Time Flies!

Holy cow it's been awhile!
Well since last post I have been to the State Fair in Puyallup with HotRod, started school, been all over and busy. That's why there haven't been many posts.
State Fair was an interesting experience this go around. I went in 2009 then decided the hoops weren't worth it the next year and decided to just do it this year. So HotRod, mom and I went! I earned a red ribbon in my fit and show because I messed on my "quartering system" I was upset :( then in my English class I earned a blue ribbon. I was very please with HotRod, he moved out very well for me. Then in trail we had one of our cleanest goes of the year! I was so happy with my boy! The next night, yes warming up in the dark is very icky. HotRod and I had western equitation. We battled through with the naughty horses and strange flashing lights outside to get a blue ribbon and called to return for the championship round! I was so nervous I thought I was going to throw up! My grin had to be from ear to ear! All I wanted was to return in on of my classes and I got my goal! HotRod could have cared less. So I went back to the barn and learned my pattern. I was not going to mess this up. Then they called for all the riders in the championship round to return to the show ring to perform one at a time the written pattern. HotRod and I were in the middle of the group. We went. Then the rest of the riders and they had us line up in the center of the ring. They called the placings starting with eighth. They called sixth place and my number! I was flabbergasted! To actually place was so exciting! Oh I was so happy and proud of my HotRod at that moment I almost cried! The next morning we rode our bareback class for a blue ribbon. At 2 that afternoon we cleaned stalls, hooked up trailers and headed home. I had a decent trip.

I started school on September 19 at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake. Things have gone extremely well! I am passing all my classes and enjoying it so much! Just driving that far everyday is fairly tiring. Especially now that we have snow on the ground. My inner granny comes out heehee. I am not one for rushing in the snow. My 50 min drive turned into an hour and ten minutes. The freeway was horrible then Dodson Road was disastrous. I can't spell, sorry.

On November 5th my parents and I were out doing yard work and HotRod came to the fence. So I took him a carrot. He kept hanging around so I thought "hey I should get on you!". My mom said she wouldn't give me a leg up because she knew it would end bad. So my dad gave me a leg up. I mean it's HotRod, we trust him, he's easy going. I was bareback and bridless in the pasture with the other two horses. I tested my starts and stops. They worked. I asked HotRod to walk forward, but Daisy was there and kind of jumped and all three horses took off running. Then HotRod bucked, I went sky high and then landed on my left side on the frozen pasture ground. Oh it hurt. I laid there scared to move. I'd hit my elbow and hip pretty hard. My parents came over and HotRod came RUNNING back to me. He was so worried, kept grabbing at me with his mouth trying to get me to do something. My parents got me to roll over onto my back. Then helped me up. I couldn't bare any weight on my left leg and thought I was going to throw up. So dad brought out his little red truck to get. HotRod was still right by me, worried as ever. They got me into the truck and dad drove me to the house. Mom got me inside and I sat for about an hour to calm down. After that I still went pale and was nauseous when I put weight on my leg so off to the walk-in clinic my and I went. They got me in a room and then down to x-ray. They MADE me ride in a wheelchair, that was horrible. Got my x-rays back with nothing broken thankfully. The doctor was worried my hip or pelvis would have something wrong from where the pain was. I was so happy nothing was broke or cracked or anything. So now today, the 16th my elbow is still bruised, left hip still sore, probably 5inch across bruise on my thigh and a couple higher. Hurt to touch and riding is a bit painful too. That was an exciting day. Needless to say I learned my lesson about bareback and bridless in the the pasture with other horses.

I am really looking forward to having a week off from school for my birthday, oh I mean Thanksgiving(;

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

Summer is coming to a close...

Since my last post I've been to a Buckskin Show in Spokane and to the Grant County Fair. The show in Spokane was...interesting, to say the least. Fair was great. HotRod and I had Reserves in everything and one Grand Champion. My lamb received a blue and a call back in market and I received a blue in fit and show with the little devil. The lamb was sold in the livestock sale and loaded onto a truck. I don't know where they take him. Now with HotRod I will be attending the State Fiar in Puyallup from September 8 through the 12. There we will compete in showmanship, bareback, western, english and trail. My horse is my wonder-man!

