Monday, September 18, 2006
Greensboro, NC, and Washington, PA, Shows
What a weekend! I'm sure I won't recover from this past weekend until at least next weekend!
It was a weekend of contrasts for sure. I experienced some of the best and worst of my rabbit hobby.
The worst parts came on Saturday night from about 8:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. The Greensboro show lasted a couple of hours longer than I had expected. Then Anna and I hit really bad fog in the mountains of West Virginia. The trip lasted what seemed a lifetime. After getting only 4 hours of sleep on Friday night, I ended up with just two hours of sleep in Saturday night. I got to bed at 3:15 a.m. and woke up at 5:15 - and couldn't sleep!
All day Sunday, I was somewhere between being crabby and fainting!
That show also finished a couple of hours later than expected. I did pull into the Tamarack Travel Plaza on the way home and napped for an hour. That put us home at 1:30 a.m. You do not know the sacrifice I am making to be writing this BLOG post instead of taking a nap!!!
The best part of the weekend had to be when Rio was named Best Reserve in Show for show A, and then Best In Show for shows B & C, on Saturday in Greensboro. On Sunday, Rio was second place to a well-known broken senior buck with 80+ legs in the open show, but took the class in the Specialty show and went on to be the Best Opposite Sex.
GC The Nature Trail's Mercedes came out of retirement to show the younger girls how it's done. Mercedes is two years old, has a full-grown grand champion daughter and is a grandmother. She earned her 15th through 18th legs with weekend (I showed her in four of the five shows). Two of the legs were BOS! She still has it. I had stopped showing her before the beginning of this sweeps year, I do believe. So her first BOS win of the weekend was even a herdsman point. Mercedes was my first ever homegrown grand champion.
The Nature Trail's Wizard and The Nature Trail's Quinn will both be getting a "GC" tacked onto the front of their names. Wizard earned his with a BOG, despite not being quite finished with his molt. Quinn won hers with a BOS in the show I scratched Mercedes from. It's time for Quinn to start making babies for Nationals. Wizard will have to cool his jets for a bit because I will be concentrating on granding Quincy and Lord now. Hopefully Quinn's semi-retirement will make room for Suzy Q, usually right on her heels, to grand next.
Several of my juniors started earning legs or added to their totals this weekend:
It was a weekend of contrasts for sure. I experienced some of the best and worst of my rabbit hobby.
The worst parts came on Saturday night from about 8:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. The Greensboro show lasted a couple of hours longer than I had expected. Then Anna and I hit really bad fog in the mountains of West Virginia. The trip lasted what seemed a lifetime. After getting only 4 hours of sleep on Friday night, I ended up with just two hours of sleep in Saturday night. I got to bed at 3:15 a.m. and woke up at 5:15 - and couldn't sleep!
All day Sunday, I was somewhere between being crabby and fainting!
That show also finished a couple of hours later than expected. I did pull into the Tamarack Travel Plaza on the way home and napped for an hour. That put us home at 1:30 a.m. You do not know the sacrifice I am making to be writing this BLOG post instead of taking a nap!!!
The best part of the weekend had to be when Rio was named Best Reserve in Show for show A, and then Best In Show for shows B & C, on Saturday in Greensboro. On Sunday, Rio was second place to a well-known broken senior buck with 80+ legs in the open show, but took the class in the Specialty show and went on to be the Best Opposite Sex.
GC The Nature Trail's Mercedes came out of retirement to show the younger girls how it's done. Mercedes is two years old, has a full-grown grand champion daughter and is a grandmother. She earned her 15th through 18th legs with weekend (I showed her in four of the five shows). Two of the legs were BOS! She still has it. I had stopped showing her before the beginning of this sweeps year, I do believe. So her first BOS win of the weekend was even a herdsman point. Mercedes was my first ever homegrown grand champion.
The Nature Trail's Wizard and The Nature Trail's Quinn will both be getting a "GC" tacked onto the front of their names. Wizard earned his with a BOG, despite not being quite finished with his molt. Quinn won hers with a BOS in the show I scratched Mercedes from. It's time for Quinn to start making babies for Nationals. Wizard will have to cool his jets for a bit because I will be concentrating on granding Quincy and Lord now. Hopefully Quinn's semi-retirement will make room for Suzy Q, usually right on her heels, to grand next.
Several of my juniors started earning legs or added to their totals this weekend:
- Demetrius (GC Leo x GC Markie) - 2 legs
- Hunnicutt (Mars x GC Roxie ) - 2 legs
- Glynis (Navaro x GC Hilary) - 2 legs
- McCartney (Navaro x GC Hilary) - added 1 leg for a total of 2 legs
- Sweet Pea (GC LL Brendan x Nina) - added 1 leg for a total of 4 legs
The leg count for the five shows was 20. Rabbits granded: 2. Herdsman points: 1. Quality points: 15. BOBs: 3. BOS: 4. Sweeps points: 2569.
I feel totally worn out. My bunnies all look like bags of bones. It's funny how the rabbits I left at home now look better than the ones I took! Hopefully we'll all recover in the next few days.
Laurie Stroupe
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