Day 18: Monday, January 14
Countdown to Kentucky Round-Up

What's Kentucky Round-Up?

Ground Zero:  My Desk

Today we got confirmation of another sponsor: Tarter Gates.  Actually to be honest, the deal is not quite sealed, since we still need to negotiate some benefits.  But I'm optimistic that we can reach an agreement.  Tarter is a good company -- I wrote about them before in this blog... Kentucky Proud!

I opened the newspaper this morning and saw our article about Kentucky Round-Up on the front page of Business Monday in the Lexington Herald-Leader.  Janet Patton wrote it, and she has been good about keeping the ball rolling to get it published. There is nothing that makes a cup of coffee taste better than when you are reading the paper with coffee in hand, and see your event highlighted. Thank you Janet!

Our billboard design for Northern KY (I-471) is almost complete.  Juggling around John Michael Montgomery's head with a our horse cartoon-- and some words... how much can a person take in while driving down the interstate?   Very little, it seems - but just enough, I hope.

We are mailing free tickets to elementary schools, but that has turned out to be more difficult than we thought.  Some need to see everything and fill out a form to get approval.  But others just say 'SURE, send the tickets!'. And no one -- well just one -- answered any emails about it.  So Kelsea is on the phone for hours tracking down the right person.

Tomorrow we start mailing out posters to members.  If you want a poster, just email me and I'll put one (or two, or three) in the mail to you. We want them plastered everywhere...!

And --- MY DESK IS A MESS!  Over Christmas holidays I came in while the office was closed to clean my desk and start sorting through files that have been building up for 6 years at the KHC office.  I got about halfway through the file drawers, but did manage to put my desk in excellent neat condition.  Now I am back to Ground Zero (am I allowed to use that term or is it reserved for the New York Memorial to 9/11 victims?).  Well, where ever I and my desk are, it is not a pretty sight.

See you tomorrow.