In June I went to Murfreesboro, Tennessee to meet up with two of my cousins that I haven’t seen in a long time. Paul is from Birmingham, Alabama and Lia is from Long Island, New York. Lia is the Cowgirl and I’m sure she’s going to kick my ass for writing this about her. She doesn’t like any attention.
The reason for our get together was to have fun and watch Lia compete in a sport called penning. All I can tell you about penning is it has to do with serious horse riders on specially trained horses whose job it is to let a bunch of cows know who is the boss of them!
The other thing I learned was how to wait around for your turn to compete. Lia would compete in the morning and then go back out hours later maybe even 2 am. to do it again. I personally think this is the hard part of penning. Even the cows had someone to let them know that they were up next. After waiting around for hours, Lia’s program would last about 3-8 min. Now I want you to know that I’m not complaining, I think everyone needs to learn how to stop and smell the roses. Well in this case with all the cows and horses it’s not the roses we were smelling.
All kidding aside, we had a great weekend together and I now know what penning is. We are proud of Lia for all the world class ribbons that she won that weekend.
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| A good meal before you compete is very important |
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| And let us not forget the pre-game pep talk. |
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| I shot because this women always said her husband was a horse’s ass and I think this shot proves it. |
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| When Lia goes to these competitions, she knows a lot of the other riders so I’ve included some shots of them as well. |
