Since I recently have encouraged building majors at all breed shows, I will answer this. Even with the good weather we are having this year (so far), I just cannot drive or fly across the country or down to Florida for shows. All we have within a 6-8 hour drive of the midwest/great lakes area are all breeds - usually from after the National until March....with the exception of the Chicago Triangle in Feb. So, that's 5 months of the year.....makes sense to me to try to build majors if we can. I personally don't just build to build. I only do that if the all breed judges are good. I can tell you that we certainly DO build up entries for Specialty weekends all spring and summer around here too. Nowadays you have to for some weekends. We wouldn't have had majors at the Central Ohio Specialty last fall without encouraging entries and calling/emailing everyone we knew to get them to enter. So, I think it's just the time of year for building majors at all breeds, because that's all we have to hope for...for a while. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: sally@xxxxxxxxxxx To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:25 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] interesting I find it interesting that many people are out there encouraging building majors at the allbreeds shows but (except for Sheila) you rarely see anyone encouraging entries for specialty shows- Sally www.embroiderybysally.com (new) ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. 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 - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================ ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2006. 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 - www.showgsd.org ============================================================================