2011 FCC - Living in a Barn

The FCC show is held at the MSU Pavilion which is a really nice facility for showing - the barn is connected to the indoor arena and the whole place is heated. You can actually drive your truck and trailer through the barn to unload if you get there early enough which makes that job a whole lot easier.  The only bad part about it is that the camp sites are really far from the barn and because this is the end of October, it's cold out.  And usually rainy too.  This all means that it's easier to just stay in the barn as much as possible except for sleeping.  For this show, the 3 girls showing get two tack stalls.  One is shared by Sandhya and Sheri and then Madison gets one but shares it with the "kitchen".

This is all her "stuff" including saddles, bridles, clothes, boots, etc.  It's organized chaos.

This side is the "kitchen".  We have my 1981 college refrigerator tucked under the table, crock pot, hot pot, electric griddle, and plenty of coolers and tubs of good.  The ShowSheen shares space with the bread.

We manage to eat pretty good at these shows with sloppy joes, casseroles, fajitas, soups, etc.  If you can heat it up or cook it in a crock pot or on a griddle, we eat it!  This show Sheri even made us an apple pie!