BabaYaga

I grabbed a $2 bill off a goats tail at the Coleman Rodeo when I was 4-5yrs old. That the extent of my time "in the dirt". My cousins were all ropers and barrel riders Me at the rodeo growing up

“Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whorehouse carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.”

Gazirra?

U ded....

Do you mean the Barkley? That is WILD. Only 25 people have ever FINISHED the damn thing. 100 miles through Appalachia, and it changes year to year. Just brutal.

If you like baseball, you have to check out "The battered bastards of baseball". It's phenomenal. It's about Kurt Russell's father - Bing Russell who started an independent A-league team of players nobody else wanted. The original bad news bears: Portland Mavericks Equally good baseball doc is "The King of Second Chances". If you don't get misty-eyed at the end, I don't know what to tell you. It's where Daryl Strawberry went after his drug charges and where he turned his life around before coming back to the bigs. If you like small town Texas football, check out "Texas 6". About 6 man football in Strawn, TX.

I'm not saying I know who did it, but there will be signs.....

For being so big/fast, damn they are fragile. My aunt used to board and train rodeo horses and breeding studs. Their prize stallion just up and died on them (colic, I think?). That doesn't count the myriad of other crap that happens day to day. Crushed her business. Then she got into horse rehab and massages to help relieve the same muscle issues athletes have. I wrote my acceptance letter on showing Arabian stallions. I'm just a kid, dressed up in my stupid little riding tux with white gloves and tails, and there is a mare in heat. All the riders congregate at the gate prior to them opening the arena, and my boy is losing his shit. I'm talking rearing up on his back legs. Horse wang flopping around like an elephants nose. We used a double-bridle, with a snaffle bit and a fixed bit to help with the arching of the head/neck. Were in this narrow procession lined with horse stalls and I think I'm done. I fall off, I'm getting stepped on or worse and this guy is going to go full rodeo. I'm maybe 13-14? So I crank his head to one side - hard, and whip him into a tight circle. His head is cranked so far over we're looking at each other in the eye. They open the gate and he's bucking and losing his shit. I didn't even place, but I didn't die either..... Still undefeated.

Get that checkbook out. Horses themselves are not expensive - it's the boarding, feed, tack, and training that adds up. Then vet bills are pricey because they have to do on-site visits, farrier work, etc. I rode from 8 to 16 down near Slaughter Lane. Arabians and Quarter horses and my family on the dads side all raised quarter horses (and still do). Cousin went to college on a rodeo scholarship and still competes. If they are requiring you to pay this boarding fee for your own horse AND provide all your own tack/feed, that's expensive. Are you basically renting one of their horses? Where I rode, I got into showing horses and showed theirs, along with their tack, etc. That was much more affordable. Helped offset the session costs with stall work, exercising horses, and later helping train the younger riders like your daughter.

Mom got rear ended by some out of town dip shit in a sports car in Austin. I forget the exit, but from the drivers perspective you exit, go up a slight incline and then it dips back down before you come to a light. He was flying off the highway and cars were backed up at the light, just out of visual line of sight of exiting cars. He crested the hill at full speed and wasn't paying attention and slammed into the back of her car. Car was totaled and her knee was done. She's recovered, but the way she described it was awful. At a complete standstill and the car is barreling down on you.

MAMA!!!

Lower level of 35 in Austin near 38th 1/2 will pucker you up quite nicely. The onramp is....spicy.....vertical wall to your right, speeding traffic on the left, and a short ass merge lane.

Yep. This is one of many incremental price hikes. Corporations never absorb cost increases - it's passed on to the consumer

This thread makes me want to dust off my old sticks, hop of my sweeeeet Mongoose BMX bike, and head over to Hancock to get in a few rounds.

I'm out

Cold plunges Getting up at 430am Crushing life and Crypto

I know, was being sarcastic about how shallow it is, it's one atmosphere and divers could easily take care of this vs bringing in some expensive submersible or even rednecks with magnets and a rope could just as easily accomplish.

Because the lake is hundreds of feet deep and there's no way divers could operate at those depths. I'm also sure outsourcing a submersible is the most cost effective method to achieve this as well. Anyone have the number of those rednecks that magnet fish on social media....

Checks out

Many cars have governors on them which caps their top speeds long before the car can achieve them. There is also an equally large aftermarket of ways to remove them. There's also the mechanical argument - by allowing the gears to go to higher speeds, it puts less strain on the engine at lower speeds. Ie., the efficiency of the larger gears

Well damn, just when you think there's a cool chick with earth moving toys! Hopes...dashed.....