Good Food...Great Sayings

Good Food

As you know, eating (good food) is one of the highlights for us on the road. While it's tough to beat mile high blueberry pie in Santa Fe, it would be a shame not to mention outstanding southwest style enchiladas in Tulare! Who knew?

Our friend and a fine artist, Cali Roberson (pictured at her booth) http://www.artbycali.com, joined us in Tulare, CA for the National Stock Horse Association Classic. After some hit-n-miss dinners, we enjoyed a good Italian meal and an even better bottle of wine (yep, cowgirls drink wine...sometimes!). The name of the wine? "Aqua Pumpkin". That's one to remember!

Great Sayings

While there is really no link between them, there is something about good food and a great saying that makes a day (or maybe just an hour) feel right. So, as we go down the road, we remember some of the inpirational sayings that keep us getting back in the saddle each day. Much like a good poem or story told around a camp fire, a great saying can bring a smile, a laugh or that added bit of "grit" to keep you going.

Here are just a few:

The impossible is often the untried.

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Whoever you are. Whatever your dream. You have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.

Time on the road gives you time to think and meet some

Pomona Bound

We are heading down to Pomona in a week or so for the Equine Affaire. Hope you can come see us in Bldg. 7, booth 768 & 769. We will be premiering our new line: Safari Cowgirl (more on that in future blogs). As we look forward to a busy 2010, we are remembering all the great trips we took in 2009, specifically, all the great food we ate on all those trips! We went to New Mexico on a buying trip last summer and had the most amazing blueberry pie in Santa Fe. Oh, that pie! Piled high with blueberries and a fabulous crust - I'm tearing up just thinking about it! Then there was the guacamole, prepared table side, also in Santa Fe - luscious! And up in Jackson, Wyoming we had a great breakfast at Jedidiah's House of Sourdough. Sourdough pancakes, wow! In Los Olivos and Santa Ynez, Ca we had we had some great meals, can't wait to go back this spring. Check out our calendar on the website and come visit us at our booth if you are going to any of the great events we are attending.

From Old Trucks to a New Year

From old trucks to a new year, the cowgirl's are back in the saddle and excited about 2010! By the way...that old truck is soon-to-be a classic. You know, a cowgirl should have a classic old truck. Or, maybe we just have old trucks and we believe their classic! Nevertheless, A Cowgirl's Promise had a good start in 2009 thanks to all those who stopped in the booth or found us online! We finished the year in December with the Monterey Cowboy Poetry & Music Gathering. It was a terrific event and we plan to make it back next year. The end of the year also brought nearly a foot of snow to the foothills. It was beautiful.

So what's next in 2010? Our year kicks off with new products, new events and a whole lot more tales to tell.

Until next time, someone once said: "Success is a journey, not a destination."

A cowgirl once said: "The journey to success is just one wild ride after the other!"

Check out our calendar for upcoming events at acowgirlspromise.com

Old Trucks

We love old trucks, except when they act their age. Julie has this great old truck that we had loaded up with stuff for our booth. It was September and we were headed out to Rancho Murrieta to set up for a 12 day cutting show. So, we started to pull out of the driveway and noticed that there was liquid pouring out beneath the dash down to the floorboard. Unfortunately, I had put my cell phone on the floor of the truck and learned a lesson about cell phones: they don't like antifreeze, which is what the liquid was that was pouring down around my feet. We had a great show anyway, met lots of nice people, and had box seats to some great cutting, which made up for the fact it was one of the hottest weeks of the year.

Great Cowgirl Travels-The Shoe Tree

Blogging is new for us and this, being our second entry (of many more to come); we had to share a story about a tree like no other we've seen.

Since we started A Cowgirl's Promise, we've had the opportunity to travel to some great places. Most recently, we went to Kanab, Utah for the Western Legends Roundup. It was beautiful country and a fun event. Our trip took us on, what we've always heard was, the "loneliest highway in America". Well, it was! Highway 50 through Nevada is a two-lane road through country that seems endless. We drove for miles and didn't pass another car. That was actually nice. Beyond the brush and tumbleweeds, we saw some beautiful horses, a lone coyote, a spectacular golden eagle and

The Shoe Tree.

Yes. There it was....a giant tree filled with hundreds of shoes! Who knew?? It looked like moss falling down off the branches. Shoes of all sizes, all shapes and all colors. Tied together by their laces and swung as high as one could throw. It was a bit of a mess really. But, we'd never seen anything like it.

Not sure whose idea it was or how long it's been there, but someone out in the middle of no where had a sense of humor and an old pair of shoes!

Western Legends Roundup

We will be taking our booth to southern Utah next week for the Western Legends Roundup in Kanab. This is such a beautiful part of the country, where over 100 western movies and TV shows have been filmed. We are looking forward to good music, cowboy poetry and dutch oven cooking! Hope to see you there...