May 23, 2009 Memorial Day Weekend

Pat and I took Brody to the OHPA 2009 Jack show in Lancaster. We don't show Brody but we wanted to visit with Diane Wright his breeder. She had not seen him in person since we got him over a year ago. She was very pleased with how he looked except he needs to lose about 5 pounds. She also showed us how to strip his winter coat off. He is a smooth coated terrier just like his mother. Diane had 9 dogs with her including Brody's mom. He looks just like her only bigger~he is larger than most of Diane's dogs(14 and 3/4 inches) but she said he would have made a wonderful stud dog.....too late now. Many of Diane's dogs or pups from her dogs were represented and did very well during the show on Saturday. As you can tell from the picture (my hair!!!)it was VERY HOT out 88 degrees. We were there until about 3 and then called it a day. Brody was pretty excited since it was his first time out around so many other dogs.

It was also graduation weekend for the local high schools. Not too many former Washington students at graduation~a few. I think with the economy many families have moved. We had a thunderstorm in Warsaw yesterday afternoon so I imagine River View had their ceremony inside. Seems like just yesterday Jeremy graduated....it was 1993!!!