http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:25:00 -0500 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:25:00 -0500 Well, How is everyone?  Once agian I am sorry that I haven't put anything up in a long time.  So I will go through everything that has been going on with me very fsat! So,  first thing is that I did move.  I LOVE the new house.  It is so big and we have an 8 stall horse barn now!  I will tell you more about the house another time. The next thing is we got a horse.  He is a 4 month old colt named Khahoots.  I know that that isn't really spelled correctly but we had to keep the Kh in his name because is "Grandpa" was a famous stud and a world champion named Khemosabi.  I am going to try to show him in WSCA halter shows next year.  He is 3/4 Arabian and 1/4 Saddlebred. The other thing is that the fair was a BLAST!  It was so much fun.  It wen't really well.  I got last in all my classes but I don't really know if that was right.  I don't really know if the judge was the best.  I know that I wasn't the best out there but I don't think that I should have gotten last in all my classes.  In halter I knew that I would do bad so that wasn't so bad.  But I think that my bad performance in Halter left a bad impression on the judge.  The next class was Western Pleasure,  that was my favorite.  It went so well, I could really feel XL under me and we were very focused on our performance and I am telling you we had it together.  But when it was all over the judge had us all line up and he went from person to person tell them what the mistakes were like head being to high and trot to fast and that kinda stuff but when he got to me he didn't say anything!  But the worst one was Western Horsemanship,  we were the only team that did a flying lead change and we still got last.  The other thing that happend was that I was doing barrels and XL did good around the first barrel but she always gets jumpy around the second barrel,  so thats what happend at the fair she got all jumpy at the second barrel and the judge was sitting in the arena in a lawn chair!  Well,  as we were going around the second barrel she went nuts and backed up on the judge the judge jumped out of the chair just in time too because she steped on the chair and put a big hole in it.  I thought it was really funny.  The thing is I don't know why the judge was sitting there. The last thing is that I got a call from a camp in northern Minnesota asking me if I would be willing to come to the camp and be a counselor.  I was really excited because my best friend Andy is going to be there to.  You may know Andy as 00stormspotter.  So, I will tell you how that goes when I get back.  I am going to leave to day to go to camp so I am going to fix all my mistakesin this post latter.  Ok I will talk to y'all latter!  CowboyKing http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/722194/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:25:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/722194/ Well, how has everyone been doing?  It is really bad that I haven't posted anything in a long time.  I thought I would just through an update in here real fast. First is that I may be moving!  There is a place 20 minutes north of wear I live now that is for rent.  The house is SO nice.  It is 3,000sq ft with an in ground pool and an 8 stall horse barn with 40 acers!  I am so excited!  We will be renting our house out to a ministry that helps people that are getting over an addiction.  So we have renters for our house but now we are waiting to know if the house we want is still open.  They will be calling with the answer any second now.  I haven't been able to do anything today because I just want a yes or no on the house.  We know the people that own the house and are very good friends with them so it will be nice to have good christian land lords!  I just can't stop thinking about it!  I try to get my mind on other things but I can't!  The house is just so nice!  If it all works out I will post some pics on here. The other thing is that the fair is only a month away.  I think we will do good in western pleasure and western horsemanship but I don't know about the halter class.  OH! thats another  thing about the house.  It is only a mile from wear XL lives now!  Preacher said that if we move there he will let me keep XL with us!  So... thats all the news about the horses I have right now. I don't know if there is anything else to tell you all.  I have to go hang out my close on the line so I will talk to you latter.  Leave a comment! CowboyKing     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/701443/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:55:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/701443/ Calling ALL Homeschoolers! A Homeschooling Meme just for us! Here are the rules: Answer all 10 questions! Then, Tag 3 or more other homeschoolers! HERE WE GO: 1) How long have you been homeschooled? Since I was born....I am always learning..... 2) What grade are you in? 10th 3) What is your favorite subject(s) in your homeschool?  I like Math but I am not that good at it.  I like Russian, I like....I don't know...all of them I guess.  OH!!!!!  Mom counts the horses as part of school!  4) What is your least favorite subject(s) in your homeschool? I really don't know because they all have their ups and downs. 5) What is a current/previous homeschooling challenge you've faced? I think that would be picking out my school for next year at Meche. 6) What are you looking forward to over the coming year? THE FAIR AND THE HORSES AND MAYBE BEING A COUNSELOR AT A CAMP!!!!! 7) Name three things you like doing in the summer with your family. I don't really know.  We don't really go anywhere as a family. 