Preparations

Steven started preparing yesterday, he cleaned out the living quarter horse trailer and started packing. When I finally got home yesterday there is a stack of water buckets up against the barn that seemed to reach to the top of the barn. With 8 horses going we will need a plethora of buckets. The release forms have been printed, each person handling or on a horse must sign one before we can get our packets. Today Braelyn is coming over but once she is picked up Sam's will be visited for a 50 pound bag of popcorn, 2 gallons of oil, 205 gallon sized plastic bags for the cotton candy and dog food. We are getting low of that very important commodity. The sugar for the cotton candy, the popcorn salt and bags and hopefully the cotton candy sticks (if we have any) need to be loaded before we put in the machines. A table needs to be found and loaded. Why that was typed is the table we usually use is in use right now, this computer is sitting on it and Mark will not want us using it this year.
Speaking of Steven he was the person that cleaned out Raven's shelter while we were in California. He also moved in round bales for Ribbon and Raven. We need to thank him for going over and above.
According to Philip I need to take down a tripod. Now we don't have one of these, but we have been one of the few asked to video tape the evening performance. Phone calls or a mass email needs to be sent out to the family to see if anyone would have one that would work for my video camera.
Yesterday when I arrived Karin had three of the mares in the arena and was asking Zalena to side pass. Zalena had never been taught that but was getting pretty decent cross overs.

The camera I'm using doesn't have the burst option like the one left on the plane so I was pleased to at least get one usable picture of Zalena.