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October - November 2006.  Leslie lost La Prele X Slingshot, Australian Kelpie.  He was 12 1/2.  Don Hyler, Arkansas picked up Maggie.  Mark Bishop and Glenn drive up from Arkansas with dogs for training.  Brother Bernard drives over from Missouri to spend the day.  Allen Sanders brings over his pups.  AVCA Certification Examinations and Annual Conference.  Leslie sees Jim Farnham and Jerry and Darlene Sanborn in Scottsdale.  Matt and Liz go to St. Louis in the zippy car.  Ben the seamstress - tailor.  The backdoor tree is cut into fireplace wood.  SNOW.

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Left - Slingshot - Best Dog Ever, May 1994 to November 2006

Left:  Don Hyler, Arkansas, picks up Maggie.  Mark Bishop, his daughter and friend Glenn drive up from Arkansas to leave off a couple dogs for training.

Johnny delivers the hay we contracted back in the spring.  Just in time for our first snow.

Ben's brother Bernard drove over from Lockwood, MO.  They spent part of the day checking out the "zippy" car.  Bernard farms and is a rural mail carrier.

The backdoor tree died this last year, so Ben has a "close" source of firewood.  We're

still in a drought.  The pond has turned into a giant mud puddle and is about that shallow.

Allen Sander's "Max" spies "Nana Goat" and walks up.  Sharlotte Snedden uses

Rawhide for a desk as she writes notes for the upcoming AVCA examinations and

conference.  And Ben the seamstress as he hems his latest coverall purchase.

October and November were busy with the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association.  Above left, examiner review during certification examinations at NEO A&M College in Miami, OK.  that kept both Ben and Leslie hopping.  Above right, Leslie with Drs. Rick Kauffman (CO), Ines Wecker (Germany) and Nicole Schumann (Germany).  Left Darlene and Jerry Sanborn drove Jim Fanham (seated), long-time Kelpie breeder, up from Florence, AZ to see Leslie. Jim has sisters to Slingshot and a Kate (Ben) x Slingshot son. They were all at the AVCA annual conference and meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Ben works "Whip" (Rowdy x Lena) after the big snow.  Whip knows how to make snow fly !  Whip belongs to Tally Coon from Wyoming.  He'll be ready to go home the first of the year.

Slingshot's been working since he came home at 6 1/2 weeks from Richard and Edna Grabow's, Douglas, Wyoming.  He's a double bred Hipshot/Emma/Scoop for those of you who know the old Kelpies.

 

Beautiful sunrises the two days after our big snow the end of November.

Jazzer goes for a run with the dogs in the pasture.  Above right, Matt and Liz Fullbright travel to St. Louis for the Thanksgiving Holiday in their "zippy" car complete with rigged up fan for heater.

Above an "ice horse" after the thunderstorms, rain, sleet and ice before it all turned to snow.  Right Leslie and house hounds after the snow and sun came out.

Snow drifts around the barn.  Goats and sheep cleaning up the hay before they make their way to the pasture.

 

Perch watching the cattle break through the ice to get water.

We also lost one of the members of our small group the end of November.  John E. Hoodenpyle, 52, saddle-maker, husband, father and grandfather.  He and wife, Karen, lived a couple miles south of us.  You may recall that everyone got together to bale hay for them earlier this summer.

 

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