Details, Details....

The weather has been rather damp and windy and so the grass is growing like crazy and its far too wet to cut it - sure hope it dries off soon, so we can cut it before we go away.
Next week David is taking Thomas and Susan, our 2 Danish beagles (on loan from Gold Line Kennels) back to Annette in Denmark - Thanks Annette, for letting them come to the USA to stay with us. We enjoyed having them. And bit later I am flying to Poland to deliver Thomas' son to his new home - he grew too big to show in the USA, so he is Europe bound.
David and I will then spend a few days in Poland, with Erik's new owner, showing us some of Warsaw.

Lewiston, Idaho

We are off to Lewiston tomorrow, for a 4 day weekend cluster of shows. With only one dog to show, and late judging times, it should be a very restful few days - might even get to see the Snake river (pictured above)....so watch this space.

Weekend in Georgia

I headed off to Atlanta last Wednesday for a 4 day weekend of shows - judging. It was held at the Georgia National Fairgrounds - which is a super location for a show - lots of air conditioned buildings, acres of grass and events for everyone - Lure Coursing, Agility, Obedience and Conformation. Great company, great dogs and just a super time was had by all.
We had dinner each night at Henderson Village, which is a collection of 19th century homes and cottages situated on 18 bucolic acres in the heart of Central Georgia and located at what was once a thriving stagecoach intersection.
They have this wonderful restaurant "Langston House" there, where we had a superb meal each night, with different dining companions each evening. The restaurant was full mainly with dog show people each night. Its well worth the trip, if you are in the area.

All the shows were well organized and the North Georgia Hound Show, was very well run and it was my pleasure to judge many lovely hounds - my placements were

Our New Toys

As regular readers of the Blog will remember, I have expressed dismay with our GPS unit - so we bought a LOWER priced TomTom, to replace the Garmin and you know what, it works better - satellite access is almost instant and not once has it led me astray, I LIKE it.


This week we decided to get a new sink, as I was fed up with the old sink staining and being hard to keep clean, so we got this cast iron sink, which has a low center divider - this makes it look huge. Whilst shopping we saw that you could now get a garbage disposal to use with a septic tank and so we bought that also.
The amazing thing is how quiet to garbage disposal is, you have to really listen to know that it's running. This is not my experience with the ones in many other homes.
So we are very happy with our new purchases.

Videos from Spain

I have finally put together some of the video from our trip to Sevilla, Spain.
We spent one afternoon wandering around the Alcazar which is an old palace surrounded by magnificent gardens. You can read more about the Alcazar here


Then I have finally managed to upload the edited video and hopefully everyone will be able to see it. Click here
this is followed by a continuation of our exploration of the grounds and other rooms. I really magnificent palace and so well preserved. Second part - click here

There is more to come - but will leave that for another day...........

Home Again and feeling great!

Its good to be home. Spain and England were wonderful and we really enjoyed the trip. I am just starting to work on sorting out all of the photos from the trip. The pictures actually go quicker than the videos....so we will start with the photos. We have a few from Sevilla and then the rest are from our day tour to the White Village town of Ronda, which took us to a couple of wineries along the way (I don't think they do great wine in this area!) and then some pictures from our walk through Ronda.

An upsetting night

For David, an unpleasant night as he got food poisoning and suffered! Don't know what caused it as we ate the same thing- except I did not eat the olives....
So while David recouped this AM I took the open air tourist bus around Sevilla and got to see more of this beautiful city.
We then flew back to London this afternoon and are overnighting at the Marriott at the airport before returning home tomorrow.


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