[RC] AERC Convention Behind the Table - TypeF \(Jackie Floyd\)
We made it home over Donner Pass from Reno after 14
hours ... normally a 3-hour trip. I don't care to repeat that one! White-out
conditions and not enough traction with our rig made for one very scary trip
home for me.
Just wanted to thank everyone who came by the Type
F booth and purchased 2007 Supplements to my Guide and Angie McGhee's products.
We had a great turnout at convention, despite the weather and fantastic response
to our "wares." Angie is all excited about doing new designs for greeting cards
now ... we sold out of every notecard set we had. And we sold all the XL shirts
and most of the Larges. Where were all the size Small riders?????
Also wanted to thank everyone who came by voicing
concerns about Tank and asking how he's doing. I was beginning to feel like I
was going to have to hold my own "talk" at convention, I repeated the story so
many times. It really shows what a great big family endurance is.
So, I've been having computer problems ... darned
thing takes an hour and a half to start up until it finally lets go of things to
work. So I got the bright idea to clean out the 8,000 messages in my "sent"
folder, the 6,000 messages in my various in folders, etc., etc., thinking that
might be one of my problems. And it just dawned on me that I put the
convention sale online last week to be good until yesterday the 25th,
without ever looking in my RideCamp email folder before deleting everything. So
if there was anyone who was looking to take advantage of it, you'll need to
email me privately since I stupidly erased everything. D'oh!
After spending two days with Angie and her daughter
Josie, I've been thinking in "southern" a lot ... having only conversed on the
phone over the last couple of years, it was really nice to meet face to face.
And Josie is a blast. Angie will have to watch out in the drawing
department .... she's darned good herself.
Karen Chaton and I worked it out so our booths
would back up to each other, thinking we'd get a chance to peek through the
curtain once in awhile and visit. We got a few peeks in, but we were both so
busy that conversations were really short. Granite Chief was her boot
demonstration horse and walked his way up the freight ramp to the second floor
and camped out in the EasyCare booth with his butt facing my chair. He was such
a good boy, never spooked about anything and at times looked pretty darned
bored. I would be talking to someone and this "phphphphphph" would interrupt the
conversation and it would startle me because I'd forgotten he was there. I don't
know too many horses that you could just walk in and out of a second story
building several times a day, and be so layed back about it. What a
guy!
It was really great seeing some of the RideCamp
faces, too! Hope you all had a great time at convention!
