I am having one H of a time with this stupid blog... sometimes i can get the other blogs i follow, but most of the time, I can hardly get in to write something...
Had a great time in Nanaimo, the Regionals agility trial was very interesting, everyone from Merritt qualified for the Nationals, and they are all going back beginning of August... hope they do well..The only thing that really bothered me where the handlers and dogs that shouldn't have been there.  The Regional trials were meant for the most experienced handlers "Master dogs and handlers", I talked to some handlers that had just barely started dogs...which i found took up a lot of time..I know that being able to say you had been to Regionals would be nice, but when you start with 500 points and end up with lesss than 50 points, they aren't ready to be there.. 
Toni and I had a great visit although I did get sick one day, but it was great seeing her and meeting her new dogs... Jake, Ranger (springer spaniels) and Shortie (the orginial All Canadian--(mutt))..and of course the man in her life, "Rob"..the lawyer who loves to Log...  Rob helped me "enable" Larry's passion these days of collecting "Old Iron"..a water pump..Old Iron is stuff that is so old and rusty that takes him weeks to clean up one piece, most of it are engines that used to run threshing machines, grinders, water pumps, right now L is working on restoring a 1950 golf course lawn mower.. he can hardly wait to cut the lawn with it..it is gear driven so won't be hard to push.. This is one of the engines he has restored, I can't find the orginal picture..

Green house is doing really well..got lots of tomatoes.. the earlies "Oregon Spring" are dong really well.. the weather has been so cold here that the cukes are just starting to climb.. basil and rosemary are struggling..  Meat birds are almost ready to butcher. got new laying chicks, Rhode Island Reds" mixed,as they don't sex these ones for some reason, so will probably end up with more roosters than hens, so will probably end up with 15 roosters and 10 hens..also got the turkeys... they are so funny..15 this year, could have sold more last year... 

Joe bought us a pair of tickets to Yankee baseball in Seattle in July... couldn't believe that if you get a hotel room there, that you have to pay for parking..anywhere from $20 to 40...a night...so decided that we would stay in Tualip(spelling) at the Indian casino for 2 nights.. it is only a 40 minute drive, and the game starts at noon, so that should work...then on the way home, we plan on stopping at Costco...looking for some socks for L, they carried them in Canada until a couple of years ago... and  he loved them, but can't find them else.. and then at the Farm Store..just for snooping...

Wynn is back doing agility, her limp is better, but i am only jumping her at 10 inches instead of the 22 inches she is suppose to jump...i think i will special her at 16 inches... so she doesn't hurt herself... she is doing well, but my knees are acting up this week..hope i will be able to keep running her..i want to put her in a trial in Kamloops the end of August..

Better go get my rear in gear and go check and feed chicks,  have a great weekend... hope the sun shines on Renate B's daughters fairy tale wedding in  Pemberton this weekend..