Busy Couple of weeks

Here we are in North Carolina @ Raleigh.  This show started on Tuesday with setup and then wednesday with showing.. Boy has it been a good show.  

We did Louisville last week and had a rewarding experience there.  Again we were in the Agility area and met many friends from last year.   

Here in Raleigh we've been busy every day, with one day to go Peter has just finished the special orders from today and still has some mail orders to go.  

Don't know what to expect tomorrow, will it be as busy or slower?

We've come up with a great new collar.  It's a martingale with leather for the tightener and using a brass ring for the slider.  It looks really nice and I think the buyer will be happy.  

We are always open to new ways of doing collars and leashes.

I finally got the K9 Bike jogger in this week... they are selling like hot cakes and we're ready to get a large amount in now.

Next week is the AKC agility National, I'm so excited, I've never been to one before and am expecting to see lots of rings and seeing people that I've met from all over the country to show up.

Poor Hoshi is in a false pregnancy AGAIN.  This time she's actually lactating, she is miserable, all the other times she has only stayed in the false pregnancies for a week, this time she has been in for 3 weeks and is getting more miserable with each day.  Her poor nipples are so swollen that many people wonder if she's actually pregnant.  I know better because she has NOT been NEAR a male at all!  She is being so motherly to Nougat, washing her face and ears.  Of course on the other hand she will try to hump her when she gets a chance.

We are still taking our bike rides, we have gone to the post office this week twice and have ridden around the fairgrounds the rest of the time.

North Carolina is a beautiful state, we came over the smokey mountains and they are very beautiful.  The fog is very low and we drove through some very dense spots.  It does look like smoke coming off the rocks.  Speaking of rocks, all along the road coming from Tennessee the road was cut through slate like rocks, very dark, smooth, table like... there was a river along the road and offerings of river rides on the west side, once we got over to the east side, the river was very large and much slower moving.  This I could kayak; I don't like the rapids, not for me.

The rest of what we've seen of the state is beautiful... lots of hardwoods, small meadows, older houses, slightly rolling...it's really pretty.

Snow???

We're still in Lexington, KY, last night there was a very light dusting of snow.  The gal at the desk says that this is about all they ever get.  It's so light the grass is still showing through.

Hoshi and Nougat don't like it because it makes their feet cold, so I took them out today when it was mostly melted.

Nougat is so funny, she's a little "piss pot" she goes around sniffing everything and trying to leave pea everywhere!!!  It gets so that she doesn't have anything left though.  She's awfully cute in her little coat.  She's really good about coming when I call.  I leave them both off leash when we're here at the horse park and close to the RV due to the fact that there is chain link fencing all around and no one else is here.  I haven't seen anyone even by the trailers or RV's.

Hoshi is very good about coming, I've been working with her a lot on obedience and she does really well with heeling, sit, stay come, flat, (except when it's wet or cold, she's a woose too) and will walk beside me even off lead.  Occasionally she will move too far from my heel but all I have to do is tell her "closer" and she comes right back.  I have to work now to get her to "go out" so that she will jump right or left on cue.  Her "leave it" is very consistent ... We're coming along though and having fun doing it.

Peter sees the heart dr tomorrow and then we'll come back to stay the night here and leave for Franklin on Tuesday AM.  Setup is on Wednesday.