Bluegrass State of Mind...

Soon, these boxes will
be competitor packets!

Okay, this post could be interesting because I haven't yet had my morning caffeine!  Good morning from the Pony Club National Office, where I have set up camp to prepare for Day One of Championships move-in!  In the Board Room, there are boxes and boxes of information just dying to be stuffed into competitor packets.  The Bookstore is being packed up to move to the Trade Fair area in the covered arena.  Wayne Quarles is trying to talk to 4 different people at the same time using 4 separate phones to relay early arrival stabling information.

Festival has arrived.

Officials will have a briefing at 10 am today, so I'm pulling together my last notes for the discipline Chiefs to make sure that Horse Management judging is as uniform as possible across Championships.  It's these last few hours of pre-rally preparations that always seem to make me jittery...

"Did I forget something?"
"Do the horses seem to be happy?"
"Oh no, oh no...those are NOT flip-flops in the barn!"
"Oh geez, what if I don't know the answer to a competitor question?"
"Where are the keys to my car??"

Then something happens...kind of like when I kick my horse out of the cross-country start box and I just ride.  I realize that, yes, in fact I *do* have a reasonable answer or solution for most questions, that yes, most of the horses and people are happy, and OH!  My keys are in my pocket.

And if there's anything that I can't fix, well...there's always duct tape.

Festival officially begins in 28 hours.  NBD.

Perk of the "Overall" job - pins for ALL Disciplines!