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January
31, 2014 -- I'm typing this while flying from New Orleans to Atlanta (then on to
Louisville) for a couple of days at home in Lexington before flying back to
Florida on Sunday and teaching Groom Elite 101 at Gulfstream Park on
Monday-Tuesday. The past two weeks started out "business as usual" and ended
"anything but"! While teaching Groom Elite 101 at GP on January 19-20 I made arrangements with assistant trainer Ralph Canatanese to teach the tacking class of GE 101 on January 27-28 since I was to be in Louisiana. After class on Wednesday (20th) I flew to California for the National HBPA convention. I knew I was on the Benefit Providers committee for a "10 minute Groom Elite Update" and was prepared to do that in the "breakout session" at 9:00 AM Thursday. Just after breakfast I learned that I was not reporting in the breakout section but in the "round up" session at 10:30 before the entire conference. Still only 10 minutes, but instead of in a smaller side room I would be on the "big stage" and needed a Power Point show and made a last minute "programming decision". I put together the "update" in the first 4 minutes then took 8 minutes to give a "leadership lesson" using principles taught on the first day of Groom Elite 101. (Yes I went 2 minutes over my allotted time, but I was well "under" the amount that other presenters went over. I spent the rest of the meeting confirming dates for classes and getting commitments from several HBPA's to consider a Groom Elite class in 2014. I enjoyed 1/2 of our "day at Santa Anita" on Saturday afternoon as a chest/sinus congetstion/cold nagged at me the entire trip and I decided to retire to my room and get some rest.
On Sunday morning I flew to Louisiana via Southwest Airlines nonstop. Before I got on the plane I received a text from my Mom in Baton Rouge saying that the local WAFB television was reporting the Jetson Center for Youth had been closed and juvenile offenders moved to locastion in North and South Louisiana. Jetson is where our Juvenile Justice vocational progarm and retired racehorse program was to be housed. I spent Monday getting information about that closure and meeting with officials at Northshore Community College where I was to teach a Teacher/Volunteer/Staff workshop Tuesday & Wednesday. Thursday's third and final day was to be at Jetson. In addition to the surprising news from Jetson, a major winter storm was moving rapidly toward Louisiana and school officials had decided by noon on Monday that Northshore (and most of South Louisiana) was going to be closed Tuesday and Wednesday. So, in our Monday meeting we decided to postpone the Teacher workshop until March 20-21. Barry McNabb, welding instructor at NTCC and a horseman, and I went over rough drawings of barn plans for a Equestrian Studies and Veterinary Technology teaching clinic for which nearly $100K in donations has been received. I will teach a Equine Grooming Fundamentals class (Basic Grooming 099) at Northshore March 17-19 immediately preceeding the Teacher training workshop.
The winter strom came in as promised and South Louisiana closed down for two and a half days, I10, I12 and I55 plus other bridges and the Ponchatrain Causeway leading out of New Orleans were closed due to ice and the city came to a stand still as did much of South Louisiana. LSU's basketball game with Kentucky went on as scheduled Tuesday night (since it was an ESPN nationally televised match) and the Fighting Tigers pulled off an 87-82 upset. I spent most of the three ice days sleeping late and resting in the afternoon as the cold continued to linger. Now that I am home (Jan 31) I am feeling betting with a lingering, nusiance cough aggravating me. I fly to Florida on Sunday and will wathc the Super Bowl from there Sunday night and teach Groom Elite 101 at Gulfstream Park Monday and Tuesday. I was originally scheduled to teach at Wateree in South Carolina Wednesday-Friday, but that correctional facility has been under a flue quarantine for 3 weeks and it was extended through Tuesday with another case discovered this past Thursday.
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