Winter is coming…

by Beth on November 12, 2011

While the thought of our impending Pacific Northwest winter isn’t quite as foreboding as the evocative “Stark words” from George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series, the title seemed somehow apropos to describe how bereft the whippets and I feel to be stuck at home without any more racing until spring. But we’ll take advantage of the down time to recuperate and rejuvenate and get caught up on some much needed housekeeping, both literally at home and figuratively on the web!

18 months I am so proud of the Chili x Lark pups’ early careers. Seven in particular was such a superstar and made me so proud! In the first three months of her career, she consistently placed in the top ten and the points at the CWA race meets and in the placements at the CWA matches, quickly racking up 10.5 ARX points and all 5 DPC credits. She is a CWA match winner and placed consistently enough in the matches to secure herself a spot in the year-end CWA Conformation top-10. It will be so hard to wait for six months until the first local CWA meets of 2012 for the first opportunity for her to finish her ARX title.

18 months Jonah, while not quite the superstar on the track that his sister is, improved his performance with every meet and finished the year running a high C/low B grade, coming very close to the points on a few occasions. I look forward to his continued improvement with more maturity and experience.

I did a few quick updates to the website today:

I have many more new photos to add, so stay tuned for much more. Luckily the dearth of events in the winter means I have a lot more free weekends and a lot more time to kill, and one of my goals over the long winter is a complete overhaul of this website. I may also hit a few shows here and there, but mostly we’ll be biding our time dreaming of racing in the spring…

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Playing catch up…

September 10, 2011

I have been extremely remiss in keeping my website updated this year. My only excuse is that I’ve had a redesign/reorganization in mind and I kept thinking I might as well wait to do updates until I have time for the complete overhaul, but now I concede the utter ridiculousness of that premise! What was [...]

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Hokum brag!

November 25, 2010

Hokum was entered in his first show this past Saturday at the Whidbey Island KC in Monroe, WA, and was Winners Dog for his first point handled by his owner Mary Downing of Whimsy Whippets. I’m very proud of this handsome, sweet and willing boy who tries so hard for his mom, who has him [...]

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More updates

November 11, 2010

When I wrote the last post on Sunday and said it would be a few more weeks before I would be able to get more updates done, I was forgetting today was a holiday. So, I do have more updates sooner than expected! Today I added this year’s Halloween photos to Ellie’s candid photos. This [...]

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It lives!

November 7, 2010

At long last, signs of life on the blog! I spent most of the weekend playing long overdue catch-up on the website. I did a few tweaks under the hood, and I uploaded many new photos that I’ve been saving up for months to add to the dogs’ photo galleries. You can see new photos [...]

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Jonah brag!

August 29, 2010

Hopefully the first of many! Jonah and Seven were entered in their first official event last weekend, the conformation match at the CWA National in Aldergrove, BC. He started the day by winning the 3-6 month puppy dog class, beating his brother Hokum. Seven was 2nd in her big class of 3-6 month puppy bitches. [...]

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Puppy news… sort of

August 5, 2010

Boy does time ever fly when you’re having fun! I guess I was deluding myself when I thought I might be able to reclaim some time once the puppies were all off in their new homes. I don’t know how this could possibly be, but I seem to be more busy than ever! I have [...]

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8 week update, photos and video

June 20, 2010

Eight weeks is a very busy age! In the 10 days since my last update, the puppies have had multiple visitors and several outings to friends’ houses. They had their first shots. They were all BAER tested and all have normal hearing (yay!). We’ve had mixed weather but the puppies were able to spend four [...]

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7 week photos and video

June 10, 2010

To make up for last week’s appalling dearth of cute candid photos, today I took a whole bunch of action shots of the pups playing like wild animals out in the yard during a brief break in the rain.  My camera is not a fancy digital SLR really suited for action photos but it still [...]

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6 week update and stacked photos

June 6, 2010

It has been an insanely busy week and I am sorry to be posting a few days later this week than I have in previous weeks. The week started with WWWA’s Versatility Weekend in Roy, WA. The puppies attended with me on Saturday and Monday and had a wonderful time. The weather was the pits, [...]

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