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Mark has really been on a roping kick and in the past few weeks, he started showing Jayden the basics of handling a rope and swinging. She has really picked it up fast. They rope the dummy at night. Today Mark took Jayden to a youth 4-H roping clinic in Winterset. They spent the morning learning about roping basics, roping off the horse on a dummy. It was good for Jayden and Mark and both learned some new things.
During the day I stayed home with, Jake, Luke, and Rylie. It was a nice day so they spent the entire day outside. Rylie got on a roll picking up little pine cones in the yard. He filled several little wagons full and they hauled them to the burn pile. Luke really liked being part of everything the big boys did. It was great for me as I got a lot done, including washing all my windows.
In the evening, we loaded the horses back up for a Dayton Wranglers fun show. We took Rylie home and picked up cousin Abby to babysit the boys. Mark decided to try the fun show too and brought his horse Traveler. We also had Dakota and Jessie. Traveler and Jessie did not behave well at all together. They worry about each other and whinny, get nervous and don’t stand still. It made for a very challenging night. Jayden started out in the walk trot and did great. When the horses had to stand in line for the judge, Jessie was not cooperating. From then on, Jayden just rode her pony Dakota. I rode Jessie the rest of the night and she was not behaving for me very well either. The more I ride this horse, the more I realize, she is NOT a kids horse. Mark had a time with Traveler too as he wanted to be right by Jessie’s side. Mark rode his horse in most all of the classes. It was fun to see him ride in barrels and poles, something he swore he would never ever do. In the years I ran barrels and poles, he would never. He and I both ran barrels, not pushing our horses very fast, we both had a time of 26, as close to a tie as you can get. They also had an event where you partner and run around one barrel and we were a team. That was kind of fun, I just enjoyed being able to run it with Mark. I wish we had our video camera!

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