Steel Valley Cluster
** STEEL VALLEY
CLUSTER **
Canfield Fairgrounds * Canfield Ohio * July 30 & 31
*** August 1 & 2
Beautiful junior handling rosette waiting to be awarded on
Saturday!
CONGRATULATIONS
Shayna Garrison *
BEST Junior Handler !!!
54 Junior Handlers entered! *** Beaver County KC * August 1
A huge thank you to Junior Handling Judge Mr. Richard Terella!
Something to CROW about!
TWO NEW CHAMPIONS!!!!!
NEW CH Thornapple What's The Word "Lingo"
(file photo)
handled by Shayna Garrison * 2009 champion #10
Fort Steuben KC * July
30 * Judge Mr. Dana P. Cline
Winners Dog * Best Of Winners * Best Opposite Sex * 4 pt major!
NEW CH Thornapple Big Girls Don't Cry "Fergie"
(file photo)
handled by Victoria Davidson * 2009 champion #11
Columbiana County KC *
July 31 * Judge Mrs. Minna-Liisa Koltes
Winners Bitch * 4 pt major!
Erica Escalada
* 4th Place Open Senior
Handling
with Ch Thornapple Git R Done "Larry"
Fort Steuben KC * Thursday
July 30 * Judge Mr. Eugene Blake
The Mahonin-Shenango KC * Sunday August 2 * Judge Mr. Michael D. Buckley
Shayna
Garrison
* 1st Place Open
Intermediate Junior Handling
with Ch Thornapple Tougher Shade Of Red "Ringo"
Columbiana County KC *
Friday July 31 * Judge Mr. Walter R. Bebout
Best Junior Handler *
1st Place Open Intermediate Junior Handling
Beaver County KC * August 1
* Judge Mr. Richard Terella
Thornapple Uncensored
beats the heat in Canfield Ohio!
Vikki Davidson shares her ice cream with XXX. Erica Escalada shares her
lap with XXX!
Jonathon, Shayna, Plinko, Evan,
Fracas, Jenny Poe & Thomas ringside on Saturday in Canfield.
Thomas & Evan
3 laps around the fairgrounds
every night!
l-r Coretta, Jenny Poe, Dolce, Victoria Davidson, Fracas, XXX, Evan Brandenburg
Junior Handling competition at
the Steel Valley Cluster * Canfield Ohio
Junior Handling Seminar
Saturday
Saturday conformation photos are coming!
Torrential rains at the
Canfield shows makes departure difficult for many campers including ourselves!
The fairground's front end loader is on the job!
A quick tow .... we say goodbye to our mud puddle! We are heading for home! .... or so we
thought!!!
It's ALWAYS an "aventura"
when the Tapples travel! :)))
360 Fitness after hours gives Evan a huge parking lot to ride his scooter while
we wait for a wrecker.
SURPRISE SURPRISE! TWO sets of travel trailer wheel bearings burn up on
this trip! (new record!)
SMOKIN'
at our last toll booth on I-80! US 23, our highway home, is just ahead!
CRY as we crawl off the turnpike to park into the 360 Fitness parking lot.
A trip home tonight is not to be.
The wheel bearings are gone on the
front driver's side wheel.
Erica, Shayna & Evan play with
the dogs & Aaron rides his scooter while we wait hours for a wrecker.
After waiting for two
wreckers that never showed, finally a nice repair man with tools comes to our
rescue.
Unfortunately, due to the damage done to our wheel, he is unable to install
an extra hub we carry with as a spare.
A decision is made to remove the damaged tire & attempt to drive to Fowlerville
on 3 wheels.
Waiting patiently for the
repair is Erica Escalada & XXX - right Shayna Garrison & Ringo. Far right is
Libby.
PIZZA DELIVERY! DINING IN!
We order Marco's Pizza
delivered to our parking lot!
Finally --- 10pm Sunday --- On The Road Again!
$235 later, Amy white knuckles
the rig pulling the travel trailer on 3 wheels @ 55 mph!
About 15 miles down the road, much to Amy's amazement, BILLOWING SMOKE pours
out of the wheel on the opposite side! LO & BEHOLD -- A SECOND wheel BITES
the DUST!
Stranded on US 23 (1.5 hours from home) at an exit in the middle of nowhere, we
decide to
drive another 5 miles to Cabela's Sporting Goods in Dundee Michigan. Cabela's
has a huge
RV camping lot where RVers are welcome to make themselves at home. We potty dogs
at
midnight & prepare to hunker down for the night. Unfortunately our generator
will not run,
we've used the last of our dog water & Erica lost her cell phone somewhere in
this disaster.
It's an adventure!!!!
(Please pardon the large smudge in the middle of the camera lens :))
Man's work!
Once again, it's Grandpa Tom & Evan to the rescue! Tom drives to Dundee early
Monday AM armed with tools!
Tom and Evan repack all of our wheels best they can with the parts available
... good enough to get us home!
The GOOD NEWS is --- Thanks to Tom & Evan, we have NEW HEAVY DUTY 8500# rated
axels and huge new
tires that will be installed before our next trip. This should spell the END to all of our
bearing problems FOREVER!
We took the opportunity of our surprise "vacation" day to take Evan inside
Cabela's.
He loves the fresh water aquariums and all of the stuffed big game animals!
After Cabela's, while Tom slaved, we enjoyed a nice walk to Bob Evan's for
breakfast. 1:00 pm & a turkey sandwich later for Tom, we are on the road again!
Tom tows the travel trailer with his truck leaving us in the white van headed
for home. We arrive home safely late Monday afternoon!
Thank you TOM for skipping work once again to bail us out!
On the road again! Thank you Grampy!
