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roping (to boost bids)
The same young man from yesterday, putting a horse through the things horses are supposed to do in order to boost bids at the auction.
See how much I’ve already learned about how these things work? I’m practically an expert.
Random (to me) comment from the auctioneer: This one ain’t slobbering his face all over.
Mallet Event Center
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.10.2024
young horse trainer
This kid right here showed several horses during the horse sale. He’s also – according to the auctioneer – “fixin’ to move to Muleshoe.” That’s not a weird cowboy euphemism, but an actual town name. In case you thought there was something weird going on.
Mallet Event Center
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.10.2024
at the horse sale
Every day that I go in to my office, I pass by an events center. And every day I read the marquee announcements of coming events. A lot of them are mysterious to me – generally because they relate to agriculture or rodeo things that are outside of my normal set of things I do.
As part of a commitment to “do more stuff” this year, I decided to head over to the center the other Saturday to check out the Clovis Horse Sales. There was no entry fee, so there wasn’t an apparent down side, other than the extremely remote possibility that I might accidentally bid on a pony.
It turned out to be quite an entertaining few hours.
And I came home pony-less.
Mallet Event Center
Levelland, Texas
photographed 2.10.2024
time can do so much
This building was the school for the community of Allmon for about a quarter century; in 1935 the school was merged with the one in the nearby town of Petersburg. That was followed by years of being vacant, a time as the offices for Barwise Elevator and Fertilizer, and another era of vacancy.
The building is made from tan brick with red-brick accents around the windows, which I guess was the height of rural school design back in 1909.
Allmon, Texas
photographed 2.3.2024
(Historical information from the Texas State Historical Association.)
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