Wow, it's been awhile

I have been scarce here lately. Here at the Borzoi Nationals in Lawrence, KS our happy dances for the week CJ (FC Avalon WNS Rising Sun SC, FCH) won the national LGRA meet , woohoo! Lots of nice ribbons and prizes for that. He was also the highest scoring Field Champion there too. CJ was also 3rd in FCH stake at the ASFA trial there too. I was kind of surprised he did not make the cut in the BBE class but I am not good at predicting dog shows. Tory ( DC Avalon Victoria Cross SC FCH) won the Veterans Stake at the BCOA ASFA trial and gave the open a run for the money in the BOB runoff, She was completely ignored in BOB but after watching that judge for three days, I knew there wouldn't be anything we entered under her that would be of even a vague interest. I will say the judge was very easy with the dogs and kind to all. RTee (Avalon Artemis FCH) who got totally screwed at the ASFA trial in prelims by the lure operator and then had a super high final score was 2nd of 4 in Novice class at the national to the bitch that was eventually RWB there so that was a nice surprise. Py (DC Avalon Victorian Pyre SC RE FCH GRC RTD2 TDI TT ) won the stud dog class at the futurity and was pretty much ignored the rest of the week. No surprises there His youngun Tanforan whose registered name I cannot get right (Oxota Avalon Tanforan at Starswift ) picked up his CGC, a 3rd in his futurity class and did make the cut in 12-18. Thank you to his owner for letting him stay for the stud dog class and letting me show him. Another youngun Myka (Avalon Oxota Ruidoso) was also third in her futurity class before getting ignored the rest of the week. Maira (CH Avalon Highland Mary GRC FCH CGC) was 4th 10 + regular veteran bitches class, woohoo and even better I got to see her mom Athena/Katya who is over 14 years old ! So put another one in the books, I'm so glad I made it and got to see my friends Josie, Debb, roomed with Leo, Doug, Suzanne, Diana E., Mary C. , Lynn Wall , Susan V, etc. So many peopl,e I don't get to see very often and they are all such grand folk. God bless everyone who helps get this together. Took 5 dogs through the eye clinic, 4 through the heart clinic, Diana bought me a beautiful bracelet with a handpainted Borzoi on it , won lots of neat things. The hot tub at the pool made it a REAL VACATION for me. It was awesome. Now back to the real world, work Monday, LONG ASS drive tomorrow too.

Stuck in Nashville

OK, I am stuck at a convention here in Nashvegas, it does beat 8 hours with 20 inmates though so that is why I volunteered for it. Unfortunately the Maxwell house won't let us check in our rooms yet. The clothing I wore I almost have to strip off everything just to go to the bathroom (I knew there were a lot of reasons it had been awhile since I've worn leather), and I shouldn't have had that last coffee.

Last weekend the LGRA meet was much more fun for me and the dogs than the dogshow would have been although I almost didn't get out of the state of TN due to panic gas buyers and not being able to find anywhere to gas the van up. Finally found somewhere at four freaking dollars a gallon and then I was outa there.

CJ surprised me he is completely mad about the jackalure and straight racing. I sure wish there was more of it around here. Vger and Beckett also had a good time but we found there is no way to keep a muzzle on Beckett for even a few seconds. He broke TWO of my Halemars so I bought some heavy duty plastic basket muzzles and he couldn't break those but he did manage to get them off and still get out of the box on time so that is probably the end of his racing. Everyone freaks out over dogs getting out of their muzzles even though he wasn't the only one that kept doing it, it isn't worth hearing all the whining. Need to run the boys every weekend so they will be in shape for OFC in November though.