Zombies.
A peaceful night's sleep last night, as anyone would expect, sleeping only a few hundred yards from a cemetery. Fortunately, there are two RVs between me and the graveyard, so if any zombies are walking around at night, they will get to them first and give me a chance to get away. From what I've seen in the movies, zombies move rather slowly, so I feel like even in my advanced years, I can outrun your average zombie, but I probably can't keep it up for very long.
Even when I was a little kid watching horror movies at the Royal theater in Simpsonville, South Carolina, my best friend George and I would walk the mile or so from the theater back home, and scary movies like "The Mummy." Didn't scare us because the mummy was so slow that even 11-year-olds like George and me could outrun him.
I didn't see "The Blob" as much of a problem either, since it was a very slow-moving threat, and I felt like I could always get away from it. Although for several days after watching that movie, I did stuff a towel under my bedroom door so the blob couldn't slither between the door and the floor while I was asleep.
But things like that don't scare me anymore. I've learned there are far worse things that are more frightening than movie monsters. Things that have unlimited power and can and do truly destroy people's lives every day.... The IRS comes to mind.
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Since even elementary school-aged children can compete in team roping, you might wonder how kids practice.... And this is one of the ways.
Roping the calf's back leg is the hardest part, so having someone pull the "calf" behind a quad makes the back leg move back and forth just like a real calf, and gives the "healer", that's the person roping the back leg, plenty of practice without annoying a live calf.
Winning enough team roping championships can help secure sponsorship from businesses. And by all the sponsorships on this truck, he or she must do a lot of winning.
On the left, you can see a few of the pens the cowboys rent to keep their horses in during multi-day contests. In the background, you can see some tents; the big tent is a church, and the smaller tents are a blacksmith and an equine veterinarian.
With so many of the contestants driving around and around looking for a place to park, I knew it was hopeless for me.
The venue was so large that to get to various places, the cowboys were either riding their horses, some kind of scooter, or this deadly-looking contraption..... And if getting on this whatchamacallit wasn't dangerous enough, look carefully, and you can see he's also talking on the phone !!!