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Jodie Earl, Legendary Cutting Horse, Charles King Ranch, Wichita Falls

Sports Illustrated, April 18, 1955

The art of cutting cattle out of the herd, like bronco riding, is a sport which has grown out of old-time ranch work in the West. In recent years, however, it has been carried to the arena and is now one of the most popular horseman sports in the country. The horse, which is usually ridden loose-reined, must cut out a calf and hold it out. Top cutting horses today are Quarter Horses, and one of the best is Jodie Earl (below and on following pages), who can do the job without a rider.

Whirling in a cloud of dust, Jodie Earl, wearing a saddle but without a rider, closes in on cutout calf from the herd on Owner Charles King’s ranch in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Sequence of moves to keep the calf from rejoining herd begins as Jodie Earl heads it off, keeping the balance of his weight on hind legs so he can spin in opposite direction when calf tries new dodge. Cutting horse must never turn its tail to the cattle.

Seeing an opening, the calf streaks toward the herd (above), but the riderless horse preguesses it and whirls to cut it off (lower left). Standing with legs far apart (below), Jodie Earl is ready to pivot either way and is in full control of baffled calf.

Now completely cut off from rest of the herd the calf starts running in wide circle, intent on getting back, but the highly trained cutting horse Jodie Earl stays close behind, anticipating which way calf will dodge so he can dodge the same way and prevent him from rejoining them.

 

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  1. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. I’m keeping an eye on radar every so often to guess when the storm will come over us. Last night’s weather news indicated there could be heavy rain with it, all depending on where you are. It’s not being pushed by a real cold front, unfortunately. Hope we haven’t run out of those already.

  2. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Much needed rain covered our area overnight, but things to the west are clear for now. It’s unusual to see everything looking green and swampy, but I’m pretty certain it won’t last long. Temp is 58 degrees this morning which is a little cooler than the past few nights. Grow grass grow. I see talk this morning about Roseanne trying to revive her tired old act by turning conservative. Is it a remake of Roseanne, or a redo of All In The Family? Either way, I won’t be watching. Just wondering if the nets are trying to reclaim some of their lost audience. Outside chores will have to be postponed one more day it looks like. After this rain there is no doubt the mower will have to come out. Here’s hoping that you all have a great day.

  3. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Is Al Gore in North Africa ? Where’s the warming ?

    Heavy snows in the Algerian Sahara Desert.

    Snows covering Eastern Europe, beaches in France, most of Spain, Ireland and the UK at the end of March. Euros are bummed out because their Pesach/Easter holiday trips are ruined, especially if it involved a beach.

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I believe Texpat referenced a story about a non cat owning couple speaking about cats and suddenly cat products started appearing in the FB edge ads. This story is more evidence of same. Facebook is the debbil.

    HEADLINE: Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work

  5. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Yah.

    The guy with pink hair really inspires confidence.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Daughter reported a H3!! of a Hail storm in Midland last night.
    Mornin’ Gang

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    5 Sarge

    The guy with pink hair really inspires confidence.

    Oh, I agree. Although, this pink-haired Wylie character is a daunting mastermind.

    This is a profile of him I read a week ago. The story gets complicated and involves a lot of players, but there is no doubt this guy is a tech genius.

    Wylie oversaw what may have been the first critical breach. Aged 24, while studying for a PhD in fashion trend forecasting, he came up with a plan to harvest the Facebook profiles of millions of people in the US, and to use their private and personal information to create sophisticated psychological and political profiles. And then target them with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup.

    “We ‘broke’ Facebook,” he says.

    And he did it on behalf of his new boss, Steve Bannon.

    “Is it fair to say you ‘hacked’ Facebook?” I ask him one night.

    He hesitates. “I’ll point out that I assumed it was entirely legal and above board.”

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    To Be Filed Under “Reality Beats Fiction Every Time”

    There is something almost poetic about this story emblematic of the current deterioration of California.

    Sewer line ruptures in stadium and floods the field with sewage. The headline:

    Smelly liquid floods area of field at Dodger Stadium, ending the Angels-Dodgers game

  9. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, Couch Critters. I am off to a dental appointment this morning. When I got my reminder call yesterday, I was advised that due to a water leak that had flooded their office, they were working out of their Spring Branch location. I opted to go there anyway, but I’m hoping to get home without getting wet myself.

