Cowgirl Narrative

This is definitely a bittersweet time in my life. I have loved and cherished these past 4 years at Palmyra and I can attribute most of my enjoyment to the time I spent playing lady cougar basketball. Looking back at my time playing I can truly say that i've made memories and friends in this program that will last a lifetime. This being my senior year I especially wanted to embrace everything this season could offer me. I went as hard as I could in practices and games because I knew that my time remaining in this uniform was dwindling and I wanted to leave nothing on the court when that final buzzer went off. Unfortunately, that time came sooner than expected when I suffered a season ending injury in the Bishop Mcdevitt game, however the silver lining to that night was beating them. I was extremely devastated that my high school basketball career

She helped me out on how to properly breathe and pace myself and today was the big day. My first race on our home course. The girls and I quickly got on the start line: a white, painted line on the grass. Then an old man slowly approached us, one step at a time. He wore dark pants with a navy blue flannel shirt that was two size to big along with an old raggedy blue Cubs hat. Each step building more and more tension in the air. Once in front of us, the old man raised his arm pointing a gun towards the sky. He stared directly at us, watching for anyone who would try and get an early start. In that moment time slowed down; as if in some time warp everything became slow. The wind stopped my breathing slowed down, no longer could I move and then “Boom.” It was as if I was in the famous battle of Gettysburg. The first shot had gone off and the whole stampede of boys and girls began running toward the target.

We left Garberville, CA at 5 a.m. We knew it would be a long haul ahead of us. I slept on the floorboard of the back seat of Holly’s truck for the first couple of hours. Holly was a funny outgoing and straight to the point person. Along with us were my Mom and Dad, Dylan(Holly’s husband) and there two kids Ashley and Clayton. Dylan was a tall red head that is always the life of the party. Ashley was a short dirty blonde girl that loves her horses. And Clayton, clayton was just like his dad a big built red hair with blue eyes and super outgoing. Finally were my parents. My Mom and Dad we both very active outgoing people who got along great with Dylan and Holly and their kids so we knew it was going to be a fun week in Winnemucca. We

Soon after that dark but vivid experience, I found out some heartbreaking news. Her name was Tayloor’ Shae’ Johnson. She and I were so close that you could barely tell us apart. She helped me with all of my problems and everything that I was dealing with. Since my first grade year and her third-grade year, we have always been together. Then she had to move to Montana with her dad, because of family issues with her mom and step-dad. After proceeding off the airplane and getting in the car she was on the way to her father’s house when instantly an eighteen-wheeler truck impacted the car. Tayloor’ was immediately rushed to the hospital. The doctors didn’t know what else to do. She later was

It all started on one cold, exotic, saturday night. She had gone with her friends to a rodeo in the quiet town of Eureka. She had gotten VIP seats because it was her friend Eve’s birthday, and Eve had to help sing the national anthem. She watched as Eve sang beautifully, and held her part like she had never had a problem. Afterwards, Eve came back and sat by Alaina and the rest of the girls, which consisted of Morgan and Sam. They had just started talking

I remember the first time I ever set eyes on Gracie Adams; she was sitting on her front porch holding on tight to a piece of white paper in her right hand while drying her tears with the other. Her little sparrow legs were sticking out from under her faded blue floral dress and her flaming red hair was tossed and tangled. Maw had sent me on an errand to the grocery store to get some sugar for her morning coffee when I came across Gracie sobbing her heart out. I had a mind to keep on walking but if I had I couldn’t think what the rest of my life would have been like. Gracie and her Mother were new to our street that I did know, simple thing being I had overheard my Aunt Cassie and my own Maw gossiping about them one evening after supper.

As we made our way across the park to the ride that I was dreading to go on all I could think about was how tall it is. You could see the ride from anywhere in the park and the park is huge. And it didn’t help that i knew that it went ninety miles per hour. The ride was called Millennium Force. Finally we got to the ride and walked right on. As we rode up the three hundred foot hill and I had the lap bar so tight it hurt my legs and i couldn't move. At the drop, which was more than straight down, was very scary. But it didn’t last as long as I thought it would. The ride was about a minute and a half long, but it was so much fun that it felt like it was thirty seconds. After the ride we walked out and my parents and my aunt and uncle were waiting for us outside of the exit of the ride. We went and saw the pictures of the ride and in my picture I had a huge smile on my

In March 2010, my parents decided to find another horse for me to ride. I was no longer going to Bunker Hills and I started to ride my dad’s friends horse. My dad friend ran out of time to do lessons with me. I was not able to ride. When March came my parents went horse searching to find a horse I could ride. They finally came across this sweet horse named Lucie and that month I started doing lessons on her. This horse was so special to me, I treated like she was mine and only mine. She was in away my parents leased her.

