"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place."

— Rainer Maria Rilke

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance."

— John Petit-Senn

Congratulations to all and thanks to everyone willing to run for office.  Janie

 

Collie Club of America Election Results

 

Officers

 

President:

Robert Myers 900

Sylvie Lingenfelter 440

Write ins:

            Joe Reno 1

            Jeanne Marre 1

            Adria Weiner 1

            Jackie Caruso 1

 

1st VP:

Les Canavan 907

Tom Montero 413

Write in:

            Pati Merrill 1

 

2nd VP:

Pati Merrill 798

Martha Ramer 514

Write in:

            Lee Patten 2

 

Treasurer:

Mike Esch 1297

Write ins:

            Carmen Leonard 2

            Robert Futh 1

 

Secretary:

Jane Clymer 1280

Write ins:

            Helen Campbell 3

            Carol Zielke 1

 

Director:

John Buddie 1255

Write ins:

            Helen Campbell 1

            Bill Holbrooke 1

            Judy Evans 1

            Barbara Schwartz 1

            Anne Cross 1

            Kathy Moll 1

            Gayle Kaye 1

            Lori Montero 1

            Emily Berkley 1

            Marianne Sullivan 1

            Adria Weiner 1

 

*Foreign Directors:*

 

Australia

Robert Bell 7

Leah Ryan 3

 

Japan

Hiroshi Tojo 12

 

Canada

Jill Nickerson-Smith 23

Cheryl Ellis 8

Nancy Anstruther 1

Sue Bertand 2

 

Europe

John Geddes 4

Lia Verniel 3

 

 

*USA District Directors:*

 

Alabama

Suzanne Kuechenmeister 13

 

Arizona

John Kavanagh 23

Candi Sapp 6

 

Arkansas

Ed Simoneaux 8

 

California North

Peggy Darrington 58

Melinda Sunnarborg 55

 

California South

Ed Degner 67

Randy Smith 56

Jolynn Gilstrap 26

Susan Owens 19

 

Colorado

Joann Romero 12

Kelly Neely 1

Shelly Bergstraser 1

 

Connecticut

Jackie Caruso 27

Judy Virchow 3

 

Florida

Paula Clairday 43

Georgia

Yvonne Wynn 14

Gayle Guthman 11

Allen Dills 2

 

Hawaii

En Harriet Chang 8

 

Idaho

Mary Allen 8

 

Illinois

Pat Caldwell 62

Lynn Myers 57

Larry Reynolds 16

Bonnie Cary 9

 

Indiana

Donna Walle 19

 

Iowa

Nadine Beckwith-Olsen 9

Michele Struble7

 

Kansas

Emily Berkley 11

Russell Dyke 5

 

Kentucky

Susan Kaelin 15

 

Louisiana

Mary Catoir 7

Brenda Miramon 1

 

Maine

Kathy Parker 9

Susan Martin 7

 

Maryland

Judy Porter 20

 

Massachusetts

Andrea Nelson 35

Dan Cardoza 5

 

Michigan

Carole Stanley 43

Kristina Reppert 9

 

Minnesota

Patricia Jung 16

Alice Holm 6

Barb Saterbo 1

Missouri

Marion Johnson 21

Cheryl Kobularcik 0

 

Mississippi

Joey Price 7

Harriet Pierce 0

 

Nebraska

Carolyn Forman 11

Alisa Pesek 7

 

Nevada

Deanne LaCruze 8

Ed LaCruze 1

 

New Hampshire

Diane Bishop 11

Elizabeth Klein 8

 

New Jersey

Kris Provenzano 43

Cathy Squire 4

Carolyn Jones 1

 

New Mexico

Vicki Loucks 4

 

New York East

Judie Evans 20

Richard Boland 8

 

New York South

Janet Leek 18

Carol Miller 1

 

New York West

Joan Kirkland 9

Krista Hansen 5

Susan Abraham 4

 

North Carolina

Lenell Nix 25

Lori Montero 22

 

Ohio

Jeanne Marre 39

Martha Skilton 13

 

Oklahoma

Pam Eddy 9

Sylvie Lingenfelter 2

 

Oregon

Barbara Cleek 14

Pennsylvania East

David Supplee 20

Jennie Grover 18

Cathy Keefer 1

 

Pennsylvania West

Barbara Linder 30

Thomas Pendro 2

Kathy Hoffman 1

 

Rhode Island

Carol Chisholm 9

Joseph Chisholm 1

 

South Carolina

James Holliday 13

Pat Keadle 1

 

Tennessee

Betty Abbott 16

Rayleen Hendrix 14

 

Texas North

Larry Willeford 22

Peggy Conger 8

 