  10. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #8 TP: Visions of the future of CA.

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Linda Brown died last Sunday.

    Linda Brown was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas. Because she was forced to travel a significant distance to elementary school due to racial segregation, her father was one of the plaintiffs in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, with the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that school segregation was unlawful. Brown continued living in Topeka as an adult, raising a family and continuing her desegregation efforts with the area’s school system. She passed away on March 25, 2018, at age 76.

    and,

    An aim of the case was to bring down the precedent set up by the 1896 decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, which sanctioned the idea of “separate but equal” facilities for racial divisions. In 1954, this aim was achieved when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education, disavowing the notion of “separate but equal” and concluding that segregated facilities deprived African-American children of a richer, fairer educational experience.

  12. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Apparently El Gordo has good reason to wary of ducks.

    We are all gonna die!!!!!

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HEADLINE: Israel deploys 100 sharpshooters on Gaza border for Palestinian protests – Israeli army chief

    Anybody wanna bet that the slimy palis will refrain from using their children as human shields and/or border testers?
    My prediction is that they children will be induced to rush the barrier to try to damage it, the Israeli reaction will be to start shooting. The palis will claim that Israel is murdering innocent children, most of the UN and US news propaganda media will agree.

  14. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    How often do you get to make a bunch of lefty loon protesters cry while you get to enjoy a gourmet meal?

    Bonus extra bit of utter lack of self-awareness:

    “Don’t even know if this is legal for him to be doing this,” [protester] Goldberg fretted. “I don’t know what he thinks this will achieve.”

    Better still:

    one commenter on the protesters’ Facebook page wrote: “[object of the protests] Antler is now the hottest restaurant in Toronto thanks to you guys. Congrats.” Most — if not all –of the other commenters on the animal rights activists’ forum expressed similar sentiments.

  15. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #14: The schadenfreude is raging by the agony of the protesters. People Eating Tasty Animals.

  16. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    If this works out, it would rank among the greatest achievements in the history of humanity. A 100MW fusion reactor the size of a 40-foot shipping container that would consume about 25lb of essentially unlimited fuel per year.

    Prototype is expected in the next several months.

  17. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Light rain is falling out here on the moors of the Brazos, but the sky is only overcast and not dark yet. Fortunately I was able to sweep up many of the hordes of oak blossoms into piles away from the front door and off the back porch and patio and driveway in front of the garage before it started. The dry stuff is challenge enough, but the wet ones weigh a lot and do not sweep willingly.

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I’m still wondering if we are going to get much rain inside the 610 loop. This radar image has not changed very much all day. That being said, up in Shannonville, it looks like it has been training storms all day with no let up in sight.
    Perhaps our intrepid, on the spot reporter, one of the Johnson boys, can opine?

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Did my rounds at the crack of dawn to avoid the weather apocalypse. The first line missed us. We’ve had some showers pop up in advance of the second, very nasty, line which is approaching. If you watch this line closely it produces some very ugly “commas” along its entire length. It’s a flip of the coin if one gets ya. Hunker your battens down.

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    In the first line, the training was moving at 40mph and produced some 60mph straight line winds north of Houston.

  21. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Brenham is getting hammered now, so we’re next.

  22. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    In a post on Facebook that has since been deleted, event organizer Marni Jill Ugar wrote that she felt Hunter had been “taunting” the group.

    Very perceptive, this one.

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #12 Squawks

    Apparently El Gordo has good reason to wary of ducks.

    We are all gonna die!!!!!

    No, not all of us. Tim is the only one who has a bathtub duckie.

  24. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Have been checking the radar recently and see that Shannon’s area is in the path of that really long and thick line of storms lumbering this way.

    A few brief moments of pale sunshine around noon is all we’ve seen today. The sky view to the NW is darker now but not angry dark yet. Breeze is picking up.

