Today we went to aFlemish Specialty and All Breedshow in Columbia City, Indiana and there was some really great Flemish there!
Velvet the blue doe won Best of Variety.
Lilly the light gray doe won BestOpposite of Show and Best of Variety.
Barney the steel buck came in 4th because of a molt he started this past week.
Sweetie the black doe came in 3rd, compared to the other black does there she looked small! The other exhibitors must be putting miracle grow in there Flemmies water bottles!
The open all breed show for the Flemish was very disappointing. The judge for the Flemish open show was taking several business calls and while he was on the phone rushed through the youth portion of the Flemish, disqualifying 4 out 5 in less then a minute. The writers could not even ask him for comments because he was on the phone telling one of his employees about deliveries etc. The ones he disqualified were rabbits that placed well in the Flemish speciality show earlier.
Sweetie, Barney and Velvet were disqualified in the open show. Lilly who had won Best of Show and Best of Variety in the specialty show took 3rd in the open. This judge normally judges the smaller breeds and the organizers had to do some reshuffling because he was two hours late and so they had to move him to judge the Flemish.
This was the first time I was upset about a judge. I spoke of my concerns to the secretary of the show only because he was spending so much time on the phone when he was suppose to be judging and because of the vast discrepancies between what the other exhibitorsand I had received in theFlemish speciality earlier and the Flemish open show. If there had not been such a huge difference and had the judge not been on the phone I wouldn't havebeen upset.
Still the family had a great time and we were able to get together with some old neighbors/close friendsin Fort Wayne before we came home. It was one long day though, we left our house at 5:45 am and didn't get home until 9:00 pm.Friday night was family fun night at my daughters school, so when that was done we came home and got things ready for the rabbit show, Igot to bed around midnight and was up at 4:45 am Saturday.
We were done with the show around 1pm Saturday, but we then drove to our old neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana and took a look at how things had changed since we moved and later went out to eat with our friends and one of their daughters (who use to baby sit our kids, talk about feeling old) and her 3 little boys.
What a day, I would be in bed now, but I drank a lot of caffeine earlier and I feel tired but not sleepy. Time for a hot bath and bed.
