b'table of contentsJanuary 2023 from the Publisher5Broomsticks and Horses THANK YOU GENERATION 9Lee Anderson: Did You Know, OR EDUCATIONWe just finished, I would say, the biggest In the Old West. giving time of the entire year. How did you 10Kennadee Riggs Crowned Miss express gratitude for what you received? Rodeo America 2023 13 It seems like many compare everything 10 11COVER FEATURE: Scottsdale Arabian generationally these days. However, I dont think thank you is a generation thing but instead an education thing. Were you taught Horse Show 2023to say thank you? Do you believe a thank you is important? 13John Samsill: From the Back of the Box Do you expect a thank you when you do something or give something? How do you feel when someone 14 Cowgirl With A Pen: You Know You Live says thank you? Do you have to be reminded to say thank you? Do you forget to say thank in a Ranch House When.you, then remember it later and just think its 17Randy Miller: Your Constitutional Rights too late so forget it? My mom was a stickler for saying thank you. Just saying thank you 1996.3 Real Country Upcoming Concerts was not enough. You had to hand write a 19 20Bridgette Crosby: The January Garden thank you note, as well, and both verbal and written forms were something that she firmly 2624AZ Road Trip: Jerome 24 believed in.Crossword / Sudoku / Cowboy Comic My cousin Mark loves to work in his wood shop and on his 28Arizona Real Country Equine Supply Source lathe he created a couple of handmade ink pens for my wife and mailed them to her as a gift. Notice who it was that received 30 Running the Race: How Does Competition the gift.She instantly wrote a thank you card and put it in the Equate to Life mail. That should have been sufficient right? NO. I came home, asked if she thanked Mark for the pens and she said the card was 32DIY: New Year Hacks already in the mail. At that, I said you need to call him as well. 34Cowboy Wisdom: Trust and Faith She picked up the phone and made the thank you call. While speaking with him she could hear how excited he was to know 38Bob Boze Bell: True West Moments that she appreciated the pens and she could hear how much it 44Bill Roberts: Lawman Billy Breakenridge Was meant to him to be able to make the pens for her.Law in Phoenix and Tombstone Now should you expect a thank you from anyone you give a gift to or do 47Jim & Bobbi Jeen Olsons Collectors Corner: something extra special for? My thinking The Allure of PrisonMade 44 is that if you are doing or giving, to get a thank you, you are doing it for the 49A View of the Zoo: Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium and wrong reason. Just the word gift means Safari Park Hosts 2022 Zoological Association of America that it comes from you and your heart without any reciprocation needed. Maybe to some that doesnt make sense.I believe a 51Justin Legler: Happy New Year, Is It the 4th of July thank you is very important and should be part of your DNA. I Already, Time to Change This Ships Course think all of us like to hear those two words. Those words usually put a smile on someones face, its a personal sense of pride, it 52Glendale Equestrian Ride Report makes them feel like they want to do more and be around the type of person that knows how to say thank you.54Alan Rockman: The Story of CrazyHorse, Part 2 So is it a generational or an educational thing that teaches you the courtesy and the ability to say thank you to someone. 60 96.3 Country Cookin: Shania Twain Young and old alike, I have found, forget and dont think to say 62Charity of the Month: Phoenix thank you. You are never too old or too young to say thank you. So I think it is education that teaches you manners. You may Herpetological Society 49 actually experience excitement from saying thank you for what you receive.67Arena DirectoryTHANK YOU, for reading Arizona 60 69Our 4-H Story and How It Shaped Real Country Magazine and if you Our Childrens Future listen to our radio station 96.3 Real 71 News from Copper State Peruvian Country you will hear me verbally thank you, every weeknight at 6 pm Horse Club on Dotties Country Memories. That 72 Taking Care of Business: is a one hour show that for the last 6 years, since my moms death, I thank her by playing the greatest Special Advertiser Section country music from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s ever made and go down memory lane which she loved to do. Yes, she educated me 74 Advertiser Index on the art of THANK YOU.75Classified Ads69 76January 2023 Equine Event Calendar 77 Mike Barna, Publisher 77 January Events Around the State ArizonaRealCountryMagazine@gmail.com4 January 2023'