Wow what a great season we have had! We would like to thank everyone for coming out and participating in this season’s events. We had a lot of new faces and old ones we haven’t seen in a while. There were a lot of people helping each other, rooting for each other, and forging new friendships. Everyone should pat themselves on the back because we have seen more and more people working together and helping new people out and making them feel welcome than we have seen in a few years. As a board we try and do this but this year the club has come together and everyone has helped!
Another thing we have noticed this season is the skill level of everyone has greatly improved! In years past we had a handful of teams even able to get all 3 in before time was up. Now we have most of the teams getting all 3 in and usually in under 60 sec., wow! We have had a lot of times come in around the 30 sec. mark too! At the final penning in the team draw jackpot the winner and runner up was divided by less than 1 sec. Second place was Dick, Juliann, and Joe with a time of 47.96 and the winner was Gary, Karen and Wayne with a time of 47.07. This was all done with a stubborn set of cattle to boot. We have also noticed that the skill level in the new teams have improved much quicker than years past. We would like to credit all the comradery we have seen this year.
As usual the cattle were great again this season, if you see Van around make sure and thank him. He has been a great cattle supplier for our events for the last few years and has consistently brought nice fresh cattle each and every time. While some of us would like to curse him when they are a little too fresh, they are fresh none the less, and really do we want to get that picky? If the cattle came trained would we really get better! On the subject of cattle, we would like to thank everyone that has helped collar and un-collar cattle and helped with setup and teardown this season. We have had more help this year and the result was getting everything done quicker and those that helped weren’t completely worn out before the day even started. All the help has been great and even more appreciated. Thankyou to the great office volunteers that has made signups go smoothly and very quick!
We look forward to seeing everyone again this fall for the 2012-2013 season. We have 2 new board members for that season (DeeDee and Renee) and we know it will be just as great as this season was. Please check the website late summer for the season dates. If you are not already on our mailing list please sign up on this site, as Juliann will send out an email once the dates are set.
If anyone has any ideas for the site, the club, the pennings, and/or anything, please let one of your board members know. Remember that this is your club and everything we do started as someone’s idea. That is the only way we can improve things for everyone.
Personally I would like to thank Linda, Kathy, and DeeDee for all the help with writing articles for this website. Without you this site wouldn’t be what it is!
Speaking of the website, it will be down for a couple of weeks this summer while I install major updates that the site needs, and I will also redesign the site so we have a new look for next season. So please be patient as I will have it back up before we start again!