This is Miss Lila; in her sixties, she always competes in the local tractor pull. I have a new hero - hard-drinking, hard-smoking, loud and ornery, blunt and friendly - and yes she wins.
The above are the "enhanced" tractors; they are souped up and inject water into the engines to give them more RPMS for the gradually increasing weight - that's where the black smoke comes from.
Quilts, produce, art, and more quilts - a lot of people participate in the fair.
Friday and Saturday nights were the pro rodeo circuit nights - Sunday was the local ranch hands showing off their stuff. The local guys did much better at the team roping and bronc riding! It is one thing to do it for show - another to do it for a living, because you have to. The rodeo games are based on what these guys still have to do, every day, out on the ranches.
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