No, not that way. I mean really: get your mind out of the gutter! This is after all a (mostly) family-oriented blog. How about PG-13? Alright, never mind. In any case we seem to have two modes on this farm when it comes to the offseason here between the months of November and March (at…
It just feels like the good old days again, very fitting for the North American’s 10th anniversary actually! For years the check-in day of the NAAS was infamously plagued by bad weather of one sort or another. There was nothing quite like doing health and color checks on 1200+ drowned rats. It always put exhibitors…
So by my calculations when we call it quits for the year in early November, our 2011 show season will have conservatively added up to some 21 days away from home. That’s 21 days either at shows themselves or traveling to or from them. As anyone that spends much time away from the comforts of…
Can you smell the excitement?! I suspect the primary thing Kim and Jen can smell right now is the 5 months of dust coming off of all of our show supplies as they are brought out of storage at the Main Barn. Thank goodness for Swiffers and air compressors. All the show supplies – both…
Apparently King Winter took issue with my cheek yesterday and here on the second day of the new season delivered a parting shot of his own. In the normal course of things a spring storm is something which we would have taken in stride. Alas, I was in a slightly awkward position at the time…
No, really. As of 5 minutes ago (2/25 at 7:45 EST) there were fewer than 20 stalls left to fill for the entire show. Things had started off a little bit slowly but then in the past 10 days or so there has been a real push. For those who have been hemming and hawing…
