Happy New Year!!! We made it to 2021!!

 Happy New Year to all of you!  We finally made it to 2021.  There is a vaccine for the Corona Virus and hopefully that will be effective and we can finally gather in meaningful ways.   For now, let's all dream, and plan, and BE KIND to one another.  



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New Champion *Ch* Acadia's Life Lock

Lockit finished the championship in the Pandemic era of "no shows".  2020 has been a strange year for all of us.  There hasn't been a lot of good news or things to be excited about, but for me, a new Champion is both Good News, and Exciting!

Lockit is co-owned with Sandra Gardner, the owner of his sire, GCh. Apple Acres Firewall, "Norton".   


 

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In Living Color-

This is the most colorful litter of puppies we have ever had.  Vivienne is a sable merle.  She was bred to a Bi-black.   She had bi-factored sables and bi-factored sable merles.  It is a really pretty group.

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Congratulations to the 5 new title holders

Sheltie Pedigree Lines  is a great service to sheltie breeders.  This site is a historic and current record of sheltie genealogy.  I use it constantly to test out possible stud dogs and the pedigree compatibility with my girls.

One of the services of this site is that they keep track of new title holders.   I enjoy seeing the new title holders. The site has two lists, one for new Champions, and one for new performance titles.  When I just looked, there are 5 Acadia bred shelties on the new performance title holder list.  On this blog I updated Lucy's title to reflect her MACH.  Congratulations to all!!  I am a proud breeder!

Acadia Don't Rain On My Parade, SWN, SCA, SIA, SHDN  (Rain)
(Ch. Acadia Rock Star, HT x Ch. Acadia It's My Treat)
Owned/Loved/Trained by: Phyllis Sanders

Ch. Acadia Independence Day, CD, RAE, BN  (Mason)
(GCh. Barwood Clearsky Fireworks, ROM x GCh. Acadia Serenity)
Owned/Loved/Trained by: Anita Rhawn

Acadia Teagan Rose,CDX, NF, NFP  (Teagan)
(GCh. Solange Surround Sound, ROM, ROMC  x GCh. Acadia Presence of Mind)
Owned/Loved/Trained by: Dr. Amy Scheiner

MACH Acadia's Catch Me If You Can, CDX, RAE, BN, XF, GO, T2B, GN, THDN  (Lucy)
(Ch. Heart Lake Acadia Le Roi De Couer x Ch. Acadia Peace of Mind)
Owned/Loved/Trained by: LeaAnne Thorne

Acadia's Keep It Simple, CGC, TKN  (Muffin)
(Acadia's Stage Director x Acadia Keep It Simple)
Owned/Loved/Trained by: Phillip Meyer & Ann Pomeroy-Meyer

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Acadia's Life Lock- aka- Lockit

This is my cute puppy, Lockit.  Today he was Winners' Dog for his first point.  This picture is of him going Reserve Winners' Dog at a sheltie specialty.  He is 7 months old and doing great at the shows.  I am excited about this young guy. 

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New *MACH* Acadia's Catch Me If You Can, RAE, CDX, XF, GO, T2B, Therapy Dog


Look at that MACH Ribbon!!! 
Congratulations to LeaAnne and Lucy!  Today they completed the AKC Agility Championship which is called the Master Agility Champion (MACH).   LeaAnne writes,
 "Today was an amazing day for Lucy and I! We got our MACH title!
She is now MACH Acadia’s Catch Me If You Can, RAE, CDX, GO, XF, T2B, Therapy Dog.  In order to get your MACH you have to have 750 points and 20 double qualifying runs out of the Master classes. At this level your runs have to be perfect. You get points for speed and have to qualify in both of your Master Standard and Master Jumpers runs on the same day 20 times. The journey has been a long time coming for us and there was a time that I wasn’t sure if we would make it. She moved up to the Master classes when she was 3 years old, but by the time she was 6 we had just 200 points and we were just getting our first Double Q. She has always been a sassy little girl and had a problem with flying off the contact obstacles, which caused her not to get her first Master points out of the Standard class until she was 6. This is the year that we really started to come together as a team. Her best year was as a 7 year old, collecting 250 points and 10 QQ’s.

Overall she finished with 2 first places, which she got today, 1 second place, five 3rd places and nine fourth place finishes in a very tough 12in class. This is my first MACH title, so it is super special! Thanks to Cadie Pruss for breeding such a beautiful, well rounded Sheltie. She has been such a joy to work with and everyone thinks she is the cutest!"
LeaAnne, Lucy and judge Steve Larrison

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Meet our new addition: Jesstar Vanity Fair

Jesstar Vanity Fair- pictured at 10 months
Meet Vivienne.  She joined our family recently and she is expecting puppies the first week of February.  Vivienne stepped out of her crate, coming from warm Florida to cold Idaho and was happy to be "home".  She fit right in immediately and we feel very fortunate to have her join us.

She is a sable merle.  Shelties have two base coat colors, black and sable.  The merle gene is a dilution gene that in a base of black dilutes to create the Blue merle.  In a base of sable, the merle gene dilutes to a sable with patches of diluted sable.  These pictures of Vivienne don't show the patches very well.  I will take pictures of her after she has puppies that show her true colors.

Jesstar Vanity Fair- pictured at 10 months

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Closer to Home- family history

Sometimes, you are closer to "home" than you realize.
Open Door Congregational Church "The original Settlers' Church"- Deer Park, Washington
My Great-Grandfather, William Hodges Short, Sr., was an original settler of Deer Park, Washington.  He and his family built and ran a boarding house and worked in the timber industry.  He also donated the land for the town church and personally selected the wood in the sanctuary. This picture of him hangs in the church office.  He donated the land for the cemetery too.  
The church fronted Railway Ave- and the train tracks, and the name 'Open Door' reflected the policy of leaving the doors unlocked so people "riding the rails" could take shelter.
Sometimes Idaho feels so far from my upbringing in New England, but visiting the church, the town my family was so invested in, and the spirit of love, faith, community, and really, community in the widest sense possible- that made me realize that I am not as far from "home" as I might be feeling.
This is the "new" front of the church and it faces Main St.
 The original front to the church- facing the train tracks. The square "stack" was the original bell tower. There have been modifications to this side (since now it is the back). The modifications to this church has been minimal since 1909 when the sanctuary was expanded.

In 1909 the original structure was deemed too small and the changes were made. The original founders were involved in the expansion. The church as remained as it since then.
 The communion table and platform chairs are the original from the 1909 church enlargement.

The sanctuary is heavily trimmed in Larch which was personally selected by my great-grandfather. A church brochure says, "One will look in vain for a knot or a pitch-pocket and will be struck by the craftsmanship required to install the trim."

The pews were hand-built as were the communion table and the platform chairs
This Stained glass is the Original



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