we do all of those, but I'm also an avid reader, always have been since I was a child. You don't have to be an intellectual to enjoy reading.
Holly, when were you ever at a rodeo? Do you still boat and fish? Last time you was at a gun range? Just wondering, because you don't talk about it at all, like I do. Rodeo...…..have no idea where that came from, but. Many people who enjoy reading can be called "intellectuals" or "bookworms". Got both words from the internet.
Cody I was sailing on Sunday...I was at my boat yesterday. I haven't been on the range for a year since my rotator cuff injury in both shoulders but that's improved so I'll be going again this summer ..we fish all the time we have a freshwater trout stream behind my house... I don't go to rodeo's because there's none here, but there are plenty of horses near my home, if I fancied riding which I don't due to a back issue.. I don't feel the need to continually talk about everything I do because ,..I do so much including gardening, photography, volunteering at a local kennels.. travelling home and abroad.. and loads of other stuff!!
That’s fine Holly, but you said “I do all of those things...” which included going to rodeos. I wasn’t talking about riding a horse anymore, like I use to do (and rope), I was talking about watching rodeos. You misread what I meant. IOW, when you said “all”, which included rodeo in my reply, I was curious. People misread replies all the time. Chrissy misreads mine all the time and gets upset.
That's not true @Cody Fousnaugh ....EVERYTHING you say gets me upset. You just rub me the wrong way.....I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one either. Talking about the other forum now... Just my opinion...l
I didn't mis-read your comment Cody..I just thought you would have the intelligence to at least know there was no Rodeos' in London...lol, but let's be honest here...of the very few things you do as a means of entertainment, Rodeos' don't seem to be among them... at least I have access to horses all around me if I wanted...but you're just a an ex rodeo rider living in an apartment in a city with no horse.......and purlease..are you seriously telling us that all this talk of rodeos is just you ''watching them'' ?..any one of us could do that online...
I know you're not asking me, but I feel like answering anyhow. As for rodeos, I was on the committee that created the Los Fresnos PRCA Rodeo when it was created by the Lions Club in Los Fresnos, and covered every day of either the 1st Aid station or EMS for that rodeo for five years, and then again a few years later when I was working part-time for Los Fresnos. For five years, we had the contract to provide EMS and 1st Aid for the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show in Mercedes, Texas. We staffed the 1st Aid station there 24-hours a day for the annual 10-day run, which included a rodeo each day, which we provided ambulance coverage for. I have never attended a rodeo as a spectator, though, largely because we didn't have rodeos in the UP of Michigan when I was growing up, and they're not big here in Maine either. If I tried to attend a rodeo as a spectator in Texas, someone would get hurt and someone would put me to work, regardless of whether I was on duty or not. I have never enjoyed fishing, other than smelt fishing and ice fishing, but I once made boats for a living, while employed by Yar-Craft. The company had a few boats that we could check out whenever we wanted to go boating, plus I made myself a canoe and a kayak. I didn't so much enjoy boating with a motor, but have been canoeing and kayaking bunches of times. In my younger days, I could rock a kayak so that it turned upside down in a lake, then rock it while underwater so that it righted itself again, all without getting out of the kayak. I don't know about kayaking but canoeing isn't like riding a bike though. You do forget how. The last time I tried canoeing, I capsized it repeatedly, and that was without trying to. As a child, I have also spend a fair amount of time in rowboat. We called them punts in Boy Scouts, and my wife and I have been out on the lakes in Baxter State Park here in Maine on a rowboat a few times. The last time I was at a gun range was when I was qualifying to be a SWAT Medic in Texas. My shooting wasn't great but I did better than some of the cops who were qualifying. With a hundred acres of land, I don't need to go to a gun range.
Okay, on the other hand, is your wife not gainfully employed? If she is, whether or not she enjoys it is all too important because work is a continual learning experience almost as much as cracking the books. If one enjoys what they do, then the person may say that they also enjoy learning through the experience of bringing home the bacon ergo, a form of entertainment. Now, let’s flip that same coin again. Do you not read and respond to a couple of forums? Whether or not you actually enjoy it, you learn from it every time you read a post. If all you enjoy doing is roping fish and catching horses in a canoe, then why do the forum scene? Because you enjoy it! And like it or not........You Do learn! For instance, did you know that nearly 90% of boating deaths are because of the misuse and non use of safety gear? There, although you weren’t entertained, you learned something. AND, it also brought about an emotional response and probably one of displeasure. Learning isn’t necessarily a task to be frowned upon because it always invokes an emotional response. Whether one of joy, sadness, boredom or excitement, it’s a response and people call a positive response something akin to entertainment. Some people like myself, can sit and study history or math and get so wrapped up in it that we become part of history or mentally flip through the dictionary of math attempting to unravel that ever changing but constant language. It’s exciting! Others tend to need a little more color or something that they can relate to in order to make things real, and still others need to add music or even theater to it. Note: Whom among us didn’t learn the abc’s by singing a little song or didn’t learn that the Battle of New Orleans occurred in 1814 by hearing the song by Johnny Horton? It’s all a matter of personal perspective. Learning, like stubbing one’s toe on the bed leg, isn’t always free from pain even though we laugh at it later. Also, like the first time we experienced sex, isn’t always ecstatic beacuse we may cringe at the thought of it. Learning is always emotional, so its almost always entertaining if we look at it in the right light. Ya know, the light next to the bed ya should have had on or you wouldn’t have stubbed your toe and lost that special desire you had moments before. Perspective............
I'm on my toes...wonder if anyone on here...I know it's a long shot..but could it be possible that anyone..., might know the next flight to Wyoming... or Colorado..
Just out of curiosity, I Had to google “rodeos in the UK” and believe it or not, there are quite a few. I’m not sure but Leeds and Norbury seem to have the largest events, IF, (and that’s a big if) you’re really interested in goat ropers and guys trying to ride a ticked off horse. (For me, I used to break Mustangs in Nevada for government sales and I never want to have that particular learning experience again much less even watch it.) There’s even a British Rodeo Assn. which claims to endorse western style rodeo. It would seem the only difference between U.S. and British rodeos might be the accents of the cowboys, their drink of choice and possibly where they go potty: the loo or agaist the barn. Give me a good steeple chase any day where at least it is admitted that the horse is as smart or smarter than the person riding it. Again, a matter of perspective. Ah, the things we can learn in a day!
hmmmm………...I do not think I actually answered the OP yet. Is my focus on education or entertainment? Education IS entertainment to me and entertainment, whether liked or disliked, is always educational.
LOL...I doubt they are rodeos with real horses @Bobby Cole , probably fairground style ...and Leeds is the other end of the country from me..I wouldn't go to the end of my road to watch a rodeo... ..but like you I do enjoy horse racing..I wouldn't miss the annual grand national
We have rodeos up here, Holly, and there are rodeos a few miles down the road from where Cody is located. One of my daughters-in-law was once a champion barrel rider. The biggest rodeo I know isn't in the U.S.--it is in Canada. The Calgary Stampede is the largest rodeo in the world, and you might get better rates to Canada than you can to the U.S. Second biggest is in Wyoming, if you are interested. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-travel-picks-rodeos-idUSLNE86501Q20120706
I probably spend a little more time and effort researching topics on Google than watching Internet-TV, but not much. Since kicking Comcast out, and stomping my TV antenna to bits, the internet is my one-stop source for watching TV shows and movies. On the other hand, I can't read books anymore, so the internet is also my sole source for this too. Guess when you add up researching topics and reading online books, education far outweighs entertainment.