imagine why anyone that's not a spring chicken would want to take the chance of falling off of a horse.... Not like it never happens.

Part of the scoring for this competition is based on how well the rider and the horse look. So I guess you're supposed to look like this.

I looked it up on the Internet to see why some horses are wearing a doily on their head. And apparently some horses are bothered by extraneous sounds, and these are actually earplugs that lessen the horses ability to hear things that bother him.

5 Comments

Judith

2/14/2023 08:03:23 pm

Once again, some fine photos and I learn something new. Horse ear mufflers. Not sure I approve, but they didn't ask me and aren't likely to. Horses put up with a lot. Sort of like dogs do. And that woman, grown-up for a long time, is one nervy person. Don't see how she could contemplate recovering from a fall. Which as you say, does happen sometimes. Sheesh. Anyway, thanks.

Tom

2/14/2023 09:10:44 pm

Thank you, Judith. Yeah, earmuffs for horses must be new because I've never seen them before. I think some people decorate their horses like they decorate their cars.

Yeah, you don't see too many older folks doing the Hunter Jumper thing, maybe because if they've been riding a horse that long, they're probably all busted up and can't ride anymore.

Tom

Larry Worsham

2/15/2023 10:03:14 am

I guess you could accuse me of bringing with me as I head west. We left Tx last friday and have had nothing but cold and windy weather. I thought you said Arizona was warm!!!! LOL! I would take credit for the weather but it is blowing from the west to the east. Headwinds. We are currently at Roper State Park in Safford and heading over to the Glendale area on Friday if the winds allow. Enjoying the pics...keep it up. Larry

2/15/2023 06:27:24 pm

I blame all the weather problems we've been having in Arizona on global warming. Since the world is warming up, especially in the desert areas of Arizona, this heat caused by global warming is causing the desert areas to get so hot, that the hot desert air rises up, as hot air always does which is why I float effortlessly several feet off the ground most of the time. And this rising hot air leaves a global emptiness that allows cold Arctic air, which is heavier than normal air, to sneak under all of that hot air and fill up that global emptiness with freezing air.

Now it won't take long before all of the cold heavy air leaves the Arctic and completely fills up the rest of the earth so that we can all move to the Arctic where it will be warm year-round, and I predict this will all happen by summer, so I'm getting ready by packing up my Hawaiian shirts and sandals so I can boondock in the Arctic when global warming makes it too cold to live in the rest of the world.

Be safe in your travels,
Tom

2/15/2023 06:54:00 pm

That is the most clear explanation of the climate situation that I have heard. Thank you for the clarification.....I will forward this the Paris Accords so they can act accordingly. LOL!!!

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