duncansalchemist
28/52: the auditor
Spent this past weekend at what might well have been the most enjoyable (and most informative) sheepdog clinic I've EVER audited! Hosted by Leslie and Kevin Whitney, of Kerales Farm in PA, it was taught by Michael Gallagher (winner of an International Supreme Sheepdog Championship: see www.dogchannel.com/dog-magazines/dogworld/dog-world-febru... )
Michael is an incredibly talented instructor, with wonderful insight into each dog, and unflagging energy, even in the face of unrelenting mid-Atlantic heat and humidity (it could have been worse; it was only in the 80s on Saturday, and didn't hit the 90s until today). You couldn't have asked for a nicer site, with a lovely farm with a challenging flock - a mixture of Katahdin and Scottish blackface sheep that hadn't been worked recently. The gracious hosts provided a fabulous dinner on Saturday - Kevin is an award-winning competitive master of barbecue. And even the weather cooperated! Although we might have had (gulp) as much as six inches of rain over the weekend, it all fell on Friday and Saturday nights, leaving the days free.
Alas - I only had signed up to audit, so I didn't get to work Duncan for Michael. (Duncan has had so few lessons since the last clinic I'd entered him in that I hated to sink more $$$). Next year, for sure, if Leslie hosts this clinic again, I'm going to JUMP at the shot of entering both Duncan and Ross! Duncan wasn't thrilled with the fact that he didn't get to work sheep; stared at them every chance he got. And when I crated him after letting him spectate, especially if I was giving Ross a chance to watch, he HOWLED like a werewolf! Heathen (it's fitting you're seeing the "bad side" of his face). Fortunately he didn't keep it up very long.
CR@P just realized all the photos I shot this weekend were saved as jpegs, not as RAW files - how did THIS happen?!?!
28/52: the auditor
Spent this past weekend at what might well have been the most enjoyable (and most informative) sheepdog clinic I've EVER audited! Hosted by Leslie and Kevin Whitney, of Kerales Farm in PA, it was taught by Michael Gallagher (winner of an International Supreme Sheepdog Championship: see www.dogchannel.com/dog-magazines/dogworld/dog-world-febru... )
Michael is an incredibly talented instructor, with wonderful insight into each dog, and unflagging energy, even in the face of unrelenting mid-Atlantic heat and humidity (it could have been worse; it was only in the 80s on Saturday, and didn't hit the 90s until today). You couldn't have asked for a nicer site, with a lovely farm with a challenging flock - a mixture of Katahdin and Scottish blackface sheep that hadn't been worked recently. The gracious hosts provided a fabulous dinner on Saturday - Kevin is an award-winning competitive master of barbecue. And even the weather cooperated! Although we might have had (gulp) as much as six inches of rain over the weekend, it all fell on Friday and Saturday nights, leaving the days free.
Alas - I only had signed up to audit, so I didn't get to work Duncan for Michael. (Duncan has had so few lessons since the last clinic I'd entered him in that I hated to sink more $$$). Next year, for sure, if Leslie hosts this clinic again, I'm going to JUMP at the shot of entering both Duncan and Ross! Duncan wasn't thrilled with the fact that he didn't get to work sheep; stared at them every chance he got. And when I crated him after letting him spectate, especially if I was giving Ross a chance to watch, he HOWLED like a werewolf! Heathen (it's fitting you're seeing the "bad side" of his face). Fortunately he didn't keep it up very long.
CR@P just realized all the photos I shot this weekend were saved as jpegs, not as RAW files - how did THIS happen?!?!