The Fort Worth rodeo is here! On Saturday night we headed out to the movies and got a good dose of what happens to Fort Worth on the weekends that the rodeo is in town. First, since we live right near the stockyards, we were overwhelmed by the traffic--hundreds of pickup trucks filled with ten-gallon hats. Then, as we headed up University Ave, a major street that runs through Fort Worth, we were stopped by a parade of horses--probably about 100--as they headed out of the rodeo. There was every kind of horse and, if you're going to be stuck in traffic, there are worse things to look at. It was just kind of bizarre. In normal cities, traffic doesn't get backed up to the highway by a parade of horses.

Anyway, this year we are really making an effort to go to the rodeo. Tomorrow night is Bulls Night Out and we will be there. I will likely be making comments about the inhumanity of the rodeo too loudly and we might get jumped by some cowpeople, but then we will go look at the stockyard animals, who will be peacefully awaiting their fates in their pens inside of the Will Rogers Center. I like the goats the best. And it's pretty funny to see a cowboy blow drying and brushing his 900 pound steer.

Stay tuned for rodeo pictures.