Well, I am back from the show. Still working on a headach, the sun light is too bright.
Groggy from lack of sleep too.
We did not show on Saturday (AMHR show) but came Saturday afternoon with 6 horses. 4 owned or leased by Royal Crescent. 2 of mine. 3 kids, 1 grandmother and lots and lots of STUFF!! Wow, do kids bring STUFF!! It has been a few years since I have had teenagers. I keep forgetting about their STUFF!!
Finally get the trailer unloaded, stalls set up. Time to wash horses.
Got a brief chance to say hello to some forum members as we were taking horses to the wash stalls. Hello again
Sorry I did not have much time to stay and talk.
My poor Affair had what seemed to be an allergic reaction to bug bites last week when I clipped him down and now he has scabby cleared up spots of skin all over his face and back. Dosen't look pretty. Gave him a soothing bath again and put him in his stall with lots of extra groceries. He has shot up 1 inch since the last show. No wonder I have been having trouble keeping weight on him.
Got all of the horses situated, bathed, fed and helped Barb finish clipping down Towney a horse of mine that she is leasing. She just took him last week, and then decided to bring him to the show for experience. Last week he was bairly halter trained.
She and her girls have done a wonderful job of working with Towney. He now trailers, clips, bathes, (of course halters) In a couple of years Towney is going to be an awesome driving horse.
After all of the work, I took Barb and her family to their hotel and went back to the barn to finish up with my two horses. Then climbed into my trailer at 12:00 to catch some sleep. HAH!! It is such a bear to get old. My body hurt so bad, that I could not find a comfortable spot to sleep.
Plus the AMHR portion of the show did not get over till about 12:00AM and all of the AMHR people went home after the show. It did not get quiet till well after 2:00 AM. Then someone had left their dog in their truck so that it would not disutb their sleep
The dog barked the rest of the night so I did not get any sleep.
Up at 5:00 to feed horses and go pick Barb and her clan up at the hotel. Show starts at 8:00 and I was in the second class, Barb in the first calss. By this time I was a walking zombie.
Barb did really well in her first class with a 2 year old filly she is leasing from me. Riverdance's Monarch Surprise. Prize was only leased about 3 weeks ago and was fresh out of pasture before then. She took a 1st, 2nd and I am not sure what the other was. Judge 2 was definatly picking different from the other two judges. He is a quarter horse/paint person. I will leave it for her to say what she won with what horse, as I really do not know, but I know she and the kids were happy with what they got.
My first horse, Riverdance's Wind In The Willow. Tthe first judge did not like her too much. Perhaps lthe blue eyes disturbed her, she gave her I think 4ths and 5ths. The 2nd judge gave her a second (blue eyed pinto) and the 3rd judge gave her a first. Then she won a Grand Champion under the 3rd judge. Next was Affair. Poor Affair who had bug bite scabs all over his face. (still do not know where he got all of those bites, the barn has a fly spray system. All I can think of is an alergic reation, or perhaps a fungas infection? Anyway, I bought something to treat him for it if it is a fungas infection) He won under judge 1 in both of his classes, I think 4ths or 5ths, under judge 2 and 2nds under judge 3.(ugly scabs, underweight and all. I was really surprised and happy)
I was finished at 12:00,(first year I had no driving horse, since he is sold) but Barb and her clan were just getting started. I cleaned and packed up my stuff, went shopping for a while at the horse store there at the show grounds
and helped Jeannie Krug get her stuff packed up and out when she left. Then I went back to the trailer for a nap. That lasted about 30 minutes when Barb's daughter went looking for me and woke me up. Back to the show to watch. I know that Barb and her kids won lots of other classes, but too groggy to remember in what. Show was over at 6:30. We pakced up and headed on out to home.
Parked the trailer in the driveway, got the horses out and went inside to bed. I am typing this now while I wait for Barb and her kids to wake up and help with the clean up chores and unpacking and repacking to their trailer.
Sorry I was too busy or groggy to spend more time socializing. Hard to do when one is doing all that work for just a one day show. So I will say hello, great show, and see you at the next one.
I need to go back to bed!!
Hey Tami,
Saw you were posting the same time I was. It was nice to finally meet you too. I did not really get a chance to talk with eveyone. It is hard to do a 1 day show. I was so out of it on Sunday with no sleep and a body that felt at least 80 years old. Anyway, I did have some pictures of Willow taken and Barb had some of Prize, with their wins, but they did not come out. I bought my camera to take some, but was too harried and tired to bother. I will have to get you pictures later.