I wanna go home - Page 3

Shelley I have been dying for you to make that move. Sounds like I'm not the only one who would hit you up for some training sessions. If you got settled in, I'm sure you could start your own club in no time. But I know whats holding you back. In due time girl, in due time.

Shelly,

There is still cheap land in Lake County and places to rent.  There are possibilities in Santa Rosa area.

I have a fenced half acre but no kennels.

Vera Reeves and Betty Evans of DVG have a ranchette in the town I live in.  www.athertonacres.com/

Where I live I have no air conditioner and winters are very mild.

Where did you live in California?

 I don,t want to let the cat out of the bag but i miss home also but it,s impossible to get back to Krypton since it,s not there any more.

I was born in Marin County, raised in Los Altos Hills, (20 miles slouth of SF) and lived the last fifteen years I was in CA in the Central Valley. (Mostly Yuba City, but 2 yrs in Modesto)  I remember Vera from Dean's training group. Actually Sue Wheeler and I started a club in '89 or '90 called Feather River SchH Club (now defunct) I would probably try to raise it back up out of the ashes if I moved back home. It was a good little club till my ex and his friend ran it into the ground awhile back. Lake County is pretty nice. Not so hot as Sacramento Valley in summer but not so much nice tracking as I had in the valley. (We had permission for about 20,000 acres, mostly finely-disced dirt) Still, you gotta love Clear Lake.

As you can tell I get very homesick here, especially in the winter. I have pneumonia for the third time in 2.5 mos., and am black and blue already from falling on the ice. I spent a good part of yesterday calling friends back home, especially Peggy Park because I always used to spend Christmas and TG with them. Going to San Jose for a week for the UScA Sieger show last spring only made it worse. I think my time in the frozen north is coming to an end. I just can't take the climate here like people who were born here seem to be able to. My training field is either under water or solid ice from about Oct. to May. Not fit for man nor beast. the only tracking I have access to here is pretty awful. Very depressing.

I feel certain T, Goofball Jed, Portia, Ali, & Bijou would be perfectly happy in Northern CA. The housing prices are finally coming down. So who knows? Maybe I can go home one of these days.

Thanks all,

SS

My family is considering moving down to Texas, most of my family is scattered across Florida, Oklahoma, Colorado and California, there's just a niche of us hangin out in Michigan and Ohio.   Oklahoma is NASTY during the summer if you're not used to 100+ degrees and HUMID.  But Texas runs the whole gamut of terrains and tempuratures, plus there is no state income tax and they're a lot more friendly to the average workin' American joe who wants to protect their family and property.....My brother-in-law's got an uncle down there with a farm and I've been told you better call him ahead of time, because if you pull up his driveway and he's not expecting you he's liable to shoot your vehicle with a shotgun, and the law down there would back him up for doin' so.

Any yays or nays for Texas? 

Shelley, whats your thoughts on movin' to Texas?

Lived there, you couldn't pay me to go back!

Depends on what part of Texas. The only places I have been are Dallas (HUMID!) Amarillo (dry wasteland) and El Paso (also a dry wasteland)  I did see some nice country driving from Dallas to Amarillo (on my way to Casper, WY once) kind of hilly and very beautiful in summer.

Texas and CA are like  small countries IMO- lots of different landscapes and climates. I just haven't seen enough of it and only been there in spring/summer. One thing I did notice is that Texans are very friendly! No one is a stranger standing in line at the supermarket check-out in Texas. By the time you get to the front door with your basket you are friends for life, having exchanged life-stories in 20 min. It drove my German handler crazy. :-D  But I loved it.

SS

Kiddo... we only get one life... live it where your heart tells you... don't wait and have to live with  "I wish I had done......"    The things  we regret the most are the ones we never did.......

A couple more bouts of pneumonia and I won't  ever make it to the state line. Boy, am I tired of being sick.

SS

Would you like some cheese with your whine???LOL LOL LOL  I am just north of chicago on the lake and border with wisconsin.  Yea it is shitty weather but just watching the shepherds train and play makes it worth while.I call em snow dogs . The helpers say we get more training acomplished in these winter months than the warm months cause it is pleasant for the dogs.