{"id":994,"date":"2009-07-20T01:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2009-07-18T16:37:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T23:37:54","slug":"real-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Real Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was taking Cozy&#8217;s newborn pictures, the usual Zimmermann chaos occurred.?? Steak got loose.???? How did a cow unlatch a gate I wonder??? Suspicious isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I was pleased at this turn of events because I figured there was a pretty great chance that I was going to get some fun action shots.?? In those few moments I had all kinds of wild pictures in my mind and was giggling with delight as the different scenarios played out in my mind.?? My brother was going to have to mount up on his horse, get out the lasso and chase Steak all over the ranch.?? The cow would dodge and ditch him at every turn and the sister (me) would be hiding with her camera behind a cactus cackling as the event unfolded while madly clicking away.?? Daniel would be doing his best round up imitations and would be giving the performance of a life time.?? Just for good merit, when the cow was at long last captured, Daniel would jump off his steed and hog tie him in under 10 just to impress me.?? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I was sorely disappointed when Daniel chose the lesser &#8220;cowboy&#8221; trick to get the cow back in the barn.???? Stole all my fun.?? My little idea balloon&#8230;.popped.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ranch5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can tell from the following, I was not the only one deflated.?? The other animals on the ranch were clammering for a good view as well.?? While visions of freedom danced in their head, they deliberated on a plan for their own break out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ranch4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ranch3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ranch2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now they just need a rat named Templeton and a spider named Charlotte.?? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ranch1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throwing in a distance view of Brooke&#8217;s garden just for fun.?? Did those sunflowers get enormous or what?<\/p>\n<p>Thought you needed a giggle on this fine Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.?? She removed the duct tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was taking Cozy&#8217;s newborn pictures, the usual Zimmermann chaos occurred.?? Steak got loose.???? How did a cow unlatch a gate I wonder??? Suspicious isn&#8217;t it? Anyhow, I was pleased at this turn of events because I figured there was a pretty great chance that I was going to get some fun action shots.?? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}