8) What other activities do you enjoy, such as sports, hobbies, etc.? Reading, riding, ice skating, running, but most of all the horses! 9) Are you taking a foreign language? Are you going to in the future? Which one? Russian.  I really like it.  I want to do French next year. 10) Where do you homeschool? (Kitchen table, livingroom, etc.) Everywhere! In my room, at the computer, on the floor, in the kitchen, outside, in the car, in the basement, in the living room, on the couch. I tag......everyone who reads this and is homeschooled!!!!!! Thanks for reading!!! CowboyKing     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/681301/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:08:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/681301/ Well, it is that time of year again.  Time for the Kentucky Derby!  Though it is still about 1 month away it is fast approaching!  I must first say that their is perhaps a better sport that we as christians could get into.  Their is just so much gamboling and beting that goes into that sport and if you are a born agian christian then you should take to heart the words of 1 Timothy 6:10  "For the love of Money is the root of all evil: which while some covoted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced  themselves through with maney sarrows.  Last years race was very exciting with Big Brown, eight bells and the others.  I think that there will be a great line up of horses this year because their doesn't seem to be any that are just dominating the sport.  Here are a few of the horses that should be makeing it to the Kentucky Derby. Quality Road has done very well this year winning 3 out of 4 starts.  With his lattest win, The Florida Derby, under his belt (or should I say cinch?) he is considered in the top three favorites for the Kentucky Derby.  However, their is a quarter crack on one of his back hooves.  "It would be premiture to say that the horse wouldn't be able to make the derby." So says Quality Road's trainer Jimmy Jerkens.  If you want to read the story wirten by a professional go to www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30074830. I Want Revinge,  wow what a horse!  After winning the Wood Mamorial after a very poor start the questian is could he do it at the Kentucky Derby?.  I Want Revinge was the last horse out of the gates and stayed behind the other seven horses competing in the race untill the eighth pole when he found a clear path and took it, winning the race.  That is the second straight stakes win for him!  He is defiantly a favorite for the Derby!  More info can be found at www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30047274. Pioneer of the Nile is another horse to watch out for in the Derby.  After takeing the lead on the backstrech at Sante Aneta Park then loseing it people were beginning to wonder if he was even going to be able to win the race.  But in the strech he was able to take back the lead and win the race by one length!  So don't over look Pioneer of the Nile!  The fact that Bob Baffert ,a 3 time Kentucky Derby winner, is Pioneer of the Nile's trainer could give him a edge in the race.  If you want to know more about Pioneer of the Nile go to www.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2008987219_horse05.html. There are a few other horses to keep an eye on.  Such as Freezen Fire, Chocolate Candy and Musket Man.  The ones the I told you about are the top three favorites for the race so far.  Like that means anything. After all it is a horse race!  But it is 10:10pm on the night of the April 11th and I have to sing for church tomorrow!  I will post another entry about "The most exciting 2 minutes in sports" as it draws closer.  Thank you for reading!  Please leave a comment even if you don't like horse raceing! CowboyKing P.S.  I am posting this now without proof reading it because I am to tired to care.  I will do it after church tomorrow.  Please forgive any mistakes.       http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/677960/ Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:10:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/677960/ I should first start by saying that I am sorry it has taken me so long to post a new entry.  I am sorry Andy that I didn't get these pics up sooner.  Before I tell you about these pics I just wanted to let all my friends who jump there horses know that I jumped my horse for the first time ever!!!!!!!!!!!!  I did it with Excel!!!!!!!  It was all very fun.  I think the only way to explane it would be to say that the horse can jump I can't.  She would do an amazing jump but I would bounce right out of the saddle then come smashing down once she landed.  I am going to put a entry up here pretty soon to tell you all how good of a horse she is.  Like how she supposedly knows how to bow and jump and barrel race and dressage ect... Now about these pictures.  00stormspotter and I went to a youth conferance in Fargo North Dakota last month.  We had so much fun!!!!!!!  There was like 3 hourse of preaching every day and 4 on Sunday!!!!!  We stayed at someones house for free and they fed us and took us where we needed to go.  It was like haveing a staff working for you.  The most exciting part of the trip was when we stayed up for like 40 hours or something like that.  We got up at 7:00am on Sunday and we or I didn't go to bed till 9:00pm on Monday.  Andy went to bed at 6:00pm on Monday evening!!!!!!!!  We were going to bed at 3 but we got into some really good conversations and when we looked at the time it was like 5:15am so we thought why not just stay up all night!!!!!  We were SSSOOOO tired on Monday!!!!!!  I was trying to stay awake during the preaching but it was like I had no control over it.  