While Royal School District will start school on Thursday the 25, I will not. I don't start till September 19. The community college starts later. I will pick up my books today because I've remembered. At the college I'll be taking Math 95, English 101, College Survival Skills and a group piano class. I'm fairly excited, but also nervous. I'm just happy I won't be at that high school anymore.

Now that summer is closing I realize all the things I didn't do this summer, friends I never saw and placed I never went. Oh well, I'm 16, there's lots of time for those things...right?

Picture Time...!

English

Trail

Trail

Halter

Showmanship

Western

Cara on Daisy and me on HotRod out for a morning ride

My Memory!

It's been almost 2 months! Whoo! New record!!


So much has gone on. I've been to shows and that's about all that's new.
I've been to a few in Moses Lake and to American Buckskin Congress in Nampa, Idaho. HotRod was a rockstar that weekend! It was a three day show. We came out with two hi-points. Which included a new belt buckle, a girl can never have too many!


I have my FFA lamb, T-Rex. In order to catch him I have to rope him, then ride him and THEN I can halter him. He doesn't really lead very well on a halter or my his head. Fair will be just great again.


We've been making hay. Lots of it! There's been lots of  swathing, fluffing, raking, baling and stacking. It's never ending fun!


I will be attending Big Bend Community College starting September 19. I am slightly nervous, but it will be a much needed change for me in my schooling life. I was hating the high school by the end of the year. I was excited to get my sign-out paper signed! I could not get out of that school fast enough!! There were just enough things happening that in my opinion were just plain wrong that it was not a good place for me to be anymore. It's great for some people, but not for me.


At the fair I will be shooting to place well with HotRod so I can go ride at the Washington State 4-H Fair in Puyallup. I went in 2009 which was my first full year showing HotRod. We didn't go last year because of the hurdles that were set by the county. I've decided I will be going this year since we didn't go to the World Show in Tulsa. (That's next year!) I jumped the hurdles for state and now just have to ride a the fair.


Now, don't hold your breath for my next post (;


I'll get some show pics up ASAP!

I Remembered My Blog....Finally!

Again.. I know it.. I’ve neglected my blog. I’m sorry. I have a good excuse. School. HotRod. Golf. Life. Those are wonderful excuses if you ask me.

School. Is well school. I don’t like it much. It gets in the way and angers me. The teachers think they know everything and are always right, but they aren’t. Their heads are just too thick to realize that. If they really knew how many times they were wrong, they would probably be pretty aggravated. Then since I’m a sophomore I had to take the HSPE, for those that don’t know it’s the High School Proficiency Exam. It’s the replacement for the WASL. I’ve done the reading and writing and science. It’s a waste. It determines if I graduate or not. Again my health teacher was being rude. We filled out things about what we are in our community, I only had citizen down. She was questioning me why I didn’t have church member. Yes I’m white. No, I’m not Mormon. She kept asking me if I was a church member to which I replied no. She was pretty adamant about asking. Talk about discrimination! She then just recently wrote me up for having my iPod out during a video that we were watching for the THIRD time! I knew I wasn’t suppose to have it out, but she never enforces her rule. At least not until I’m the kid with my iPod out, so she wrote me up and I had to serve an hour detention. This school is horrible. The teachers don’t push you to do better unless you are below, no one that could be ahead is pushed. UGH! I’m so happy I only have 17 days left!

One my most recent accomplishments has been testing into the Running Start program that I will start in the fall. I will for sure be taking Math 95 and English 101. I’m so excited!!

HotRod. In shape. Shiny. Full of himself. Total baby. If only he wasn’t so lazy. But he’s a good boy. Carried Cara to a victory at a schooling show. Won the Showmanship class. Now we’re through WAHSET, I’m super excited! Showing, cattle and gaming all in THREE days! I’m so happy it’s over! We qualified for state in showmanship (which I absolutely HATE!), trail and working rancher. I placed 8^th in showmanship. Then had a clean go in trial and placed 22^nd, out of 23. I am not happy about that, HotRod apparently showed tension in his maneuvers. Then in working rancher I finally caught the dummy calf head! My seventh time into the arena in that last two years and I caught! Then HotRod bucked, for no apparent reason, it was actually quite funny, we placed 16^th.  My parents hauled the horse and I to Albany, Oregon to compete in an American Buckskin Registry (ABRA) Sectioned show. We had some good goes and some not so good ones. We came out with the ABRA Youth hi-point for the weekend, winning a bale bag on wheels. Yes, they make suit cases on wheels for hay bales!

