Buckeye Arizona Adventure

Day 31 - March 3. We got up early (7 am) - Chad winterized the trailer and the girls and I finished packing. Our goal was to roll out of Buckey by 9:00 am and we were heading out by 8:40 am. We started the long pull up to Flagstaff and we burned through a tank of diesel and a half tank of DEF. The truck and trailer did well and we only had to slow down when we got stuck behind a few semis. We fueled up three times (Flagstaff, Arizona and Gallop and Stanley, New Mexico) for a total of $201 in diesel (significantly more costly than our drive down). We arrived at Rockin Horse Ranch around 4:30 pm and got the mares settled in. Gin and Breeze ate and drank on the road, but Pippa will only drink when we stop for the night. All of the mares looked great getting out of the trailer. We visited with a couple from Illinois who had been in Wickenburg, unhooked, and went to town for pizza. We tried to sleep, but along with Chad gifting us with his presence, signing, ability to fix anything, and dri...

 Day 29 - March 1. We decided to stay at Buckeye today - the girls had some school works and tests to complete and I had some work to catch up on. The girls did go to roping practice later in the morning and stayed for several hours - they love roping practice! I went to check in on them and encouraged the ropers to put them to work! The girls then helped move a pen of steers (really bull and heifer calves) to the practice pen and then the cattle were run through the chute to remove their protective horn wraps that were on from the roping this past weekend. The ropers could remove 3 wraps to our 1! The girls then did some conditioning work with the mares and then went and roped with Minnesota Bruce (not to be confused with Uncle Bruce).  We came back to the trailer, did some work and school work, took a quick nap, and then went back over to Bruce's trailer for jambalaya and a fire. Surprisingly, the girls loved Mary's jambalaya and corn bread - I think it's the first time w...