I was counting in the fact that our host was going to fix coffee with our breakfast.  But she didn't!!!!!!!!!!!  So I thought I would get some mountian Dew when we got to the church.  They didn't have any.  They had some other coke but it didn't do any good.  So here are some pics of our trip. This is us at about....oohhh....like 7am on Monday. We went bowling when we were over there.  I think someone ran there car into this piller.  My guess is that they were drunk.  Doesn't it look like he is the one who punched it!!!!!! After it was all said and done we were zonked!!!!!!!!!!  I should tell you that I am the person that took this pic.  I held the camra away from me and took it. Thank you for reading!!!!!!!!!!  Please leave a comment.  I have 97 of them maybe you could be number 100!!!!  Talk to you latter. CowboyKing http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/673501/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:07:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/673501/ War of the Ranches   Chapter 1        The weather was cool in Guthrie, Texas in September of 1885.  The sun was just beginning to set when the cowboys of the Bar K Ranch got back to their bunkhouse.  It had been a long day for the cowboys that worked for Mr. Shane, the owner of the Bar K.  They had been in the saddle all day looking for strays that had escaped the night before.  The reason for their escaping was the owner of the neighboring ranch; Mr. Black, had ordered his boys to cut the fences of the Bar K’s grazing pastures.  This was just another dirty trick in a long line of dirty tricks that had occured since Mr. Shane had moved to the area the year before to try his hand in ranching.       The reason for the quarrelling between the two ranches is that before Mr. Shane started his ranch, Mr. Black had all the range land he wanted.  Now that the Bar K was there, he couldn’t let his herds graze wherever he wanted them to.  He was restricted to just a specific area, and the Bar K had the best grass in probably all of Texas.  This isn’t to say that Mr. Black’s Circle B Ranch didn’t have good grazing land; it just didn’t have grass quite the quality of the Bar K.      The logic behind Mr. Black’s thinking was simple.  I am one of the first ranchers in this part of the country. I stared my ranch before Mr. Shane was even walking, I have been using that range land for twenty years and how dare he waltz in here and start using it for himself.  The logic behind Mr. Shane’s thinking was; there is enough Texas for both of us.      As the cowboys of the Bar K were unsaddling there horses, Mr. Shane walked into the barn and said “saddle those horses back up boys. We’re going to pay Mr. Black a visit.” After the grumbling and retaking was over, they were headed to the Circle B at full speed.  As they rained up in front of Mr. Black’s house the cowboy’s of  the Circle B came shuffling out of there bunkhouse, guns ready.  Mr. Shane put his hand up and said      “We don’t want gun play.  I just want to talk to your boss.”      The foreman of the Circle B looked up at Mr. Shane (who had not bothered to dismount) and said, “He doesn’t have time to talk to trespassers like you.”      “That is government range land Bob and you know it.  Now let me speak with Mr. Black,” Mr. Shane replied.       “He isn’t here,” said Bob.        Mr. Shane eyed him suspiciously for a second then said, “Do you expect me to believe you?” said Mr. Shane       “You have my word Mr. Shane He went to Amarillo on business,”  replayed Bob      “When will he be back?” said Mr. Shane.      “I don’t know.  When he gets done I reckon,” replied Bob       “Well then Bob I will tell you if I find one fence that is cut or one watering tank with holes shot in it, I am coming back here and you will wish you had left me alone.”  After saying that he wheeled his horse around and took off back to his ranch with his men following close behind him. I have started writeing a "book" for school.  I finished the first chapter today.  I am up for constructive criticism so tell me what you think.  Thanks for reading Please leave a comment. CowboyKing   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/659696/ Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:18:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/659696/ So, how is every one?  I have been doing good.  Busy but good. Before I say anything else I want to know who said I looked like a Redneck?  I am not offended buy that at all I just want everyone to know I am not a Redneck.   I think the only really exciting thing to tell you all is that I went riding on Friday.  It was a lot of fun.  The only thing is that Copenhagen was acting like he had never been ridden in his life.  It was like in the upper 30s on Friday, so the horses were just really acting up.  Anyway, he was just being a pain in the butt.   We went for a rid down the road.......well we didn't "ride," we turnd in circles as we went.   When a horse is acting up you are supposed to turn them in tite circles.  We would be going really good then he would stop, throw his head up, and start wallking backwards, and I would turn him and slap him with the riens.  I did make him go all the way though.  After I was done with Copenhagen, Hannah, our friend, and myself had to put out a round bail for the horses, an 800 Ib round bail might I add.  It took us an hour and half to get it out to the pasture.  After we got it out there the girls went back into the house, and I went to the barn and got Excel out.  I didn't get to ride her for very long.  My mom showed up and then her and Miss Sue had to go visit a friend that has breast cancer.  I am not allowed to ride if my mom or Miss Sue isn't there.  