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03-08-19, 07:51 AM
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Remember I posted a few weeks back that Puppy Love rocked it in a Hunt Performance Test in a pack of mini wirehaired doxies? Well the way the scoring goes is that you learn pass/fail right there in the field then they mail you a copy of the judges’ scoresheet with all the details on it.
The dogs are judged on a number of hunting attributes, on a scale from 1-10, with 10 being the best. To get a PASS, the dog has to score at least 5 in each category from each judge, and also get an average score across all three judges of at least 6, and also demonstrate a lack of gun shyness.
Puppy Love’s scores:
Ability to find (searching)- 8 from each judge
Use of voice- 8 from each judge
Line ability- 9 from each judge
Adaptability- 9 from each judge
Determination- two 10’s and a 9
Gun shyness- Pass x 3
Wow that’s even better than I realized!
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The dogs are judged on a number of hunting attributes, on a scale from 1-10, with 10 being the best. To get a PASS, the dog has to score at least 5 in each category from each judge, and also get an average score across all three judges of at least 6, and also demonstrate a lack of gun shyness.
Puppy Love’s scores:
Ability to find (searching)- 8 from each judge
Use of voice- 8 from each judge
Line ability- 9 from each judge
Adaptability- 9 from each judge
Determination- two 10’s and a 9
Gun shyness- Pass x 3
Wow that’s even better than I realized!
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03-08-19, 07:56 AM
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Dat headband tho...
03-08-19, 08:00 AM
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03-08-19, 08:04 AM
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03-08-19, 08:05 AM
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Nice pic. Nice Gerch, too.
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03-08-19, 08:26 AM
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Remember I posted a few weeks back that Puppy Love rocked it in a Hunt Performance Test in a pack of mini wirehaired doxies? Well the way the scoring goes is that you learn pass/fail right there in the field then they mail you a copy of the judges’ scoresheet with all the details on it.
The dogs are judged on a number of hunting attributes, on a scale from 1-10, with 10 being the best. To get a PASS, the dog has to score at least 5 in each category from each judge, and also get an average score across all three judges of at least 6, and also demonstrate a lack of gun shyness.
Puppy Love’s scores:
Ability to find (searching)- 8 from each judge
Use of voice- 8 from each judge
Line ability- 9 from each judge
Adaptability- 9 from each judge
Determination- two 10’s and a 9
Gun shyness- Pass x 3
Wow that’s even better than I realized!
❤️
The dogs are judged on a number of hunting attributes, on a scale from 1-10, with 10 being the best. To get a PASS, the dog has to score at least 5 in each category from each judge, and also get an average score across all three judges of at least 6, and also demonstrate a lack of gun shyness.
Puppy Love’s scores:
Ability to find (searching)- 8 from each judge
Use of voice- 8 from each judge
Line ability- 9 from each judge
Adaptability- 9 from each judge
Determination- two 10’s and a 9
Gun shyness- Pass x 3
Wow that’s even better than I realized!
❤️
Awesome pup! Back from the mini vacay to learn that our longtime worker has attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of the "stupid in these types of things" woman of the house, with his pricing, and also quite likely has committed our first actual theft, in all our years here. We will not mention the theft, directly, and I will confront him on his pricing, and tell him we can no longer afford to hire him. We already pay more that anybody else, and now he has lost out on that. People see an opportunity and jump, without thinking things through.
That. Is. Awesome. I love totally dated pics and wish that I had more, myself.
03-08-19, 08:27 AM
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03-08-19, 08:29 AM
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03-08-19, 08:45 AM
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I recently read about people with too much $$ paying big bucks to get infusions of "young blood" which I think is actually just plasma from young people, supposedly it's the latest anti-aging fad. Google it at your own risk.
That's wild, wacky stuff. Sad!
That's wild, wacky stuff. Sad!
