Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
I’ve been going to the CSCLRC‘s Supported Entry Lab Retriever show for the past 4 years now, ever since we got Nala.
Each year it has rained before or during the show (and not just a light sprinkling), a trend that remains unbroken for this year’s event. It was a cold and damp event, but the dogs didn’t seem to mind one bit.
Have a couple hundred photos from today to go through, but so far this is my favourite photo.
Today was the Coastal SC Lab Retriever Club‘s annual fall oyster roast. While everybody else was complaining about the weather, I was with a bunch of fellow Lab owners having a great time watching the dogs run and chase each other around, and leaping into the pond to chase after bumpers.
Wish I had remembered to bring my camera with me.
Please join the Coastal SC Lab Retriever Club as it hosts a free seminar about our Labradors and all of their skin issues. We’ll address food allergies, itchy & flaky coats, those problem ears and much more! The seminar is presented by Dr. Randy Thomas, board certified dermatologist.
When: September 15, 2007
Time: 4-6 PM
Where: El Bohio/Pour House (1977 Maybank Highway, Charleston, SC)
I’m terrible at web design. I make a pretty good webmaster though, but when it comes to design, I suck. As a result, most of what I come up with tends to be fairly simple, uncomplicated and non-flashy. It also fits with my tendency to prefer simple and low-bandwidth (a hold-over from my modem days I suppose).
Now that my role as webmaster for CSCLRC is official, my first duty was to clean up the horrid HTML generated by FrontPage. The site itself was fine, but the HTML behind it was characteristically messy FrontPage stuff. A little bit of new CSS and a lot of copy/pasting later, I pushed out a new much cleaned up variant of the site largely using the same graphics.
This week, after playing with Inkscape and Gimp, I rolled out a cleaner brighter looking (to me anyway) CSCLRC site. I’m quite pleased with what I’ve made, although there’s still a little tweaking here and there that needs to be done.
Yesterday turned out to be a great day for CSCLRC’s Spring Fling match. Not too hot, nice breeze to keep most of the bugs away and plenty of dogs.
The event was open to all dogs, not just labs, so we had a few show up, like this Portuguese water dog (one of two)
a few Great Danes
and even a pair of Staffies
There was even an Australian Shepherd and a Saluki out to join in the fun.
Naturally there were Labs, and where there are Labs, there are Lab puppies!
The biggest part of the match was conformation, but since it was a B match, it’s less about showing off the best dog and more about getting dogs used to the ring and having fun.
Actually, it’s all about having fun, so there was also a costume contest to wrap things up (along with other fun events like fastest biscuit eating, dress up and ball and spoon races)