Its just a mom thing you know.  After they left I took Excel back to the barn and groomed her for a little bit.  Then I fixed a saddle and cleaned the barn a little.  So, all in all it was great.  After I was done with all the riding, I went back to the house and had a cup of coffee and listened to Willy Nelson and George Strait with Preacher.  I love talk to him. He is so funny.  We were talking about what he should do if he won the lottery.  We decided that he should start a ranch in Wyoming and build a big house for him and his family, and then he would build a bunk house and a barn.  So, he would have a really big cattle operation, and I would ride the range looking for strays.  He said there would probably be a lot of them because he wouldn't be the best ranch manager because he would be sitting on the veranda eating steak that the Mexican cook he is going to hire cooked for for him.  So, thats what is new with me.  I am leaving for Fargo on Friday for a youth conference.  I think its going to be a lot of fun.  I will post something about it when I get back.  Thanks for reading.  Please leave a comment. CowboyKing    http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/656271/ Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:22:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/656271/ Well, I know how to put pictures on here.  I thought I would put some of Copenhagen up today.  I like to take a lot of picturse so I will be posting a lot of them.  Here is the first one. This one was taken a week or two ago.  Yes I know he is fat.  I will put more on here as soon as I know how to put two up at one time.  Thanks for reading.  Please leave a comment. CowboyKing http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/654528/ Wed, 4 Feb 2009 14:23:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/654528/ Hello everyone!!!!!!! How are you all doing? I am doing good. I have been SO busy that I can hardly stand it. Well, its not that bad as a matter of fact I like being busy. Well, just to give you an idea of how busy I am every Monday night, every Tuesday, every other Thursday are booked forthe next two months and I am going to try to go riding every Friday plus school and Church. But I am very thankful to the Lord for everything He has done for me! Well, I am not writeing this entrry to tell you how busy I am. AND NOW FOR THE BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM NOT SHOWING COPENHAGEN IN THE FAIR!!!!!!!!!! Please let me explain. The Monte's have a horse by the name of Excel. She is a 15 year old regesterd Paint Horse. However, she does not look like a paint horse. If you were to look at here you would say she is a Querter Horse but she has a white stirpe that is about 6" long and that is what makes her a Paint Horse that and her Pedigree also requires her to be regesterd as a Paint Horse. Anyway, I am going to be showing her in the county fair! I just don't think that Copenhagen is going to be ready to show. He is just to much of a cow horse. Allow me to tell you some of her pros and cons. Excel's Pros. #1. She has done western pleasure shows in the past. #2. She is defenitly smarter than Copenhagen. (sorry Copenhagen.) #3. Her legs are strait. Why do I say that? Because Copenhagen has one crooked leg and he will get points off for that in halter showing.  #4. Excel knows that she needs to keep her neck down. Copenhagen always has his head up in the air. So those are some of the Pros of Excel. Now for the Cons. Cons of Excel. #1. She had heaves last year. It is really a miracle that she didn't die. #2. She had been ridden only 2 time in 2008. But when I got on her last week she was almost perfect. #3. There is a chance that her allergies could act up in the spring. But we can give her a shot for that. Those are some of her Cons. This does not mean that I am not going to ride Copenhagen anymore. When I asked Preacher ( Pasor Monte) about showing Excel he was all for it and he siad that I can use Copenhagen for team penning and ranch rodeos. So I am really happy about all this. Well, that is all I have to say for now. I will post something new as soon as posable. PLEASE Leave a comment. CowboyKing  http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/650469/ Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:37:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/650469/ I was tagged by QuaterHorseCrazy.  I think I am doing this right.  I am working on a new entry about Box T so I will have that up as soon as possible. Just hang in there. What's you favorite TV show? I don't really Know I have a lot. What's your favorite movie? Oh boy!!!!! I don't know I have a lot of those to. I like Lonsome Dove and gods and genrals to.  what's your favorite color?do you wear lip gloss? WHAT?!?!?!?! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's your favorite book? Boy oh boy another hard one.  I LOVE the Rodeo rider series What's your favorite subject? I like Math and History. What's your favorite flower? I don't know. What's your hobby? Horse back riding, reading... I have allot of them What is your favorite food? I like Pizza and steak. What is your favorite animal? definatley a HORSE What is your hair color? Brown. What is your favorite candy?I don't know.  What are your wearing? Ummm.....who has to know? Ok I am just jokeing ;) Wrangler jeans, wrangler western shirt and my belt and buckle. Ok well I really mest that up big time.  But what can I say it  was my first tage now I know what not to do.  Thanks for reading.  Leave a comment please. CowboyKing http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/646860/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:30:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/CowboyKing/646860/