I would love to have attended even if I didn't have a dog! It sounded as if it was a great time, a lot of education and great camaraderie. Stormy On Jul 19, 2011, at 7:24 AM, TerraNorte@xxxxxxx wrote: For the second year, I have played hostess to an expanding group of friends, fellow exhibitors, esteemed judges and outlaws. For 7 days we swapped stories, told jokes, laughed hard, ate like truck drivers, sweated bullets and worked our dogs on sheep, goats, and ducks. During the week we offered classes for all levels of herding, from introductory classes, to fundamentals and on to A course, B course, and C course work - making the most of a faculty consisting of 12 highly experienced AKC & AHBA Herding Judges. We offered AKC instinct testing on Monday night, and AHBA trial on Wednesday night and our second annual AKC C course trial and tests on the weekend. I am very proud to announce that at the end of it all - several Terra Norte' dogs earned legs and new titles. These include a new PT title for Terra Norte's Tulsa Time "Tulsa" ( CH Kenlyn's Big Shot v Sunfarms, ROM x CH Windwalker-Terra Norte's Festina). The big sable dog - CH Terra Norte's Time Traveler, HSAs HRDIs HTADIs TC "Owen" (CH Hickory HIll's Excalibur, PT x CH Windwalker-Terra Norte's Festina) got a 2nd C course started leg and RHIT. Then to top things off my everyday stock dog - Terra Norte's Midnight Serenade, HSAs HRDIs "Norah" (CH Terra Norte-Windwalker's Tag Heuer, PT x Xajay's Sorcha of Terra Norte) finished her Herding Ranch Dog level 2 (HRDsII) title in the middle of the week and picked up her first C course started leg and went High in Trial on Sunday under judge Roy Sage. Norah also earned 2 legs towards her A course Intermediate sheep title over the past few weeks prior to the symposium. For those of you interested in herding - I hope you will put July 9 - 15, 2012 on your calendar and join us for next years Great Colorado Sheep Goat and Duck Drive........ ~ Val Manning Terra Norte' GSD Rancho Terra Norte' Wellington, CO _www.ranchoterranorte.com_ (http://www.ranchoterranorte.com) = = = = ======================================================================== POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ = = = = ======================================================================== ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================