The best laid plans ...

    So today was suppose to be an awsome day.  I was going to rope at Cavalcade and do great.  Then I was suppose to come home and post a great blog post that included two things I had planned.  Well,  That isn't how the day went at all.  
    First, I messed up my run at Cavalcade.  I was angry and mad and upset too.  Things just didn't go well.  Not only that but before I ran I went to the bathroom and left Mom along with Many other people to witness a horse break it's leg while stopping after a high speed run.  It was awful.  That horse gave it's all and for what?  This is one of the reasons Mom doesn't like to go to the rodeos with me and Dad.  I don't know if anyone notices but she only goes when it is a rodeo of importance.  Finals, Districts, State, Regionals, Cavalcade... You get the picture.  It seems to upset Mom more because being in her line of work she knows the out come before most just because she has to think on  her toes and sees injured animals more in her life.  Anyway, I ran my calf only three runs after that and pretty much all of us were over doing it on not pushing our horses after what had just happened and all of us pretty much blew our runs.  By this point in the day I was upset, hot, mad at myself and ready to throw in the towel on the day but I couldn't.  There was more that had happened before all this that I had to deal with when I got home.  
    You see, we had a big surprize that was coming today.  And if all went well I would have just come in the house and found it here and posted about it and it would have been so great.  Wellll, that didn't work that way either.  And it was partly my fault so by this point in the day I was feeling like I ruined everyones day all the way around.  At one point Mom got me to joking and she said not to worry I hadn't ruined the whole day there was a good 5 hours left yet to go ... That was before we walked in to the house when we got home. I guess I better back up and fill everyone in.  
    You see while I was at Cavalcade messing up my run Ms. Karen was picking up something very special ... Take a look at this....

    I was suppose to tell you that I am please to introduce Elliot.  He is the new Shetland Ram.   Well, I am please to introduce him just not at all pleased with the whole story of him getting here.  First I was suppose to put up my Dog, Buddy, because he is a biter.  Well, I forgot and he decided he didn't want anyone in the house. Ram or no Ram.  Then he decided he didn't want the ram in the inside pen because it was too loud.  All in all a burrito lured Buddy into my room so Ms. Karen could put up the doggie gate and keep him under wraps.  To bad at this point Elliot didn't like the pen himself and tried ramming it a bit.  Ms. Karen swears all was calm when she left.... I have never had a reason not to trust Ms. Karen but somehow today I Just don't know ... (that is a joke ... I still trust her)  
    So to recap -  while I was messing up my run at Cavalcade,  Ms. Karen was having fits at the farm with the dog and the Ram, in part to my doings.  The worst is yet to come.... I know most of  you think Mom is pretty cool and easy going ...
    Okay, Well today Mom was at her best.  NOT ... When we got home she had to go to the bathroom so I unloaded my horse and she headed to the house.  Next thing I hear is A yell and Dad saying "Son Get to your Mom".  I get to the door to see Mom doing her Pee Pee dance while face to face with Elliot that is loose in the her house.... Okay I know ya'll are laughing and that is fine but trust me when I day She was not ... There was trash all over the front room, piles of Poop and pee in both the kitchen and the front room and one very upset Ram at a stand off with Mom doing her Pee pee dance while holding a can of pepsi with her teeth so she could block the door and he couldn't escape. 
    I managed to catch him as Mom blocked the front door and then she went to the restroom.  She just came out shaking her head and asked where is he??? We then tried to put him in the Shetland pen.  He is only 6 months old and shouldn't be ready to breed....  In sheep talk that doesn't mean he won't try ... Trust me on this.  After he ran poor Momma Shetland half to death we put him in the man pen.... Check him out,  he is huge for his age... or at least we think so...

   Remember Chief is a whole year older then him and a Southdown Babydoll but still Shetlands are suppose to be a smaller breed of sheep.  
    With all that said and our plans laid so well, Mom had cooked up a small give away in anticipation of all the great that would be wrapped up into one day.  It is something that represents Oklahoma, Home to the world's largest Ameteur Rodeo with a sent of the west... Rawhide... Made right here in Oklahoma by the Keepsake Candle Company. 

    So now instead of just leaving a comment to be in the drawing, you have to tell us of a time your best laid plan went a-rye ... In true Western tradition the Drawing will be held Tuesday at high Noon.   Lol