Trying to be the most interesting person you've never met. My views are, just that: mine. God. Rodeo. Fast horses. Fast cars. Most these notes sat in drafts.
I just got off the phone with a friend who may not make it out of these fires. The conversation was our normal, tactical, strategical “go-get’em” call but when I said, “drive like hell and see ya on the other side” her voice broke and she just said, “love you, bye.”
My heart. 💔
A little boy’s body was found embraced with his dog’s body in a ditch where they cuddled together against the incoming flames and my heart hurts so bad. Praying for so many people and families ❤️
UPDATE: she just called and after swimming horses through a swamp they’re exhausted and 45 minutes out from our relief station with 6 head and more following them ❤️
God is good!
I just got off the phone with a friend who may not make it out of these fires. The conversation was our normal, tactical, strategical “go-get’em” call but when I said, “drive like hell and see ya on the other side” her voice broke and she just said, “love you, bye.”
My heart. 💔
I just want to get a group of Ag people together to create super dramatic SNL like ag news updates because that’s the kind of humor the world needs right now 😂
Things I learned from my first calving season: call women for help.
Not ONE man showed up to help when I called. Not the neighbor I bought cows from, not my ex, not the man down the road who said “call if you need help” not my dad, none.
You know who did? Every woman I called.
18 months ago my old boss laughed at me and said I was making the most money I’d ever make as a girl and should be thankful.
Today I collected checks for what he paid, from 2 separate clients and I just want to buy him a beer in thank you for fueling my entrepreneur hate fire.
Jackie Hobbs-Crawford’s ten time NFR qualifier husband Charly Crawford pushing her calf for her to win the first ever National finals breakaway roping world champion is
#goals
.
PC: Jackie Jensen Photography
Today we had baptisms at the church I got to go to where a HS boy walked up at the end, all alone, & asked in a quiet voice, “Do you have time for one more?”
Not. A. Dry. Eye.
God is GOOD
Thankful he felt the love of Jesus & the people in the room to take such a leap of faith ❤️
My friend is dealing with a degenerative disease and her non horseback riding husband has started to take lessons aggressively so that he can warm her horse up for her to help her show just a little a bit longer since her energy isn’t holding up.
The funniest part of me trying to be a rancher? Kevin.
Kevin is a year old today. My first calf born 31 days early, and has barely grown since. She can’t reach the feeder, can’t see over the fence, and is smaller than a mini horse. Also has gender issues with her tomboy name.
If you’re a nice person ... don’t ever STOP being a nice person. No matter how hard it gets or how challenging it may be, the world needs you more than you know!
I’m not lonely necessarily or desperate, I just want a hot guy with a nice brain to sit on the other end of the couch and quietly read a book while I do the same and tuck my always-cold-feet under him to stay warm.
Today at the Calvin Klein store casually browsing when the attendant goes, “are you...?” And gestured behind me. On the wall was a larger than life graphic of Kendall Jenner.
I’m going to remember this the next bad day I have.
Got to meet Gov. Noem and her daughter Kennedy today! So cool to hear her chat about sports, Title IX, the current political environment in her eyes and, of course, about rodeo. 🖤
Toby Keith - the man that made me feel some comfort after the 9/11 attacks because nine year old me blasting his music made me feel like America was going to get some revenge.
This person posted “if you support black lives matter - unfriend me” on Facebook.
So I did in about 0.2 secs FLAT.
30 secs later - the message notification goes off from “requests.”
“Hey why did you defriend me? My post? I didn’t mean you!”
Yes. Yes you quite literally do.
I texted all my friends to tell them the news and no one has responded yet so I’m going to tweet to the abyss …
My horse confirmed in foal with a heartbeat for the second check! Baby racehorse ON FREAKING BOARD!
After 9 days in Vegas, my realization is that I cut out coffee (like wut?), ate one meal a day (plus a few snacks) and only slept like 4 hours a night.
Vegas Katie is just built different.
I ran the fastest six miles I’ve probably ever ran today while we waited to hear if the rumor we got texted at 8 am was true.
Those four 9:30 miles didn’t change anything.
RIP cousin Kyle
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. God speed.
We found our best girl today ❤️
She had gone to rest in an alcove at the end of the field. May the happy hunting grounds be filled with ducks, adventures and all your favorite doggy friends that went before you!
Two years ago I went to Vegas with a trailer of clothes each in their own labeled garment bag with little coordinating bags of jewelry.
Today I threw some stuff into a backpack and suitcase at 4 am and hope something will work.
I just made eye contact with the cow that’s been open after 5 attempted breedings in 2 years as I called the butcher and added a second butcher cow in for my February order.
Is that morbid? Maybe.
Real.
Here’s why - Christmas Tree farmers are really struggling. First there was an epidemic that wiped out a lot of orchard and then, in 2020, when things couldn’t be tougher .... wildfires in the Northwest took out A LOT of fields.
Buying a real one means helping a family ❤️
Honestly, if anyone wants to practice their “ranch wife” skills for their resume - please come hang out with me on the weekends. Ranching solo, as my operation gets bigger, is really hard. Don’t get me wrong, I like the challenge, but this rain is already getting me.
A friend borrowed my rodeo queen utility trailer to get her wedding stuff to the venue and a trucker flashed his lights and honked at her until she pulled over.
Him: wait, you’re not Katie
Her: no
...
Her: do you know her?
Him: nah I follow her on insta
AM I FAMOUS?
The biggest lesson I learned from my twenties is to stop chasing the people you think you want as friends and be open and accepting to the people God wants you to have as your friends.
