This weekend I attended my first live show since the shutdown in March 2020. Melissa Hart hosted a Michigan Show Series show in Hastings, MI. This was the fifth Halloween Show. Showers and guests wore masks so it was tricky to blow dust off the models. The Holiday Inn Express was very annoying and canceled my reservation due to an IT problem on their end. (They "updated" my credit card expiration date, address and phone number to old ones. Therefore the credit card declined and they called me on an old landline in Idaho. When I didn't answer, they sold my room to someone else.) I ended up staying in Grand Rapids, where the hotel kindly held a room for me without a credit card. But never fear! I made it back to Hastings in time for the ponies to get unpacked. The judges had six rings going at one time, so the showers were busy. Some were new, others had come back to the hobby after many years, and everyone else was out of practice. Draft and pony breeds were a delight: A