Winning feels good

The Monroe, WA show as a very nice show as usual. I think they had a very good turn out dispite our local economy. Feed hitting $20 per 50# bag, Boeing on strike, lay-offs due to this, and of course the National issues had some worried that numbers would be way down.

In our breeds we saw good numbers -- over 100 in Mini Rex and over 50 in Mini lops. It was nice to see everyone again also. I didn't do the Sept shows so my last show was a Triple Specialty. October and November will both be busy months. To make life easier, the October shows we will be entering mainly Mini Lops and then in November, I'll be entering the Mini Rex.

December in Mt. Vernon is "pending" as Emily is away at school and I am negotiating a seminar tour that would go 6 cities across Canada in 10 days that week and a half!

We personally did very well with the Mini Lops in Monroe. We have an abundance of Juniors and they show a great deal of promise with some already there. In Show A, we did extremely well. We had the 1st place Solid Sr. Buck, 1st place solid Jr Doe, 1st place broken Sr Buck, 1st place Broken JR buck, 1st place Broken Jr Doe and 1st place Broken Jr Doe! Quite a feat.

We did win BOB with the Solid Jr Doe. Congratulations to Becky J as she was BOSB and I think 2nd to us several times.

Show B we didn't get as many 1st places, but still did well. We did have the 1st place Solid JR Doe, 1st Place Broken SR buck, and 1st place Broken JR Doe. The Broken Jr Doe won BOB in that show.

I did take one lonely token MR so we would be sure to have our 3 breeders and he won his class in A and BOV in variety. Isn't that the way those class fillers go? He is nice but I didn't expect a win so that was another happy surprise.

We are getting ready for Tri-Cities and will have quite a few rabbits for sale. Emily will be going through them and we will sell what we can there. Not sure if we will get them posted to the site, but if you are looking for something, let me know (marian@hhnews.com) and I'll see if we have it available. We have several from the same litter so siblings of the "winners" will be moving on.