Fitchburg & Salem, MA

The weekend of March 14th and 15th was spent in Fitchburg and Salem, MA.
The Sporting Dog specialty show was held in Fitchburg.
On Saturday, Hazel won the Gun Dog class, and on Sunday she won the Bred By Exhibitor class. No points towards her championship title were won, but we had fun anyways!

Ahhhh.....ear rubs from the judge!
Life is good!

I won first place in my class??
That must be good for at least 5 cookies!

After leaving the show on Sunday afternoon,
we headed off to Salem, Ma to celebrate an early St. Patrick's Day at O'Neill's Irish Pub on Washington Street.
But first, some play time for Hazel at Winter Island park!

Leave it to Mom to find a Tree of Woe!
And then make ME sit by it!

Run as fast as you can
from the Tree of Woe!

Look! A playground! Much better than that "Woe" Tree!
Oh....This is gonna be FUN!

Here I come Mom!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Parting shot of another one of our favorite eateries in Salem!
Engine House Pizza
YUMMY!

Our next show is Friday, March 27th in Syracuse, NY.
Hazel is entered in the breed confirmation class and the Rally Novice B class.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Wishing everyone a Happy and Safe
St. Patrick's Day!

Sunday Morning Visitor

Welcome March!

Hazel has been taking it easy the past couple of weeks.
She promptly came into season the week after the Hartford, CT show, which I was actually very pleased about because now she'll be done in time for the Fitchburg, MA show in two weeks.
I can also train and compete with her all summer and into the autumn with out worry of a heat cycle interrupting our plans!

The snow is (very) slowly beginning to melt, although now the temps. have dropped again and all is frozen, making walking quite treacherous and running and playing frisbee out of the question for now.
Hopefully it will begin to feel like spring soon!

On a different note, for the past month, or so, we've been adding various scraps to our bird/squirrel feeding station for the crows and ravens to enjoy.
Recently, in the evenings, we've seen a fox visiting the buffet.
Imagine our surprise this morning when she decided to stop in and check out the Sunday morning brunch menu!