Laureate Shelties Blog
A bit of this, a bit of that...with a lot of free spirits.
Last night, we hosted our annual Xmas party. What a difference a year makes...check out the snow and ice from
last year's party. Our long-time good friends (since grade school in some cases) Georges and Sylvie, Pierre and Annemarie, and Guy and Lise, were able to join us once again. This year, we were happy to be able to reconnect with dear friends Jean and Carol, who Pete met thirty years ago. It is because of Jean that Pete and I met twenty five years ago just about to the day. Life changes and moving to other cities led to a loss of contact; in fact the last time I saw them was thirteen years ago. I know this because their dog "Gabby" is that age. He is by Santana out of Dream West and was a gift to their daughter, Pascal, who is Pete's goddaughter. But like all good relationships, it didn't matter how much time had passed since we saw each other last, we just picked it up where we left off. It was a very special evening of reminiscing, laughter, lots of food and sincere friendship.
The other morning I was awake early and watched the turkeys in the trees as they woke up. I wondered when they would get 'out of bed' as it was close to 7 am and they seemed to be awake, stretching and moving around. All it took was one brave fellow to decide it was light enough and flew down to the low lands and then soon one by one they flew out of the trees. I went and had a look as there seemed to be more than ever, and sure enough, this is the largest group we've seen. I counted 57 of them...good thing Thanksgiving is over in Canada!
We had a good weekend at the Ottawa Kennel Club Show. We took our two littermates who are six and a half months old. Mayer took WD the first two days, so has 3 points. On Friday Miley (pictured) took WB for her first two points.
Saturday our lovely little blue gal Stormy who is just starting to coat up, took WB/BW and BOS over a Special to finish her Championship. We bumped her up for Sunday's show and she took BOS again. This is her at the show on Sunday with her very serious handler!
We had an incident when the loudspeaker went off on Sunday throwing our babies into a panic. Miley gathered herself back, but Mayer was undone. Hopefully he'll get his confidence back, as he'd been doing so well up to that point. Miley took RWB and went on to win Best Puppy in Group under Les Rogers.
She showed like a trooper and rose to the occasion and went on to win Best Puppy in Show!
Here she is on the final exam under judge Butch MacDonald. She didn't let down for a minute...we are so proud of our young hopeful.
We are pleased to confirm that "Valerie" is in whelp to Junior (Ch Lynphil's Solstice). Puppies due around December 10th...tri-factored sables and pure for sables.
We are looking forward to this litter. Valerie is the dam of our ASSA Futurity 12-18 month and 12-18 month sable and white class winner "Ch Laureate Jivara". Junior is linebred on the beautiful CSSA National Breed winner BISS Am/Can Ch Lynphil's Classy Lil Chassis ROMC.
Frosty morning with a skin of ice on the water.
Busy day gearing up for the
Ottawa show on the weekend (held in Kemptville ON).
Last night, we hosted our annual Xmas party. What a difference a year makes...check out the snow and ice from last year's party. Our long-time good friends (since grade school in some cases) Georges and Sylvie, Pierre and Annemarie, and Guy and Lise, were able to join us once again. This year, we were happy to be able to reconnect with dear friends Jean and Carol, who Pete met thirty years ago. It is because of Jean that Pete and I met twenty five years ago just about to the day. Life changes and moving to other cities led to a loss of contact; in fact the last time I saw them was thirteen years ago. I know this because their dog "Gabby" is that age. He is by Santana out of Dream West and was a gift to their daughter, Pascal, who is Pete's goddaughter. But like all good relationships, it didn't matter how much time had passed since we saw each other last, we just picked it up where we left off. It was a very special evening of reminiscing, laughter, lots of food and sincere friendship.
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