Texas South

Debbie Price 22

Jamie Ennis 11

Erin Gorney 1

 

Virginia

Shelly Roos 27

Kathleen Mesler 24

Chenoa Braucher 1

 

Washington

Michelle Inman 24

Les Hutchins 12

 

Wisconsin

Joanne Huff 43

Kathleen Zehetner 4

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I find that fear is the major factor in procrastination. I had built a website for a friend using Homestead and while the site looks ok it was really frustrating…. It was way too limiting. For my site I found a company called Andy's Web Tools. What a piece of cake!!!! Their customer service has been wonderful!!!! Click Here For Andy's Web Tools Site

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What a WONDERFUL life to be able to spend one's birthday doing the thing you love to do and surrounded by lots of good people!!!

 

We brought 8 different cakes and pies to the agility trial.

  

We sang to the birthday girl and she cut her cake.

 

Birthday bonus was she and Masher got QQ number 31 !!!

  

People running agility sure do work up an appetite!!!! 

Wishing everyone a safe, fun and soul filling 2010!!!!!!

Just got bask from a great agility weekend!!!! Ella my Dal had a
fabulous weekend.  She was moving! Today she was 8th in the 20″ Ex B
jumpers class out of over 90 dogs. She was 2 and a half seconds behind
the first place dog!!!!!

This is the longest stretch of shows that Ella has done and she held it together great!!! She had some amazing runs. She didn’t Q in every run but she had some brilliant runs!!!!

I was so pleased with my little boy Cory. I was late for the Bred By group and ran and grabbed Cory out of his crate, fluffed fluffed in the the ring as best I could and he showed his little heart out.

Cory was pulled in the group and that was very exciting!!!!!

 

For all you dog show people just a heads up about Dress Barn…. They have FABULOUS clothes!!!!

Each store has two sides. One side for smaller sizes and the other size for women's sizes!!! And both sides match! So if you need a smaller size top and a larger size bottom from a suit they have BOTH!!!! Colors and fashions are very nice and priced very reasonably. AND they offer layaway!!!!

I stopped in to a new Dress Barn the other day and noticed that they were doing Dress Barn Parties. Curiosity peaked I asked about them. So you set up a time and get 3 or more friends to join you and they block off a complete dressing room and put out drinks, cookies, nuts. They are very helpful and everyone gets 15% off their entire purchase on top of sale prices. They also gave a cute little favor bag to take home.

 

We had a nice turn out for our Dress Barn Party!!! It was lots of fun having us all go in and try stuff on and then do little fashion shows for each other.

 

This was a great little get together and got some nice clothes to boot!!!

Our dear friend Francine brought  homemade  Rocky Road fudge to the Papillon Agility trial for us!!!

On top of being out of this world yummy…. she decorated it in honor of Masher's trip to the UK for the World team event!!! And it is the shape of a butterfly!!! How cute is that????

 

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart."

— Pearl S. Buck

"Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline…too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with…something about yourself, your career, your spouse."

— Dale Dauten

"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."

— Albert Einstein

We celebrated our friend Kate's milestone birthday at Sevilla in Long Beach after the AKC Invitational.

 

The restaurant is a cool little Spanish place that serves tapas and tapitas… which are appetizers.We called ahead and bought tickets for their 4:30 Flamenco Dinner and Show. We arrived and were told there was NO 4:30 show. I asked then why did the lady sell us tickets for the 4:30 show?????I was NOT happy!!!

They said we could wait for the 8:00 show but we all had dogs to get ready for the show the next day and God forbid we all stay out super late :)The manager was very sorry for the mistake and told us if we wanted to stay for a nice dinner he would comp us half the bill. Ok. That works. We made the best of it and stayed for dinner.

I had celebrated my birthday at Sevilla a few years ago and we did the dinner dancing show. You get to pick from a couple of choices for the dinner. So it was a no brainer. Easy.This time we had to pick from the entire menu!! That was no small feat!

We were REALLY hungry and our poor waiter had to describe EVERY item. We ended up ordering like 15 things!!! He did tell us each item was a very small portion.

 

And they were VERY small portions!!! Each item we ordered came on a small plate and we each got a bite or two of everything.

Half way thru dinner Daneen reaches in pocket and pulls out a dog treat…. AKA a weenie!!! She put it on one of the little plates and we all had a great time dressing it up to look like a bonafide Sevilla tapa!!!

 

Our waiter was just the best and really helped make our dinner experience a memorable one. He turned 6 shades of red when he came over and saw our creation!!

We ended up staying for over three hours and left quite stuffed! Having a girls night and laughing and letting loose is good for the soul!!!

 

Happy Birthday Kate!!!!