Golf. Ha! That was a joke. I didn’t even go to districts because I didn’t feel I needed to because I wouldn’t qualify for state, I didn’t really enjoy being on the team anyways and felt it would a waste of my time to go. Those few weeks on the team just proved again why I don’t do team sports. Gah. I hate those prissy girly girls!

Life. Oh it’s great. People prove themselves all the time. Never proving me wrong though, always proving me right that they’re the same as everyone else. Liars. Cheaters. Stupid. Ignorant. Just plain pain in the butts for those of us who want to succeed. Just got to ignore them. Can’t get mad, just gotta get even.

My lamb! I’ll be getting her on the 29^th  at 9:30 am. I will post pictures. I’ll raise the lamb for FFA, take her to fair, show and sell her for market. I don’t know why I am torturing myself again with this project, but hey it’s some extra cash. I already know there will be many tears shed, even if I tell myself not to get attached and that she will gone by the end of August.

This past Friday we hosted a team taco bar for the WAHSET Team. At about 10 that night as my friend, Taylor, and her mom and sisters are leaving she asks if I want to go to Spokane with them. The parents let me go. We got there house and were asleep by 12:30, to be up at 5:50am the next day to do chores and load into her moms stretched Dodge truck and head down Highway 2 to Spokane! We dropped some saddles off at a leather shop then headed to the soccer fields for one of the little girls soccer games. They won both games!  It got pretty intense a few times! I ended up completely fried. We left there did some errands and finally got lunch. We went to the hotel. I was cruising faceboook when I saw that one our friend’s was in Spokane. He came and got us, he was with one of his friends. We were going to go to SkyHigh, an old warehouse that is filled with trampolines! Yeah that idea got smashed when they said you can’t jump if you’re under 18. We are all under 18. So we left there and ended up laser tagging. That was a blast! I fell down a ramp and UP a ramp, yes, up a ramp. I have some major talent! After laser tag we hit TacoBell and back to the hotel for swimming and hot-tubbing. Taylor and I were asleep by 12:30 again. Just to get up, watch half a soccer game, race back to their house so they could get ready and go to church. It was a seriously fun weekend!!

Now lets see how long it is until I blog again! (;

I'm back!

It’s been awhile. I kind of forgot I had a blog. Oopsies, sorry guys! It’s not that I’ve actually been busy, it’s that I just plain forgot. I'm still alive, just living and forgetting!

All I’ve been doing is attempting to ride, attempting to be a beast in weights which resulted in injury making it so I could not ride, homework, and trying to stay sane with the idiots I have come into contact with on a daily basis.

Lets go back to the attempting to ride. The weather warmed up. I had a lesson at the beginning of the month. Then it was freezing again. Then when riding HotRod hit a rock with his gimpy hoof, so I couldn’t ride till he got shoes on. Then I would ride HotRod when I could. Again the weather plays a really big role in this. BUT! We are making progress. His showmanship is so great right now! I might actually enjoy that class this season. My main goals with HotRod are to qualify for the state WAHSET meet and to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma to the American Buckskin Registry Association World Show. People say HotRod and I have a great potential to be world champions, now that’s just surreal to me right now. I must say, HotRod is a wonder horse. I don’t know what he won’t do for me! He’s carried flags at rodeos, shows, lets me throw a rope off him, drag logs, little kids can ride him, he goes English and western, loves trail, follows me everywhere, and loves his horse trailer! We have a show on March 5 in Moses Lake.

Now school. For the semester I got a 3.97 GPA! That’s the highest since I’ve been in high school. I had A’s from every teacher except my English teacher. Which I’m not too for sure why it was an A-. Oh well, I’ve got my GPA up from last year which is all that matters.

