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Saturday, March 16, 2024

More Cowboy Days

Yuma, Arizona       High 70 Low 47

It got a lot cooler the last few days with lots of wind. We had a really dirty rain first thing Friday morning. Next week is supposed to be up into the 80's.

Our group at Cowboy Days had what we called  stage couch races. They used small wagons, which had to be loaded, then run around a course, then unload for the next race. The race didn't go exactly as planned, but the participants all seemed to have a good time.








One of the next events called for the contestant to ride a stick horse through a course, then to drink about 8 ounces of beer as quickly as possible. This was a timed event. The winner drank his beer without swallowing. He literally poured the beer down. I have never watch anyone do that before.










The last day, there was an inflatable bull riding contest. People were around the bull which was surrounded by a large inner tube. They tried to cause the rider to fall in the pool. This was timed also, and whoever stayed on the longest won.

The last event was a wet tee shirt contest. This time it was the women spraying water on the men. After the buckets of water were gone, the men were then judged by the audience.











 The participants said that they used cold water, which got them cold. A lot of them got in the hot tub after the contest. 

Cowboy Days was a lot of fun for everyone.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Cowboy Days

 Yuma, Arizona          High 80 Low 51

The weather has been very nice for the last while. It is starting to get warm. 

Fortunately Arizona doesn't use daylight savings time, unlike most of the rest of the country. This reminds me of a joke I once heard: An old Indian said that Daylight Savings Time was like cutting off one end of a blanket and then sewing it onto the other end to make it longer. Yes, it makes about as much sense. 

We had Cowboy Days in our Park. We were supposed to dress up like Cowboys and did different events. It lasted for two afternoons and it was a lot of fun. 

We started out with a roping demonstration by a woman that was an Arizona champion bull roper. Her son also was a champion. 




She then let some of the audience try their hand at lassoing.




The next event was one that I got "volunteered" for. It was called a cow pie eating contest. It was actually chocolate pudding in a large pie plate in the shape of a cow pie. We then had to eat it without using our hands. The first one finished was the winner.







I was next to the winner.


We all had lots of chocolate on our faces. It was still fun. 

There are so many pictures that I will have to do another post.

Thanks for visiting.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Quilts And Quilt Shows

 Yuma, Arizona            High 78 Low 53

It is still nice weather.

The first of two quilts Were made with the same pattern. The first one we made with a kit and then The second  with scrappy material using a different panel. They sure look different.


The next one is one we used some scrappy pieces that came from somewhere.


Then we had two different quilts shows at two of the close by Parks. They were a day apart. Neither are what we would call large shows, but they did have some very nice quilts.











These two show how much difference the colors of material make the same pattern look.










We had never seen a quilted chair cover before.


We enjoyed both quilt shows.

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