My weekend was pretty cool. I dragged the boy to the 2008 Paint World Show in Fort Worth, which is always great to go to. He's never really understood horse showing, but he ended up having a good time.

We watched the Equitation class (which in case you don't know, is an english class that judges the ability of the rider, not the horse) which was really terrible. The way they have those stock horses move is nothing like a good english horse.. they're basically western horses with english saddles slapped on their backs. Their heads are too low, and all their gaits are way too slow.

Next was Pro Reining though, and that is always awesome. The boy loved watching that, because the horses so obviously love their jobs, and all the maneuvers are actually worth knowing. Here's some random pics of that class.







My friend Amy trained the filly that's being raffled off at the show. I helped train her for a week.


This sign was worth a picture.


For anyone who has never seen a truly amazing reining routine.. Stacy Westfall is the freestyle reining champ. She's incredible.


I had my first night at the new job last night. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I worked at Petsmart for a year in 2006, so I didn't have to be trained and just went right to working. Woohoo for bagging fish all night! Actually a pretty easy job to do. Call the fish dept at Petsmart and you might be lucky enough to hear me say "Petsmart where pets are family this is "Zippo" how can I help you?"

Oh yeah, look at my retarded dog.