Weights. I have that first period. I love lifting. We do maxes to see how much we can lift. We do these once a month. Well my teacher decided he wanted us to max out on box-squat. It’s where the weight is on your shoulders and you sit down on the stool and stand back up. The first day I did 180 pounds. He kept wanting me to do more, but class was over. Then a couple days later he was getting the rest of the class to do their maxes. He said Wieldraayer can you do more, I said I doubt I can, he told me that he wanted to see. So we threw 195 pounds on, I sat and there was no way I was getting up. So I set it on the catchers. We put 190 on. I sat, stood up, but when I stepped away I noticed my back hurt, but didn’t think anything of it. Only the pain never went away. Told my mom and she didn’t think too much about it till I wanted to come home early the next day because of the pain. So she took me down to the PA in Royal. He said it’s most likely a lower lumbar strain, but wanted x-rays to be sure there was no compression fracture. This all started on a Wednesday, doctor Thursday and then Friday I had to get my x-rays, after I went to a farm auction with my dad. The x-ray showed everything was fine and dandy! Just no lifting for a week. So this week I haven’t been lifting. This whole thing has made riding very hard and painful.

Health. This class is waste of time. The teacher is LARGE. I don’t understand how she is qualified to teach a health class. She’s had just about every health problem you could think of. I know you’re not suppose to discriminate against weight, but in the case of a health class teacher there needs to be some charge taken. This teacher is supposed to teach us to be healthy, make healthy choices and learn healthy habits. I don’t see how having to look at and listen to a highly obese woman. She waddles, she doesn’t walk. Her arms are disgusting. I giggle when I actually look at her while she talks because her chin fat just jiggles! Now because of that I rarely look at her. I can’t even respect her as a health teacher because she has obviously not made healthy choices in her life. I also don’t think that after teaching children’s parents she should openly go on and on about how the parent never acted the way their child does in class. Well hello lady! It’s a whole new generation! I think some people just need to be forced to retire. It stupid how long they allow some individuals to teach. I mean seriously! There comes a point when someone just needs to be told no, you can not return this school you, we are forcing you to retire! I already know that the choices I make aren’t going to be based on anything this lady has told/taught me. What my parents have taught me is much much more useful this class. I don’t understand why it’s a graduations requirement.

More boring...

I have no idea what to blog about. So I asked my buddy Bart, he said to write about how awesome he is, well, Bart is. He races and he's one of my best friends.

 

Alright 'nough about him. Semester ends on Tuesday. That's dreaded. I'm passing with A's and B's. Although I won't know till the grades come out next week or the week after.

 

I did get to ride my horsey on the 17 and yesterday. I didn't have school on the 17. So dad hauled HotRod and I down to Othello to an indoor arena where my friend Gemma boards her horse. It ended up only being a 20 minute drive. I had a blast! HotRod and I hadn't rode in 2 months. He didn't buck or anything. He's just chubby, out of shape and form. Then yesterday mom took us down to Othello again to ride with Gemma. HotRod was great, just didn't like it when the neighbor started up his weed-eater. I think he was afriad that the guy was going to come into the arena and mistake him for a bush, I mean HotRod is pretty darn woolie! Mom and I are hoping to be able to get HotRod and I out and riding lots more since we have WAHSET in March. There is a schooling show though before that. First weekend in March is the first show outing. It'll be fun. We cleaned up last year at this show, hopefully we have the same good luck!! Pretty soon I'll put HotRod's big blanket on him to get him to shed out his woolies!

 

I really wish I had more interesting things to write/blog about, but I don't, so I apologize!

So, I take pictures?!

This semester I've been in a photography class at school. I have very much enjoyed that class! Probably my favorite out of my seven everyday. So here are some of my pictures...

I'll get more up at another time, my internet can't exactly handle the uploading. Hope you like them!

The first week back to school after the holiday is over. FINALLY! The semester is almost over, which means we're almost half way through the school year! Thank gosh! I'm just getting sick and tired of some of my teachers. Well, I've been sick and tired of the one since the first day of school. What this school needs a few new teachers to replace these ones that are going bonkers. I mean come on, the one has been here long enough to have taught my friends parents. Typical small town story, no one leaves and if they do, they just come back. I'm loosing track again. My math is slightly harder then I can do, but that's not terrible, there are worse things that could happen. I'll pass the Advanced Algebra and move on. Atleast we're moving onto a new chapter, which I should be able to handle since we did Parabola's in 8th grade. English is basically spoon fed to us, which I don't exactly love. That's only because I like to be able to do things on my own and work at my pace which is a bit faster then the others. Our last paper I turned in a day early and my teacher didn't understand why I wanted it in. Well I just wanted to be done. I had about four things to change, so I did them at home and turned it in the next morning. My photography class has been a learning experience. I love taking pictures, the editing is also pretty darn fun. I've put together some pretty neat surreal images, I'll try to get them up here. I'm not going to talk about biology because that's the teacher I'm sick of. Horticulture is slightly awful, only because no one shuts up and our teacher has never taught it before. It's a joke. Office User is great, I get my assignments done. Weights is alright, my max weights are increases which is good!

