Zutphen 2009

We are very glad to inform you that Vienna made 1Excl. JCAC, CAC and best female at the show in Zutphen last weekend!
Thanks Anja for showing here in the ring and also Jurgen for handling here when Anja was together with Mexx in the ring (he made best male, JCAC, CAC and BOB)! Congrats to Hub for Mexx also!
At this early stage it's very nice to see she is getting into shape and being appreciated by the judge. On to the next one!

First picture of Qannik and Galinka on the step ...

Update: added a small movie of a trip in the forrest.



Here is it then, the first picture of them both doing a small round around the block, first steps so we still are letting the dogs get used to pulling.
They enjoy every bit of it ;)

Eerste tocht met de nieuwe step ...

Gisteren zijn we de nieuwe step kunnen gaan ophalen die we via de kennel Narmenak (zie links aan de rechter kant) hadden gekocht en deze is vanmorgen de eerste maal uitgetest.

Qannik en Galinka hadden iets van "dat apparaat hebben we nog al eens gezien" en hadden er gelijk zin in. ;)

De step eerst buiten geplaatst en daarna de honden de riem en het harnas even aangedaan. Na een kleine pitstop werden beiden voor de step geplaatst en de lijn aan het harnas vastgeklikt. Toen kon de korte tocht beginnen (eerst in het begin laten wennen aan het trekken voor de step). Ze reageerden al heel goed op de commando's haw en gee bij het aankomen van kruisingen, zelfs straight viel nog goed mee totdat we langs een huis kwamen waar een kleine roedel hondjes zaten die druk in de weer waren om het die van ons wat moeilijker te maken (moeten we in de volgende rondjes even vermijden). Daar er nog niemand voor hun liep welke ze voorbij wilden rennen viel het tempo in het begin ook nog goed mee, we willen ze ook niet op korte tijd op zien branden omdat we teveel van ze gaan verwachten.

We hebben al enkele goede tips meegekregen van Frank en Tineke toen we de workshop bij hen gevolgd hadden, alsook nog even van Frank toen we de step gingen ophalen.

Het begin was alvast belovend .... nu nog een routine opstellen voor een trainingsschema ... wordt vervolgd. ;)

Dog Show Echt ...

Another one passed. And we are very proud on the results of our beautiful Galinka and how she has been turning around in the past months.
Qannik made a very nice 2nd place in the open class ans so did Galinka! both with Excellent result. ;) Vienna is still learning but we are confident that she will do great when she grows older! ;)

After the show when the weather dimmed a bit down they all deserved a nice play in the yard and in the watter.









Galinka hiding (not very well though) :D



Benji as always keeping an eye on things ...



Qannik cooling of his feet ...



Yalko after a cool refreshment ...



And Jessie trying to avoid the others :P

Lommel 2009

It has been a little quit with the show we were running in the last months. Having Vienna new to the pack was our first concern and socializing the new puppy with the dogs here and outside was one thing we wanted to do.
But last Sunday we attended the show in Lommel and went in with Qannik and Vienna of Nikolatsjka (Vienna's first time in puppy class), and Galinka d'Abajomy.
Qannik made a well deserved (although I just as gladly would have seen in the first place) ;) 2'nd Excl. (U) in the open class, Galinka in her turn made 6'nd VG (ZG). Vienna made 3'd VP (VB) and is a promising dog for the future.
On to the next one! (Genk ... here we come) ;)

PS. Congrats Anja & Ron (Nikolatsjka) with Moony (Love me sweet of Silverlight) on getting here Belgian Champion title (she already was International Champion and now she can add this one to here list)!

Also congrats to Nancy with Dysco (Tundrafoot's Bern Baby Bern) who made BOB and ended up 4th BIS!

Educating ...

I've been doing a course as Network Administrator since a few months (hence the lack of time in porting games lately) and am glad to announce that I passed my Linux exams and my first CCNA1 exams!! On to the next ones!! (comming up are CCNA2 and Windows 2003 server, consumer routers, command line, scripting and much more - and this over a total period of time 7 months!) ;)

Our dogs

Just some quick shots from last weekend. ;)

Ambiorix cup Genk

Yesterday we attended the dog show in Genk with our 3 dogs, Qannik, Galinka and Vienna.
For Vienna it was here first debut and she did a real good job too! ;)

Qannik entered in the ring and finished 4th VG, Galinka made 3 Exc and Vienna made 3 VP (out of 5 pups). All in all not to bad results ;)

Vienna was very focused when she entered the ring and gave the best she had to give, playful waggling here tail and giving kisses to everyone who comes in short distance of here head ;).



Qannik is still my king and has grown out to be a very beautifull male.



Galinka is really getting into it and showing better then ever at the moment, we are really happy about the way she progressed in the last months.



Sarah also entered with Vienna in Junior-handling and finished 5th! Congrats to both. ;)



We'd like to congratulate Nancy with here dog Tundrafoot's Bern Baby Bern, she made BOB and finished 1st in BIG! A great dog. :D

Show Antwerps ...