@Parker123Lydia
I got hired at a DB and the boss sat down with my impressive resume, looked me dead in the eye and said, “you’re hired.” (No questions asked.) I said, “why?” And he said, “you’re totally bangable.”
I got up, walked out the door, and have only gone their occasionally since.
Income tax is really eye opening when you’re either self employed or own a business.
I remember the good old days where I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE IT WAS GONE and then just got excited like I won the lottery when tax returns appeared. Are you kidding me? 😒😤
I submitted a post for a podcast group on Facebook searching for other podcasters in the farming/ranching/food sphere about a collab for a podcast I’m hoping to launch soon.
IT WAS DECLINED.
Why? The admin reason said that “that topic was potentially detrimental to society.”
I know why it is happening and I can’t blame anyone but also just let me sit on my bathroom floor and grieve for a moment knowing my Alma maters legacy as a women’s basketball school is going down the drain.
“BuT wHaT dO yOu Do iF yOu DoN’t HaVe A tV?!”
Well, my 5-9 after my 7-5 includes a walk with my dogs and barn chores, a healthy meal cooked and enjoyed, 1-2 hours of studying, yoga or piano playing, prepping for bed and then reading a book.
My 2019 goals are so scattered from eliminating debt to creating a self sustaining sector of my business to going to Italy to buying cows to pushing the structure of modern Ag media ... I realize that none of it goes together to a “normal” person but in my mind it works.
The worst part about seeing your friends that all live long distance is that when you say “goodbye” for the trip there’s no “I’ll see you <insert event>” because, truth be told, it may be year or even a decade before we see each other again.
Me: What's your horses name?
8 yr old Oklahoma Sweetheart: Taco
Me: Girrrrrll you speak my language!
Girl: Yes. English.
Me: No. Tacos! *gestures*
Girl: You speak horse?
Me:
Girl:
Me:
Girl:
Me: Good luck today.
Girl: K thanks.
My BF asked why I locked the door behind me when I took my dog out to go to the bathroom from my apartment. I looked at him in disbelief and said “so that no one sneaks in while I’m taking care of my dog.”
He said, “if you’re that scared why do you live here?”
... it’s anywhere.
Men luv to talk ab double standards but let’s talk ab this. When I go to the store it looks like:Always checking my surroundings,is this man following me or are we just buying the same things?Another random man eyeing me.Check out.Get to my truck ASAP. Lock doors. Drive away ASAP
I’m the kind of friend you DON’T want to tell your New Years goals to because you better bet on it I’m going to push you so hard and do everything in my power to help you achieve them!
My dad was trying really hard, as a pilot, to be unimpressed with
#TopGunMaverick
and so my mom, his wife of 35+ years, leaned over at the end scene and said, “Wow! You’re probably the only person in this theater that’s flown a P-51 Mustang!”
Dads ego? 📈😂
I’ve prayed so hard to be at the point where I have the problems I have today. Because every thing you want will have challenges that’ll come with those dreams.
In 2021 and 2022, I read a total of 8 and 7 books respectively. I actually felt like this was so shameful and one of my New Year resolutions was to read more… waaayyy more.
As of tonight, I’m officially 65 books in for 2023.
I broke two cardinal rules of adulting today.
First - I grocery shopped on an empty stomach.
Second - I got more than one bag of groceries and I live on a third floor apartment 😅
I just told a dude I couldn’t video chat because I’m at a “football party” …. But the reality is that I’m watching football with my two dogs and the cat and half time is almost over.
Ever open up your bible and have it just speak to you?
1 John 4:7-12
Because of God and only with God can we have true love. Let us mimic this love in our own lives and demonstrate it to the people surrounding us.
#IASoriginallove
For the last month, I’ve drank my water, worked out no less than 5 times a week, moved to the top 5 on the spin leaderboard, PR’d all my weights, planned my nutrition out and signed up for scary new things.
So today … I treated myself to new Nikes 🖤🤍
I work really hard for my business and for some reason I can handle when the companies bigger than me rip me off, but when it’s the friends copy catting that I’ve poured my heart and soul into helping, it hurts a heck of a lot more.
This morning I walked in on my mom swiping at tears as she geared up her sewing machine to start making surgical masks. We should have been boarding a plane today for my college BFF’s wedding who my parents took in as their own son.
Plans change fast. Hold each other close.
After my boyfriend checked in to urgent care and two days and nights of nursing him, he has an operation soon and I could use some prayers for him and his recovery if you’re the praying kind 😞❤️
I’m fiercely loyal to the most random people. Like you won’t even know that that random msg you sent me saved me from a dark spot 5 yrs ago and I’ve defended you in every conversation against you since.
I wore yellow pants tonight and all the fun having rodeo people started chirping “follow the yellow pant girl” (like yellow brick road) and started following me around… so I felt like one of those surrogate mama ducks with all the ducklings following in line.
To be totally vulnerable .... I cried today because I’m on day 7 of between headache and crippling migraine. Years ago I would have cried because I would’ve had to miss work and anger my boss. Now I’m sad because I fall further behind in work and I’m the only one who can do it.
Fix your hair. Brush yourself off. Go. For. Gold. If I quit every time I failed my resume would be blank, my heart would be empty and my memories would be dull.
Living this week pedal to the metal so all my work is done & I can enjoy Nebraska for the start of wedding season!
I know you're not supposed to talk about money, but the fact that I've made more money in the first 2 months of 2023 compared to the first 6 months of 2022 is such a relief after how trying 2020-2022 was for a small business owner.