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Anybody else wanna stick their hand in my wallet and pull out whatever they darn well please? Pretty much seems how things go nowadays anyway.

Gas prices, grain prices, hay prices, food prices, land prices. Everything that has anything to do with the horse business is through the roof. I don’t make my living off the horse business but I sure enough am getting whacked every step of the way this year. Anybody that can say they are making a living off the horse business this year has really got to be at the top of their game way I see it.

I feel bad when I quote prices for horse transports because of what we have to charge. Almost seems like I’m making mistakes in calculating when I first see the price myself. Feel even worse when I realize I’m making Chinese prison labor wages after paying for fuel. But this year every little bit helps.

Sure don’t see us doing much showing this year. Just too many uncertainties that we’ll have to be prepared for if things get any worse. But there’s a saying I picked up somewhere that kinda fits here. “Are you gonna cowboy up or just lay there and bleed?”

Well there’s a show grounds about 15 miles from us. Can get there mostly by the back roads. Who needs ethanol? I got the best grain to fuel refinery known to man. We’ll be saddled up and leave a little after sun gets up. Get there in plenty of time and not have to rush. Did it that way 30 years ago for my first show and I suppose history repeats itself.

They don’t do any reining there but they got a pretty good trail class that’d be interesting. Maybe enter a pleasure class and scare all the slow horses. And they draw some good hands there so the practice arena will be a good place to have a little fun and do a little showin and watchin.

Actually kinda lookin forward to it. Maybe sometimes things get too complicated. Maybe this here will put some things back in perspective.