Horemans International Loft
Bill "The Book" Richardson
Email address:
book@ehoremans.com
Updated Introduction (06-23-08):
An excellent weekend at the Slidell Racing Pigeon Club of Slidell Louisiana
Thanks to the hard work of the membership of the Slidell Racing Pigeon Club, the grading sessions, seminar and auction were a very big success. This is a super group of people, and although these events are always a lot of work, I still managed to have a great time! The only real disappointment during this event occurred when there was a truck rollover on I-10, some problems occured on the causeway, and there was a fatality on I-12, essentially blocking all routs from New Orleans to the Slidell club. However, even with these problems there was quite a turnout.
The grading included a private grading session and a grading session for the membership in the Lafayette area, and two days of grading in the Slidell area. While 1,000 pigeons is a lot of pigeons, this really only worked out to about 250 a day, which allowed for a more pleasant place. It is not often that I can afford to work at this pace simply because it makes it difficult to cover expenses and make a decent profit for my time and effort.
While I was grading pigeons, the women of the Slidell Club provided onlookers with a wonderful variety of southern cooking. Later that evening, they also provided a very nice dinner for those that were there to attend the auction and seminar. Once everyone had been well fed, the auction began. To be honest, I was both pleased and disappointed with the results of this auction. On the positive side, the pigeons averaged $1,235 a pigeon (which is pretty darn good considering the economic conditions), and on the negative side, I didn't win any of the bids, and I was really hoping to bring several of these pigeons back home. I received a number of positive comments about the pigeons, and a number of fanciers got involved in the bidding process.
This was followed by a two hour seminar, which thanks to Karen Clifton and Mo Williams, is the fastest that I have ever completed this speech. With 75 bulleted slides, they both had their work cut out for them. During this period, I commented at length on many of the more important points. We got a later start than we had hoped for, and because this speech requires a great deal of attention by the attendees, I think we were all pretty tired at the end. In spite of this, I still received many positive comments about the speech.
I really want to thank those who attended and supported this fantastic event, and I hope that we can do this again sometime!
Book
I am going to leave the pedigrees up on this site for the rest of this week just in case some of the purchasers want to see something about their pigeons. For those that did purchase something, please copy what you need because I will be taking it down by next week.
Article Editing by Karen
I would like to also mention that I have been using the editing services of one of my coworkers for my recent articles in the Digest. Her name is Karen, and she has done a wonderful job for me. I am mentioning this because I think that some fanciers would like to write, but they don't have anyone to review their work. If you are one of these people, contact Karen and I think that you will find that her prices for editing articles are reasonable. By the way, because I make so many changes, it is not practical to have her to edit my site, so if you are finding mistakes herein, she had nothing to do with it!
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