As I sat in the truck on the twelve mile ride I thought to myself this day has finally come I’m about to do what I’ve always wanted to. I didn’t know what to expect so I asked my cousin for a prep talk before the show. As we got closer and closer I got nervous and nervous, but I was ready. My cousin could tell I was nervous from all the moving and talking I was doing. Yay, we finally made it and its time to unload to horse and get them saddle up so this show can begin. With that being my first horse show I was proud of myself because I finish in 3rd place. To finally get the chance to do what I’ve being wishing to do forever made me feel like the happiest person in the

And the all of a sudden it made a break and got like 2 feet passed where I had been standing and the driver Hunter Myers got off the race bike to lead her off the track. Then suddenly she dropped over and couldn’t get back up. Everyone was curious and was going to the fence where she was to see what happened. She laid there for a good 10 minutes while the vet and others were trying to figure out what was wrong and if she was still alive. I went over also and as soon as I seen her I knew what had happened. She had tied up she had a huge knot in her stomach. I felt the pain for her owner as he stood there not knowing what to do while this vet was clueless and was obviously not very experienced. The two year old filly died lying on the track causing the races to be delayed. A blanket was covering her and they got her off of the track with a truck and

As usual, everyone felt comfortable as we were laughing, talking about the bands that were performing and having fun. So I did ask Rose if she would like to join us and she said I wish I could, but that she had come with her brother Charles and his family for the weekend. But while they were driving to the music festival the water pump busted and broke, they were set-back at what was much-needed family time after the death of her mother and felt that her place was with

I remember the day just like it was yesterday, the pale color and coldness of her skin. The sky was clear blue, soft, with a touch of red, and the trees seemed stiff in their bright green shade. The wind was blowing with its humid dry air. And All I could do was stand silently in disbelief, caught up in my own thoughts and calm as I ever been. Wondering what I could have done differently to change the course of time, life had taken us upon. Since that very day a chunk of my heart was ripped away, and broken into pieces… “Oh how I miss her so much.”

I made this plan to take a vacation with the horses. I called all of my best friends to come with me. We all went to Colorado from South Dakota. We’re riding the horses there. We packed up and got ready to go. We got starting to leave my home. We’re in Nebraska. We took a night break. We all woke and made breakfast and coffee on the firepit. We started leaving to Colorado to meet new horses and people. We got to Colorado. The people was so exciting to see us. They wanted to race and see who can we beat to win the trophy and three million dollars. We raced with other people and horses and I beat them all and won the race. We stayed in colorado for two weeks. Two weeks later, we packed and went home

I was so ready to get out there with Grandpa Bob. We started back the old forest service road, I was so tired I was starting to fall asleep, until dad clipped a rock, and the whole machine jostled side to side. He laughed and said ,”Didn’t want ya to fall asleep over there!” We got to where we would park the ATV’s, and I saw Grandpa Bob hobble off his ATV, I knew his knee wasn’t good , so I knew we would be stopping to “take a breath” every little bit. As we head up the oak brush covered hillside Grandpa tells me all about his old hunting stories, and how him and his old war buddies used to have a blast hunting. It seemed like every couple hundred yards he would say,”We got one here years ago”, or ,”Gunnie shot about 5 times here.” I loved hearing stories about the past, and all his adventures on this mountain, before I knew it we were there, in “Bob's Meadow”. We sat down in a group fallen aspen trees, it seemed like we sat for hours. I began to get bored and wondered,”I wonder what’s over that hill…” Grandpa must have noticed that and he started to tell me of times where he sat for hours and hours, but as soon as he got up someone shot an animal right where he was. Right then I heard a huge commotion coming from the other side of the meadow , I couldn't believe my eyes when a beautiful 5 point buck strutted into the meadow. I was

I hugged her and told her that everything was going to be ok. When the time for me to leave El Paso came, I said goodbye to all of my friends and we even had planned a farewell party. I traveled for more than fourteen hours to get to Iowa. While in the car I looked through the window every now and then. I got to see beautiful landscapes I hadn’t seen before. I finally arrived to Iowa at one in the morning. The weather was totally different, foggy and humid. Since we were in the middle of the summer, and school didn’t start until the end of August, I didn’t really know anyone. I found it hard to make friends since the place and culture was different. No one really talked to me, I don’t really know why; I guess they saw me as a weird guy.