 

This school year really needs to be over. Not that it's been terrible, I'm just ready to move on to new and brighter things. I want those hot summer days where my sister and I ride our horses in our pajamas, then eat popsicles all day, then maybe ride again in the evening. I'm usually bareback on HotRod, I eventually end up barefoot too. That's what I miss right now. I think HotRod misses it too. Oh well, WAHSET will start soon! I'm excited for that, my horse and I work so much better together then we did last year and fingers crossed he doesn't come up with a hurt hoof at a meet again.

 

The FBLA winter conference is coming up. I'm doing public speaking. Aye. I'll be fine. I know I will. It's impromptu. Just tell them what they want to hear. Probably won't make it to State, but it's the experience that counts. I just hope that the parter speaking I have to do we do well. Only because the kid in partners with is way too excited for this and wants to go to state. The week of the conference will another one of those weeks where I go to 3 days of class. I'll also be attending the Ag Expo in Spokane. I entered a few photos in the photography contest. One of my entries earned an honorable mention! I was shocked! They sent me tickets, so dad, mom and I will make a day trip to the Expo! It shall be fun!

Hockey!

My first hockey game was on January 1, 2011! Woot Woot! Now that was fun! I was in row 3! Pretty darn close to the rink!
I finally got to hang out with my buddies Riley and Glenn! They are a crack up, not kidding. Just hope Glenn doesn't start tickling you, uh oh, I just about ended up in Riley's lap! Oh well, to say the least they're great guys, awesome friends and a blast to hang out with!
Back to hockey! Since the Wild got 6 points I get free pizza! Well actually everyone with a ticket does. Thank you PizzaHut!! I had never been to a hockey game, so it was pretty exciting for me. The way those guys skate is incredible and to think some are my age! Goodness gracious! What I don't understand is the fighting. I've watched quite a bit of sports and many different ones in my day and never have I seen so much fighting between the players! The refs don't even have to stop it! It's ridiculous! The crowd loves it, but my response to it all was "someone could have been seriously injured", that just made Riley laugh and Glenn wonder bout me. Oh well! The puffy animal things walking around scared the tar outa me. You see, I don't really like mascots or blow-up people things. They just kind of, well frighten me! Not even kidding you. So it was almost tourcher whenever the Wild's mascot, Walt, came near. Glenn thought it would be hilarious if he came over, I had to elbow him in the ribs a few times. Then at one point two of the blow-up animal creatures were by us, one on each aisle, oh boy, I was almost beside myself! It was horrible!


Now tomorrow I go back to school. That will be just LOADS of FUN! NOT! I already know I have to get to school early to talk to my math teacher. Oh well, I have to go, I'm almost half-way through the school year, I'm counting down till when WAHSET starts and school ends. Those are my favorite times! It's just too darn cold to be riding right now, but I'll occasionally take HotRod out and walk him like he's a dog, he's such a good horse. I couldn't ask for a better one. He's a fuzzy monster just like the other two horses. Slick is the fuzziest of them all. Hopefully the temperature will rise some so mom, dad and I can take my horses to Moses Lake to the Fairgrounds to ride in the indoor arena and so I can start lessons again up north of Ephrata. I really want to get back in the routine of riding lessons and horse shows!

The First Entry

Here goes nothin'! I guess I'll have a blog?! So now not only will I be hopelessly addicted to facebook but also to blogging. Ugh! Oh well, it'll be fun! My sister started a blog and well my mom said she didn't care if I had one too. So I put one together! The real reason, the movie "Julie & Julia" really got the idea in my head about having a blog. I've thought it could be fun. It's like a diary...that other people read! Ha! This is will probably end up being all about my horses, HotRod and Slick. But who cares right? It's my blog!

Well, that'll be it for this one!