Monday Afternoon at the Rodeo

This is rodeo season in San Antonio, and Elena is racing in anything open to teenagers.  Not only that, she's working with a trainer after school most days to up her game. 

She did great runs in the weekend barrel races--three this weekend and another tonight. 

On Thursday she found a newborn orphaned goat and has added goat-feeding-every-four hours to her busy days.  I can't believe how agile and sturdy Annie is so soon after birth, relating well to the dogs and horses and kids in rodeo world. She was a big hit with all the kids in the bleachers yesterday. 

Big old furry Conway, half blind, is turning out to be a natural surrogate mama,  treating Little Orphan Annie like his own little kid. .