Left for Little rock on Thursday to do the ProviderPals thing at the Maplevale Middle School. Long layovers made for a long day coming and going. The weather was not all that great, they had rains and flooding Thursday morning. Anyway, these were some of the nicest kids to work with, I hope they learned something from me, I always learn something from them. My prize winning question for the day: Do you ride horses? (yes), do you shoot guns? (yes) Do you ride around on your horse and shoot people like they do in the movies? (when I got my composure back, NO, do you think movies are real?) He said yes. Second place prize goes to a girl who must have been blonde in another life: As we are looking at pictures of the ranch that have the title "Life in the Bull Mountains, Musselshell Montana" under each picture, "Where did you say you are from?", this was almost at the end of a half hour class. Then she said, "I don't believe this stuff you are telling us, it sounds too much like something you would read in a book or something." And the same girl gets the third place ribbon. I had one of the teachers daughters helping me, she is blonde looks something like MCG. There were pictures of MCG in the slide show. The girl asked, "Is that your daughter up there with you?" Before I could answer, one of the other kids said, "that is Mrs. Greens daughter you idiot." The first girl then says to me "Why are you married to Mrs. Green and you live in Montana? Told you I didn't believe this stuff." I had a fun day, the highlight for the kids is trying to rope the dummy calf and having their picture taken with chaps, bandana, long sleeve shirts and a cowboy hat. Wish I could have gone around and looked at more of the state, very friendly people, everything is green and lush.
Learnning how to throw a rope, getting the overhead twirl down is always the hardest
Even the girls try, had a new one this year, she refused to try because those ropes had germs on them. She didn't know that they probably had blood, scours, horse crap, finger hide and other assorted ranch things
Getting dressed up like a "cowboy", the get to have a polariod picture to take home with them some of them autographed :wink:
Everybody wants to be a cowboy. Got this question too, How come it is not "horseboy" instead of cowboy?
The Arkansas river running into Little Rock
Flying over Memphis, wish the sun would have shown
Good old Minnesota crop land
