Conv Photos- Around Louisville

This was my very first trip to Kentucky. Getting a chance to visit Louisville was a great introduction to the State. The fall colors really made the feel of the town crisp and comfortable. I loved the bridges! They reminded me of home. It's too bad I couldn't get a night photo of the city lights. They were gorgeous. They even put purple lights on the bridge! While driving around we all got lost a few times, but what a great way to see side streets you never would have traveled to anyways! We also ended up on the University of Louisville campus. I love the sprawl and architecture of the city.

Susie and I met up with Kristen and Tim of Keep's Rabbitry, and we all spent the week in KY together. I have so many memories and laughs from this trip! We all got to go to the Waverly Hills Sanitorium.. which has so many stories and experiences... so that's for another day! I'm so glad we took some time out from the Convention center to go sight-see around the area.

Conv Photos- Airports & Takeoff!

Lines are starting to get long at Delta's Departing section of the airport.

Betty Chu and some of her famous Angoras. We were all leaving from San Francisco.

Jenny H., myself, and Susie C.

Boy, it's going to be a long flight............

Convention Wins!

I had to back-date this post since I was flaking on posting my Convention results.

I only brought one rabbit.. Lil'Bit Farms Harmony. She is a solid senior doe, and the one I felt had the best chance to win in my barn. You know... it only takes one to win, and it held true.

To cut to the chase.. she ended up winning 1st out of 63 does and BOSV SOLID!!!!!

This was such a huge honor and I don't think I can thank her breeder Melanie and Leanne from Lil'Bit Farms Rabbitry enough! They have been so good to me! Thank you so much to Melissa (CA) and Scott (CO) for judging!

Hard to believe..Convention time!

It's beyond hard to believe.. but Convention is here!!!!! 2 days until departure!

I feel bad bragging that I get to go in front of those that don't. I wish I could take everyone with me in my suitcase. But I have been in that position for so many years. Watching everyone else go but myself. Now is my time to actually get to go and enjoy and experience every ounce of it. I am so BEYOND ecstatic! Tonight I will finish up packing (er... or start it. hehehe) and do all my last minute preparations. I need to go to Wally World during lunch to pick up an extra memory card for my camera. I know I will be taking a ton of photos to share. Tomorrow I'll be leaving work early and will pick up Susie (Wooly World Rabbitry) along our drive to the Bay Area. We're staying over with Christina and her mother Tausha (Precious Fuzzy Farm), and going to San Francisco the next morning to leave on the plane. We have a big group of fuzzy breeders on the same departing flight in San Francisco. It is sure to be a morning full of wool!! After the first leg of the flight a lot of us split up, but we will all arrive in the same wonderful destination.. Louisville, KY!

I wont be able to update before I leave... so I want to wish everyone much success and enjoyment in Kentucky. See you there!

Blackjack!

Starlite's Blackjack is one of my up and coming Juniors. He turns Senior today, which is a bummer because I was hoping to enter him in the upcoming Stockton show next weekend. Grrrr! Oh well, maybe I will bring him along to get opinons on. He obviously has mucho maturing to do, but I see so many qualities I like already. He has such thick, short, and great shaped ears. And look at the crown! Perfect position. The bone on his front legs is phenomenal. it is so thick. His body is nice and short and solid as a rock. He has to lose some more of that junior coat so it looks completely black, but we're working on that. He should have a huge head as he finishes up his head moult.. and ages. He is combining two Hobbs lined rabbits I have, Hobbs Dayton (blue) x KAR's Carlie (tort).

Here he is as a cute little baby...

Why so blue baby?

Blue is one of my favorite colors in fuzzy lops. When I was able to buy my first couple I was beyond ecstatic! Leslie Hobbs (Hobbs Habbitry) was the first to let me get ahold of the color and I couldn't wait to get my very own! I don't necessarily "specialize" in the color, but I'm working on them a lot. I don't usually see very many on the show tables anymore, but I'm trying to change that. They can be a challenging variety with possible scattered white hairs and white toenails. You have to pay close attention to the dilution of the blue color as you don't want it to be too light either. I like a nice very deep blue color. Above are some photos of some current blues I have... shown as head shots so you can see the thick fuzzy faces!

Viper & Tulsa

The Summer is feeling practically over. I can say that I am very happy for the bunnies as I know they will appreciate the milder temperatures... but I have hardly got a chance to enjoy the hot weather myself. I think I've only been swimming twice! Ah well, I love the Fall.

The Violet baby I mentioned in my previous post is around 8 weeks old now. He is named Starlite's Viper. See pic above! He has been growing beautifully. I bet he is going to have a very nice dense coat like Violet does. His sire, Hobbs Oh Da Man, is going through his first major moult right now but is looking like he is going to come nicely out of it and look like a whole new bunny!

Lil'Bit Farm's Tulsa was feeling photogenic today so I have lots of photos to share of him: