Fasting is pretty easy.
Breaking our fast is what always gets us in trouble.
Deciding not to over eat, staying away from unhealthy activities or passing up on purchasing unnecessary things is initially fairly simple. Evidently, we have more strength than some others we know, because they get upset when they’re late for or miss dinner, and can’t seem to walk on by any opportunity to get something new.
Cowboys and cowgirls from throughout the nation like Western action in an extreme way.
Mounted on their best equine friends, a total of 103 Western athletes from 23 states, the nation’s width and depth, participated in the first Extreme Cowboy Race World Championship at Topeka.
He’s that one special horse.
The Keith Bartley family has owned lots of horses, but one stands out from all of the rest and will forever in their lives.
“Bugs is the best horse we’ve ever owned,” described Linda Bartley as she was helping her daughter get ready for college rodeo competition at Alva, Okla.
Economic turmoil and a ban on horse slaughter has resulted in a steadily growing number of unwanted horses with owners who are unable to properly care for them.
“The unwanted horse population has risen as the cost of purchasing a horse has dropped, but the cost of keeping a horse has stayed the same,” emphasized Dr. Alison M. LaCarrubba heads the equine ambulatory section at the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Veterinary Medicine.
The fast and slow of it is about the same as the long and short of it.
Depending on the situation, one is not always better than the other. We’ve thought that for considerable time, and of all places to be reminded of it was Sunday morning on the right hand aisle pew third row from the front.
Even the most optimistic about values of horses have stepped back on their views.
Talk about the declining prices for horses started more than four years ago, although there were signs within some breeds prior to that.
Horses certainly have their value on a ranch, there was no denying that, but when it came to putting money out to buy one, Fred Germann pinched it twice before letting lose, and had second thoughts at that.
We might be a bit dramatic in our evaluation, but Germann expressed his philosophies publicly about costs of horses to us more than once.
“The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”
It’s depressing to talk to someone who is always complaining? Certain folks seem to only have negative thoughts, and their conversation always centers on them.