We were in S CA this weekend at the Orange Coast and Long Beach Specialties. Since that is for sure, for sure Surfing country...the "Big Wave" analogy seems appropriate. It begins with the birth of 2 litters of puppies out of BOF CH Jaccar-Rivendell's Brando OFA TC HSAs and 2 Gotti daughters...Utopia-Rivendell's Scenario & Rivendell-Utopia Sachet Jericho. The 1st breeding gave us Magnolia & CH Rita...the 2nd...3 girls and a "S" litter. Start The Commotion (Molly)...Sunny Side Up (Sunny)...and Some Like It Hot (Pepper). We liked these girlz a lot from the beginning. Next...a litter from that same Brando dog bred to Rivendell-Chopae's Yum Yum that produced Rivendell's Chopae's Rip Tide. He's about 10 months now. The story continues with the addition of simply wonderful co-owners. "The Ben Bigornia" with Magnolia...Hallie & Seth McMullen & Ann Smith for Sunny...Jan & Dave Coleman for Molly...and Isabelle & Gene Dupyzk for Pepper. Pepper is in training back with Derek & Patti in W VA. Rip's co-owner is also his co-breeder Lissa (we went to see the Stones Friday night) Cunningham. The wave got big for Sunny when she went BOF NW under Kathy Darnell and bigger yet when she was the 1st 12-18 Bitch at the Nationals in Concord. Molly joined her on that wave when she won the Novice class at the same National. We were in awe. The wave swelled even more as we picked up 2 ROM buttons at Thursday's meeting and an AOE Award for SEL EX AM & 2 X SEL CAN CH Rivendell's Magnolia OFA TC PT at the dinner Saturday evening. That's a big wave guyz. Saturday in Placentia CA was miles from the beach but the wave continued to grow. Rip won his class...Molly was WB...Sunny was RWB...and Ms Magnolia took her 45th BOB. Thank you...Judge Janice Staley. Sunday the swell continued as Rip went BP...Sunny won her class...and Ms. Molly went WB yet again. Thank you...Judge Helen Franklin. We are so proud and definitely doing the doing the "Happy Dance" in Bay Point & Newark CA...Nampa ID...and Jan...Dave...& Lissa in Bonsal CA Paul, Jenn, Ben, Hallie, Seth, Ann, Jan, Dave, and my ever-loving Lissa... Visit Rivendell on 'da web' at www.rivendellgsd.com ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================