    News on the radio from San Antonio’s encounter with the front and storms is that it was rocking and rolling pretty good on the way through, with lots of light company customers still without power. Houston area weather folk have not backed off any cautions thus far issued.

  25. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    #14, 15 – That meat cutter should move one of these in front of his plate glass window.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG4WhppBNCM

  26. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    A small stray storm just passed over us. The main line is right up the road, with a nice little comma trying to form just to the Southwest. We may have drawn the short straw this time.

    I’m home studying for a state test for a license which I let expire about six years ago because I wasn’t working with wastewater. At the last class I attended they said the C Wastewater test is now the hardest (even worse than the B or A test). The failure rate is over 50%.

    I passed it with a 90 grade back in the early 90’s, but not so confident right now. The math problems will probably kill me. You must remember all the formulas. Hell, I don’t even remember where my keys are right now.

  27. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Power lost about fifteen minutes ago. It’s been a long time since that has happened.

    The handy dandy pull apart lanterns I showed y’all before Christmas are working great.

  28. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    That’s a very nasty comma on the last storm in the train. It might just miss me. Too early to tell.

  29. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Holding advanced weather radar in your hand is very cool.

  30. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    I’m sure Shannon is battened down by now. The radar picture is not pretty as it advances our way.

    Regarding Shannon’s studying for the C Wastewater test certification, that scary failure rate of over 50% sounds a lot like what the infamous CPA failure rate used to be. I hear that the CPA failure rate is currently not nearly that high, as a friend passed it the first time with flying colors.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Mebbe if Shannon aces this test, he can lobby for a raise. . . . Seeing as how most fail, he then becomes worth more.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    What I thought was the end of the line crossing I-10 at Columbus apparently is not.

    Looks like the line is suddenly extending itself all the way to Corpus.

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    31
    Ha! I’m so in demand that I already got the raise. Remember me crying about having to write a fat check to the IRS?
    🙂

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If everyone had to pay quarterly this would be a different country.

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The math problems will probably kill me.

    A train leaves New Orleans at 7:00pm at a speed of 50mph. Another train leaves San Antonio at 11:30pm at a speed of 75mph.

    Why can the driver of the San Antonio train not accept that his child, who was designated male at birth, chooses to express xirself as an agender demisexual?

    Why does the railroad that owns the New Orleans train persist in hiring only misogynistic racist homophobic bigots to operate its trains?

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And why do New Orleans trains always have so many cross dressers?

  37. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I must give the TCEQ some credit, they have repeatedly encouraged the governor(s) over the years to sue the EPA to stop their insanity.

    Other than that, I don’t have too many positive things to say.

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Anybody else but me notice a lack of hummingbirds? My lovely BSue says it may still be early, but I checked the dates on my pictures of hummingbirds and have found that we usually have at least 4 buzzing around by now.

  39. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Maybe they got stuck on the San Antonio train.

  40. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    El Gordo has impounded all of them.

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    The oak pollen is so bad that the hummingbirds can’t fly.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Millions of hummingbirds walking around like ducks, covered in yellow. Pitiful.

  43. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Hummingbirds walking around looking like ducks = elaborate counter spy program

  44. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I put my hummingbird feeders up last week I think, and there are several buzzing about most of the time. A few baby half-sized in the mix. One feeder is almost dry, but the one in front doesn’t get nearly as much traffic for some reason.

  45. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Trans-species hummingducks.

  46. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    You guys crack me up. I see El Gordo has prolly cornered the market on hummingbirds ducks.

  47. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Looks like Adee and Sarge are going to miss out on all the fun.

    For now.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Katfish might even squeak by with some showers.

  49. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Strange storm. Even while in the darkest red of the radar it remained fairly bright out there and never got dark/dark.

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Plenty of loud thunder for an hour and a half, though.

    Max is full on anxiety attack, under the bed.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    This ongoing weather report brought to you by the TCEQ, Busch Beer, and Ducks Unlimited.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Fay is in Katy at the cardiologist. They may complete the trip with nothing more than some rain showers, too.

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Trying to clear up out here.

    Just observed that a pair of mocking birds -usually the local bullies – clear out pretty fast when the big-mouth, screeching woodpecker shows up.

