Kula, Merl and I are home from our latest adventure. We were down in San Jose for the Northern California Cairn Terrier specialty dog show. Merl and his littermates,Tipsy and Ivy as well as his best friend Padme were entered over the weekend. They were the youngest entered and did a wonderful job in the ring. Confident and well behaved (for the most part). They all placed in the ribbons and we had lots of compliments about them, so I was very pleased with the results (of course, we would have loved to win something .... that will come as they get older).
Pat Gentry and I drove my van down, looking forward to some balmy California skies...DENIED~
We stayed in Yreka the first night with Ivy's family. What a wonderful time we had with them. Yreka is a darling town and Heidi and Mike are such a wonderful couple. Lucky for us too, because the puppies got to run and play hard before starting out for the day. We awoke to two inches of snow...and I had left the chains in the garage!!! No problem, Mike and Heidi led the way to Les Schwab and $90 later, we were on the road. Twenty miles down the road we were required to exit the freeway and put the chains on. (THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO MIKE. He insisted on doing the cold dirty deed. THANK YOU AGAIN!) For the next 40 miles or so we poked along safe and sound with our little caravan of Mike and Heidi leading the way.
We made it to the show ground, depositing our gear and then on to the hotel to settle in. It was fun seeing friends we don't normally show with and all the lovely dogs. The weather was HORRID...cold and rainy. Luckily the rings were inside, the grooming however was on a covered breezeway porch...and it was breezy and damp and very, very cold!!! Pretty miserable experience on that front.
It was a very safe and uneventful return trip. We scooted away from the show grounds as fast as we could to try to beat an incoming storm...success! We made it back to Yreka staying with Heidi and Mike again. Greeted by homemade turkey and rice soup and a huge bowl of fresh cut fruit. Puppies racing, racing, tumbling and playing, glad to be free again...if only for the evening. We left early yesterday morning and made the trip with no incident or bad weather, whoray!
I wonder where we will go next...