03-08-19, 08:45 AM
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I had a Columbus SLX Bianchi with Shimano 600, the precursor to Ultegra. Downtube SIS shifting. . Got hit by a car a week or two before the same charity event I was riding in that photo, only an early edition. I needed a new bike fast. There had been a high end shop in Philly called Bike Tech, but it had become a Bike Line a year or two before. However, they still had some of the old Bike Tech merchandise left over. The De Rosa frame they had was too small. A mechanic went down into the basement and emerged with the frame. Columbus TSX tubing with a chrome fork. Built it up with Ultegra STI and Mavic rims. I rode the crap out of that bike. Even took it to Italy when I went on a Giro vacation in '95. At some point in the late 90s a mechanic noticed that the downtube was bent. Think it happened when I rode off my rollers and straight into a wall in my apartment. When I gave up my apartment in '99 to start my two years of touring/not working I stored it in my mom's garage. At some point my mom hired two friends of mine to do some extended work on her house. Big drinkers and somewhat absent minded at times. One day when they finished work they left the garage door open and someone stole it.
03-08-19, 08:49 AM
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Taken at what was then called the Lehigh County Velodrome in Trexlertown, PA.
03-08-19, 08:51 AM
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smelling the roses
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03-08-19, 08:57 AM
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03-08-19, 08:59 AM
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smelling the roses
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What's even more triste is that it will likely move to the west over time. Thankfully, our time will hopefully be up before that. One of the perks of being old.
03-08-19, 09:02 AM
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Bummer. Is it just being "spoiled by success" crowds or is it safety/security or what??
03-08-19, 09:05 AM
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So it is
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I had a Columbus SLX Bianchi with Shimano 600, the precursor to Ultegra. Downtube SIS shifting. . Got hit by a car a week or two before the same charity event I was riding in that photo, only an early edition. I needed a new bike fast. There had been a high end shop in Philly called Bike Tech, but it had become a Bike Line a year or two before. However, they still had some of the old Bike Tech merchandise left over. The De Rosa frame they had was too small. A mechanic went down into the basement and emerged with the frame. Columbus TSX tubing with a chrome fork. Built it up with Ultegra STI and Mavic rims. I rode the crap out of that bike. Even took it to Italy when I went on a Giro vacation in '95. At some point in the late 90s a mechanic noticed that the downtube was bent. Think it happened when I rode off my rollers and straight into a wall in my apartment. When I gave up my apartment in '99 to start my two years of touring/not working I stored it in my mom's garage. At some point my mom hired two friends of mine to do some extended work on her house. Big drinkers and somewhat absent minded at times. One day when they finished work they left the garage door open and someone stole it.
Great pic, and thanks for sharing the story. Very cool, except the garage door part.
03-08-19, 09:08 AM
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The former. "Let's see how much we can gouge, and how quickly". We looked at two complete dumps, in a popular area, and each wanted better than US$350 per night. They were maybe worth $75. And then you had the crowds to deal with. We hightailed to Valladolid, where we found a lovely hotel for $30, and a remote cenote which could be bicycled to, if one of us was not bogged down by the morning heat.
03-08-19, 09:11 AM
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The former. "Let's see how much we can gouge, and how quickly". We looked at two complete dumps, in a popular area, and each wanted better than US$350 per night. They were maybe worth $75. And then you had the crowds to deal with. We hightailed to Valladolid, where we found a lovely hotel for $30, and a remote cenote which could be bicycled to, if one of us was not bogged down by the morning heat.
03-08-19, 09:19 AM
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VFL For Life
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Am I a candidate for bone marrow transplant so I can fix my immune system?
03-08-19, 09:20 AM
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Interesante. Sometimes mrs datlas and I plot to become expats somewhere. I like southern Spain but this hemisphere may have some good options.
03-08-19, 09:21 AM
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Ditto. It's something that struck me recently when looking through pics of my kids. I mean, there are most certainly fewer photos of me, over the entirety of my live, than the number of photos that I've personally taken of my 7-year-old boy. Not only that, but other than my wedding photos, there are very, very few pics of me from my mid-20s to early 30s, that time when adult life kinda kicked in and I wasn't hanging with the friends as much.
03-08-19, 09:29 AM
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Back to the drawing board for you.
03-08-19, 09:38 AM
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