  54. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #52 and other weather posts……… – Elec power just flickered here at least a half dozens times but thankfully (so far) did not stay OFF.

    Fixin to get FULLY “rain geared” up as we have a new potential HERO family to go interview tonight (at least Gracie and I do NOT have to get on any freeway to get there)……………as we say “whatEVER it TAKES!!!!!”

    So if Yall are hunkered down and not liking it……………..try doing it at 40 – 50 MPH outside! 🙂

  55. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I have been in my driveway for about 15 minutes, waiting for a break to go inside. It didn’t rain this hard the whole way in, until I got in the hood.

  56. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    We’re getting a good hard rain, I bet my front yard grass starts growing now! I am looking forward to my first mowing in the front. I like for my yard to look spiffy. And by my own efforts, may I add?

    Oh, y’all knew that already.

  57. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    All’s quiet on the Barrio front. Looks like it’s fixin’ to unload shortly there. It’s eerily calm.

  58. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Oh, did I mention we’re heading up to Dallas tomorrow to see Astros v. Rangers on Opening Day? Don’t be jelly, beaches 😉

  59. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    #54 from yesterday, don’t recall them. Nice looking resonator guitar though.

  60. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Looks like the squall line is washing out before it gets to me.

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Now the Mighty Trade Warrior wants to use the full administrative powers of the United States government to go after Amazon.

    Big Government jerk.

  62. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Hamous, looking at the links to that, bet you heard Bauhaus.

  63. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Numbers 😉

  64. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Smokin hot gurdy woman shows off her new custom 18 string Hurdy Gurdy.

    https://youtu.be/jgXmxQQW5F4

  65. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    More than four is just showing off.

  66. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Now getting those four to work has been a learning curve. I don’t mean fretting the notes, the geometry of getting the strings aligned to the neck, how much curve in the neck, the pressure to make the bass frets sound clean, un-warping a neck left strung up too long, don’t even think of over stressing the truss rod on a through body bass.

  67. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Not much has happened here yet, just enough to water the yards and pastures. Not that we’re complaining. But the front isn’t all the way through yet, so there’s perhaps more to come that is not tranquil at all.

  68. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Oh, did I mention we’re heading up to Dallas tomorrow to see Astros v. Rangers on Opening Day? Don’t be jelly, beaches

    Well did I mention me and my boys attended game 7 of the ALCS vs the Yankees last year?? Pfffffftt!

  69. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    BC’s wife finally came out with an umbrella to bring him in the house.

  70. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Saint Arnold’s is the worst beer ever, the Christmas Ale in particular. If that don’t draw the Dude out, he ain’t here.

  71. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yeah, Well, I got Bob Gibson’s autograph.

  72. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I used to have a goal of attending all the stadiums around the country I could. Made it to Riverfront Stadium to see the Cincinnati Reds, Dodger Stadium, saw the Mariners at the Kingdome, almost got to go to Yankee Stadium but they weren’t in town and of course the Dome and Minute Maid. Never did go to the old Rangers place or the new one, as close as they are.

  73. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Got a Leo Fender? That would be cool. Or a clip of Dood playing live.

  74. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #64 Shannon, That’s Patty Gurdy, she often pops on my page over yonder.

  75. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Front has arrived here and is passing through. Down to 67 on the wings of a nice breeze that only ushers in a light mist.

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    No rain in Clear Lake all day, a sprinkle or two after 6 but the rain went north of us all day. That said; the wind is unbelievable, 30-40 MPH gusts. When I left B49 to head to 13, I had a hell of a time closing the van door since the wind was so strong.

  77. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    SD
    Yeah,
    Been following her on YouTube for some time now.

  78. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’ve been to baseball games Anaheim, Riverfront, Miller, Astrodome, and Minute Maid. Tomorrow to whatever the Rangers stadium is called. It seems like they just built that one, and they’re getting a new one next year. The company I work for has offices in lots of baseball cities. With my new job I should be able to get to more of them now.

    Interestingly, I’ve never been to either baseball stadium in Florida. That’s because I’ve lived in Texas so long they didn’t exist when I lived in Florida.