Last sunday we attended the show in Antwerps with Qannik.

He finished 2nd Exc. just after Ambassador ... (congrats there) ;)

I also want to thank my wife Lisette for handling Qannik, she did a real good job!



Sarah joined us and did junior handling with Gimbya and is still learning the art of handling, she's doing a nice job and even went into the ring with Vienna to get here familiar with the ring and running.



Onward to Genk where we'll be showing Qannik, Galinka and for the first time Vienna! :-D

Update ... ;)

Vienna has been settling just fine with us over the last weeks, she is doing great with Qannik and Galinka as well as with Yalko, Benji and Jessy. In house she likes to fool around with Galinka and outside it's mostly Jessy or Benji who have to suffer here (sometimes overwhelming) games. ;-)

Here favorite job is still digging in the earth ... making here way to China it seems at times. :D



Then again ... she learned from the master. ;)



Big paw from Qannik and Galinka also. ;)

Vienna is home! ;)

Vienna is home!!! ;) First thing to do was to inspect the new place with the visitor that came along with me to my new place.

On arival she's had a line already on here tail.


hmm ... is this also a dog??


Inspection!!! .... who is crossing my paths here?!! ;)


Ah! ... visitors on my first day. Cool runnings!! ;)


Ok ... time to do some calm inspections on the place ... the others seem to be busy ...


More to come ... for now she's having a well deserved rest.

Peel and Maas Challenge 2009 ...

Last weekend the international Peel and Maas Challenge was raced again ... sadly enough I wasn't around to go and see and have some talk with competitors and visitors, fellow sled dog lovers. ;)
Below you'll find a movie showing the dogs in action and a few short interviews.

For more info check out musher.nl

Check the link below for a short television report on the event.
http://www.heldentv.nl/video--68

Elive meets Compiz!

Most of you know that I'm not the biggest fan of the 'most used operating system' and use other OS's that fill my need. Also my love for BeOS still remains and is getting a boost with the progress Haiku is making with each step forward. As a side note I sometimes try out other linux distro's (using xubuntu as my main OS atm) and one of them is Elive. A very fast system build on the Enlightenment window manager.
Compiz on the other hand brought nice effects to the os.
Well words can only say so much ... take a look at the video and let it impress you in a way words can't. ;)



This is a Special version of Elive for compiz-lovers, if you want a Stable system use a normal Elive version instead. Ecomorph is in development and you could have some errors or strange problems in your graphical system. You are warned, but in any case we invite you to enjoy it :)

Check out the website and download the live CD version (no need to install if you don't like it ... you can run it from the CD).

Upcomming events ...

14-02-2009
Rheinlandsiegerschau 2009
21-03-2009
31e K.V.N. show der Hopstreek
05-04-2009
Dogshow Brabo 2009

KC De Kempen Eindhoven

Yesterday it was time to go to a dogshow again, it has been 2 months already since we visited the last one. ;)

In Eindhoven it was the annual KC De Kempen dog show. Inside the exhibition hall it was crowded and packed with all competitors and a great variety of dogs.

We entered as always with Qannik and Galinka, Qannik made a nice 3 Exc. in the male section and Galinka made 1 Excl.! bringing here the first youthCAC!! Congrats to Galinka and Lisette.



Thanks to judge T. Johnston (Ierland) for his fine judging.

Galinka really made a big jump forward and we are very happy to see here as she is at the moment.

On to the next one! ;)

SDL Games working again in Haiku!!!

Yes! We are back on par with SDL games on Haiku. Seems that there was a problem with the sdl_image library, but after a fresh new compile I managed to get the games back working again.

Time to start enjoying Fish Fillets NG, TuxMath, TuxPaint, TuxType, ScummVM and all the other games again!!!

For the game downloads head over to ZETA-Games. ;)

Vienna update ...

Hi there .... another week has passed and she's getting bigger by the week. We are very happy with the way she is progressing every week, she is going to be a real hart breaker if she keeps it up that way. ;)

Ron is trying to let me go into pose! ;)



Doesn't she have a pretty mask/face! ;)

Vienna of Nikolatsjka

As of the beginning of next month we are glad to welcome Vienna into our family. We've been looking forward for here for over half a year by now (since it was decided that her mother was going to be bred). Finally it's getting closer and we can't wait to get her into our midst.

Vienna is born on 9-12-2008 and is a daughter from Mike of Nikolatsjka and Love me Sweet of Silverlight (Int.Chmp.) You will be seeing more photo's from here now and then but if you want to follow closer you can always hop over to .

Here's already a photo for you to enjoy (she's 5 weeks in this picture)



Update (she's now 5,5 weeks in this picture)

Snow snow snow .... ;)

It's been long since we've had this much snow in our place .. so all the more reason to let you all in a little view where the dogs are playing in the yard here. Enjoy !













The none sled dogs ;)

ps. they enjoyed a good run and play in the snow as much as the others. ;)

Happy holidays!

For all of you out there reading this blog (and even those who don't even know yet, merry xmas and a happy newyear.
May you have all the best comming to you in the next year.