I made the trip up to the Barony of Rivenstar (around Lafayette, Indiana) over the weekend to participate in what was, to the best of my knowledge the first ever Midrealm Equestrian Symposium. Let me just say the trip was well worth the long haul up that including being stuck in traffic for two hours along the way with horses in tow. There was literally something for everyone, from the most senior marshals to the very new beginning riders. Many thanks to the folks that got this wonderful event organized, ran it, and/or hosted it!
A couple of big equestrian happenings in the next few weeks here in the Midrealm and I wanted to make sure everyone got the information about those events that needed them. Also a few other notes down in there somewhere. I will be sharing this information elsewhere as well so that everyone knows.
My apologies for not getting back to this theme of covering the events at the recent Gulf Wars XIX sooner. Life has indeed been busy. Anyway, my first full day on site was a busy one and entailed more work then anything else. Most of it is really not all that exciting, but it does merit mention here. It gives a good insight to the level of commitment involved in having horses on site at an event like this while so many other things are happening as well.
Sunday March 14, 2010 I awoke nice and early, somewhere between 4:30 and 5:00a.m. It was an easy awake given my excitement level for heading south to the event known as Gulf Wars. I call the day Zero Day coming from both my background in IT (related to patches) and even more especially the Zero Hour DC comic universe series. Bottom line is the time at which all projects have to be finished that are going to be, truck loaded, horses booted and in the trailer, and a VERY LONG drive.
I have this thing about lists, it gets me organized and a bit focused about accomplishing things on them in general. I have not had one concerning this kind of stuff and it shows. So, I decided to put one together. There are three major points looking forward that have things I need to get done during and/or for. So I am trying to break it down that way and I plan to come back and do check marks or color coding or something when I get things done and make some additional notes of it. May even do a few blogs of somethings with photos as progress occurs. Do keep in mind it is my list, for my feeble mind so some of these are like well duh – go do it and it would be done, but sometimes I just got to do things my way. Anyway, this is the current list I am working from for Gulf Wars – though I will likely increase it as it time goes along for the next few weeks and I think of other things.
