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Poland ( Day 2 - Friday )

Kate collected David and I and took us to explore the "old Warsaw" which we walked all day and the weather was perfect - a mix of cloud and sun, just perfect for sightseeing. There were lots of beautiful churches and many statues of famous Poles - Marie Curie, Chopin and Copernicus....
In the eveing we went for a typical meal of perogies - filled with various savory fillings - yummy. David sampled some local beer which also got a thumbs up


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Poland (day 1)

The flight from Seattle to Frankfurt on Lufthansa was great- my standby upgrade to business cleared (which was a good start) my seatmate was a German gentleman who now lives in USA but who had spent his youth, working for the Snowy Mountains Authority in Australia building the huge hydro electric scheme in the 60's. Lots of interesting chatter....
A change of planes and terminals in Frankfurt (and Erik successfully made the transit also) we then flew onto Warsaw where "Kate" - Erik's new owner met us. She had met David an hour earlier when he arrived from Copehhagen, after returning 2 beagles back to Gold Line (Thanks Annette for letting us have Thomas and Susan for a while)
Kate left us at the Marriott to freshen up while she took Erik home to let him run and be fed. A few hours later she collected us and took us to her home, where she had prepared a typical Polish meal. It was great, she took many pictures (I will post links later) Erik had settled in very well.
we then returned to the hotel for a great sleep


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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.