Thursday, August 6, 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009


The morning started out overcast and wet from the rain but the promise of a better day. We're off roading early as the 'cast of thousands' got ready to run dogs.


Roading:

• Lea, Midge, Lily & Clifford – very solid 35 min.

• Robin, Kate, Ritha & Brie – starting to warm but a good 34 min.


Birdwork

• Midge – nice stylish find – crouch on shot – corrected but overall good job on Hun.

• Lily – good piece of work with 10:00 o'clock tail – manners fine.

• Sorrel – he got out of the box knowing this is where we bird work – stalking from the get go – can't do too much of this. Got him to move on and he pointed a nice distance of f and the bird had already run and he did a very repectacle relocate. Good job w'great style.

• Rhett – he handled pretty well and had an okay find – not a lot of class but wanted to go back on being released. I got him lightly and he responded and we ended up positive. Time to try him on the course.

Phil along with Whitney and Katherine helped Phil get the quail ( ugly job) and set up our 1st '09 johnie house at the meadow pond. I road out to give them a hand but they were just about done. We moved 23 quail into it and by the next day we were down to 12. Sneaking out somehow.

We had to use Huns for planted birdwork – need to get another house up and working. A hot afternoon and we had the misters running.

Susan was the "Chef" today and she was cooking with the help of the young girls all afternoon. We had an incredible English meal. The path to success did have its challenges.... About time to get all the ingredients in the oven, the circuit breakers started to blow and then the oven wouldn't work and then some oil boiled over and the smoke emptied the place. Skilled hands got all the windows, doors open and the smoke was dispearsed to greener pastures. Dinner preparations went on and we had a truly marvelous English meal prepared by Susan with help from Grahm and especially Katherine and Whitney. We managed to almost run out of wine( not really) and had a great evening in the canopy telling stories.