So as I promised this post will have pictures of the Ranch Rodeo, but before that I have to tell you about our “Pet”. In a previous post in June I mentioned our friend who lives in the driver’s side mirror of my car. Butters is what Munchkin named him. He’s a friend of an eight-legged variety. Obviously, he’s been there a while if I first posted about him in June. Almost every morning he makes a web from the mirror to the car window. Sometimes there are small mosquitoes that became his morning meal.

Well….most mornings I take Munchkin to school and Butters is usually hanging out on his web or behind the mirror doing whatever it is that spiders do when they are in their homes. We get halfway to school and he crawls out and begins taking down his web. Now, I’ve never seen a spider take down their web. This spider will climb up the main lines and actually disconnect the interconnecting lines and roll them into a ball that he carries behind the mirror. He will do this no matter if I’m going 20 mph or 45 mph. I tell you he’s either crazy or a daredevil. Since he’s been living there so long and he’s now a small part of our family, I have started taking the web down if I plan on going outside the neighborhood where I would drive faster. I don’t want him falling off. He’s interesting and frankly, Munchkin likes him. I do, too. For a while there in August, I didn’t see him very often, but now that it’s getting cooler he comes out almost every day.

So here’s what he looks like.

And this is him actually taking down some of his web.

Now that I’ve given some of you the heebie jeebies, let’s move on to the Chisholm Trail Ranch Rodeo pictures. If you haven’t gone, I do suggest you go because it is a good time. And El Patron actually served wine and margaritas! I stuck with water, but they were tempting.

Mugging: Contestants wrestle a cow to the ground and tie three legs together to stay bound for 6 seconds.

Roping is a big part of every event.

The horses know their jobs.

Wild cow milking: The cowboys must catch a wild cow and milk it into a beer bottle.

The final event was roping a cow and loading it into a trailer. This was funny because after the cow was in the trailer, the cowboys had to get into the truck (2 in the bed and 2 in the cab). There was honking, and one team even squeezed all 4 teammates into the cab.

Like I said, it was fun and if you have a chance to go to a ranch rodeo, I highly recommend it.