2 dozen rides at the stock show

Saturday was the first day of the stock show so we went so Rosalie could ride. She and I went to the hall for the Saturday pancake breakfast, and then Evelyn took her to look for boots at a local bootmaker. Rosalie wants pointed toes and Evelyn wants her to have square toes. She didn’t get either. They came home and packed a lunch for us to take to the show. We drove in and Rosalie began to ride in the carnival area. We had bought her a wrist band allowing her to ride anything she wanted all day. She rode for 2 hours and then we went to the volunteer break room to eat lunch. We went back to the midway and she rode more until 4 when we came home. We did spend a bit of time looking for some boots in the exhibit building without success. We came home and Rosalie gave Evelyn a pedicure and E gave R a manicure. In the meantime we made a pizza from scratch using some of the pulled pork we had brought home. Pulled pork is not outstanding for a pizza mix even though we added fennel seed for flavor. I noticed that the ranch rodeo was tonight, so I asked R if she would like to go. She said yes and off we went. It was a cool evening after a very hot afternoon and we wore jackets. Various ranches sent teams of 5 cowboys to compete. We saw 4 events: steer roping, calf branding, a rescue race, and shovel racing. Then there was an event for the children. All kids were invited into the arena to chase calves with bandanas on their tails. R participate and had a good time. We left after the mutton busting event. I stayed up too late since daylight savings time began Sunday.