  79. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Florida has a Major League Baseball team?

  80. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m going to the Ranger game next weekend when they play the Blue Jays. My buddy from Rosenburg got traded from the Cardinals to the Blue Jays between seasons, and he a nephew to my BFF friend up there. Beats going to Toronto to see him play.

  81. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Well did I mention me and my boys attended game 7 of the ALCS vs the Yankees last year??

    Oh yeah? Well I went to the first World Series game ever played in the Great State of Texas.

  82. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Never been big on autographs. But I did buy Earl a beer in the airport bar at Love Field about 1990.

  83. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I have no interest in attending any events in any of the large venues. The only exception would be something like the quilt show.

    Between parking, tickets, and concessions, I’d rather keep my small fortune in the bank.

    The quilt show: $12 for ticket, I pack a lunch (but I can get food for under $20), and parking can be anywhere from $5 to $15, depending on how close I want to get. If I control myself with the vendors, I can still walk out with my bank account intact. After so many years, I’ve already bought most everything I would want, so it’s not so hard to restrain myself.

    I was talking to my neighbor recently, whose husband had taken their grandson to a monster truck show. They were not allowed to bring in food, the concessions were insane, and the tickets only slightly less so.

    Nope, not interested. I’d rather be able to go to a bathroom without waiting in line, and I can make some darn good snacks if’n I so wish.

  84. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    78 Hamous

    Interestingly, I’ve never been to either baseball stadium in Florida. That’s because I’ve lived in Texas so long they didn’t exist when I lived in Florida.

    Just thought that should be repeated. (<;

  85. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Libby Lehman is a friend of mine. How’s that for some name dropping?

  86. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    61 Shannon

    Now the Mighty Trade Warrior wants to use the full administrative powers of the United States government to go after Amazon.

    Big Government jerk.

    I don’t care what they do to Bezos.

    Amazon has been wholesale deleting reviews of conservative book authors and won’t even make an excuse for it.

    I’m really sick and tired of these mega-tech oligarchs.

  87. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    85 EG

    This Libby Lehman ? Impressive.

  88. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Yes. Her husband, Lester, and I played football together at Rice. She’s a Rice girl. I saw them in Ft. Worth at a bowl game that Rice played in, and a couple of weeks after that she suffered an aneurysm and almost died. Her recovery has been amazing, but she’s given up her quilting. Lester said he had no idea how popular she was until he started hauling mail sacks full of cards and letters from all over the world in every day.

  89. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #87
    Ehhh, not for me. That may be fabric art, but those are NOT quilts. Quilts adhere to tried and true, traditional patterns.

  90. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #89

    Actually, I would consider those quilts, and quite stunning. Technically speaking, a quilt is two pieces of fabric between which is stitched some kind of batting or filler, which gives dimension to the piece when stitching is applied.

    I used to be an anti-sewing machine purist, but I’ve backed off on that. I think those quilts should not be judged in the same category as the traditional hand-sewn. Just as the modern patterns you don’t like shouldn’t be in the same category as the traditional pieced items which most people associate with the word “quilt”. I’ve seen some picture quilts and stained glass quilts that dang near took my breath away. The most impressive one I’ve seen is a huge one – 20 feet long at least – that is a mosaic of 1″ squares. Stand back from it, and you see “The Last Supper”. I was going to take a picture of it and when I viewed it through my camera lens I couldn’t tell the difference between the quilt and the painting. It was possibly the most incredible piece of textile art I’ve laid eyes on. I don’t even want to think about the planning, the piecing, the ripping out and replacing, and the months of stitching that went into that piece. It travels the country now, and it should.

    What I don’t consider quilts are those “art” pieces that have crap hanging off them. One I saw was titled something like “Women’s Support Group” and had bras and girdles hanging off it. Bleh.

  91. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And I’m not a fan of painted images nor the photo transfer quilts, either.

  92. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Light rain here on the moors of the Brazos and 66. Looks like more is coming this way from the San Antonio area by tomorrow morning.

  93. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Looks like the weather guys got it wrong. This stuff is still training up from Monterey. Heavy rain heavy thunder here for the last two hours and more to come.

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