June Puppies Planned

Luther

This litter will be linebred on Luther through two of his sons.

  The sire will be CH Merrythought The Keeping Quilt, a grandson of Rocky, 

Keeper

Rocky

and the dam is our "Coffee", Beistshemesh Cafe Au Lait, a daughter of Sterling. 

Coffee

Sterling

 All puppies will be black and white with brindle points.  

I cannot begin to explain the excitement I have for this stunning pedigree!

Happy National Dog Day!

My men!

Five Generations

It all started with

Demi (8/12/01-3/4/06) 

CH Cornerstone Visions Demin N Lace ROM Silver

her son, Luther!

GCH CH Visions I Have A Dream, RN, PT, TT, CGC

Luther's son, Sterling!

Int. (FCI European Countries)/American/South African CH Coedwig's Silversmith at Beitshemesh

Owned by Dr. Errol Sundelowitz of Beitshemesh Cardigans in Johannesburg, South Africa

Luther's grand daughter and Sterling's daughter, Coffee!
Beitshemesh Cafe Au Lait

and Luther's great grand son, Blaze!

Beitshemesh Blazing Saddles 

 

New Grand Champion!

LUTHER! GCH Visions I Have A Dream, RN, PT, TT, CGC

Day Six

Ferdinand is growing like a weed!  Hush continues to be a wonderful mum.

Day Three

We unfortunately lost the little girl at hours old.  The boy, now known as Ferdinand, is growing like a weed!

Meet Lucy & Ricky

Hush had two puppies today via c-section.  The girl is on the left (6.5 oz) and the boy is on the right (10 oz.).  Both seem to be very active and fat.  Hush is being a great mum!

A week to go...

Tentative due date is June 26th.  You can email me at visions(at)nycap.rr.com for a link to view our new web cam!

Getting things ready...

We're starting to get things ready!  Our new puppy pen arrived and everyone, including Hush, approves of it as our new whelping box.  The pig rail and bumper pads will be added.  This will definitely be a big saver on my back.

Sixteen days and counting!

Summer Litter in the works

Puppies will be due the end of June.  We are very excited about this combination!
All colors, other than blue merle and "ee red", are possible.

Sire: CH Visions I Have A Dream TT, RN, PT, CGC CHIC #51575, aka "Luther"
(CH Cornerstone Coedwig's Dreamer ROM Gold
x CH Cornerstone Visions Denim N Lace ROM Silver)
Sire and Grandsire of Specialty Winners!
Group Placer!
Two singles shy of his Grand Championship.

Dam: CH Heritage Hill Say No Moore, aka "Hush"
(Multi CH Shadowalk Trademark ROM Gold x CH Heritage Hill Nuff Said)
Finished with 5 majors.
WB/BBE at the Del Val Specialty.
BOS in Sweeps at the Chesapeake Specialty.

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What a weekend!

It started with Luther becoming the proud father of 10 on Saturday. The dam is CH Mantle Sunspark Razzle Dazzle. They have 9 boys (4 blue, 5 black) and 1 black girl - beautifully marked with NO mismarks!

Today was a super day! Hush was Winners for her 5th major (this one 4 points) to finish her championship! *Pending AKC confirmation, Hush is officially known as *CH Heritage Hill Say No Moore.

Newest Luther pups have arrived!

Luther and CH Mantle's Journey to Terabithia presented the Sunspark/Kantasia crew with 8 pups, 4 blue males, 3 blue bitches and 1 black bitch.

No mismarks (again)!

You can see photos of the pups on their blog.

Luther in Primm

Thank you Renay for these photos! I miss my boy but know he is having a great time where it is warm. Here we just finished snow storm #2.

A good weekend!

Luther had his first show weekend in over a year, and in the opposite corner of the country with people he barely knows... In Primm, NV, Saturday he was Best of Breed over 3 other specials for his first major and on Sunday he was Select Dog for his second major for his first 8 points towards his Grand Championship.

Miss Hush was Best Opp in Sweepstakes on Saturday at the Maryland Specialty.

Spot, now known as Isabella, lives 8 miles away with a wonderful family and her new mum, a 12 year old girl, who has always wanted a Cardigan Welsh Corgi. As she left, I said that dreams do come true. Yes they do.

Overall it was a very nice weekend!

MACH Olivia, Luther's Vacation and a pup-date!!

Lots of stuff going on and I have finally found the time to blog all about it!!

Yesterday morning I got a joyous phone call from Barb Miller to say that Olivia got her MACH!!!
Thank you Barb for "dreaming BIG" with our "Little Dream"!!And for some more news...
On Saturday, Luther flew to Phoenix, AZ. There he is visiting Renay & Jon Crooker and Karen and Shannon Wilson of Sunspark & Kantasia for the winter! What a lucky dog - his humans left behind here in New York wish we could be snow birds too!

Traveling with Luther was Bart, the boy puppy from Snickers x Dallas. He is officially known as Visions Royal Fortune and will be residing in AZ. For now he is the last pup to leave. I may be looking for a show home for Miss Spot once she is back from her Boston vacation with Katrin, assisted by Julie.

The girls we have kept are...Visions Red Sky At Night, aka "Sailor"

andVisions Sapphire Seas, aka "Sea-Sea".

Del Val Specialty

What a gorgeous day today has been! The sun was out, a beautiful breeze was blowing...

Last night I drove down from New York, stayed with our good friend, Genie, and was off today for the Del Val Specialty. This was only the 2nd time I have been able to go to this lovely show in PA. BTW... how many of you have heard of Ludwig's Corner, PA? Weather.com could not even find it!

But, it seems that Pastor Jim from Trinity Lutheran Church was a past pastor at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Ludwig's Corner! And it was only 1 mile from the show site. Since we were early, we did a quick detour and took this photo of St. Matthew's.

Isn't it just gorgeous in the morning glow?

Hush happened to be in season, but Debbie Moore was still willing to show her. It was a great call as she was Winners Bitch and Best Bred By! Thank you judge Steve Gladstone!! Here is all her loot...

Debbie was a real trooper as she then took Luther in for me, and he was a wild man since "his girl" was in season. Genie had Sabrina's brother (and Luther's half-brother), Tiller. Both boys were awarded Awards of Merit! Hush's half-sister was Best of Opposite.

I must say that this was a great show weekend! Congratulations to all the winners! There were some lovely dogs present.

And, thank you Penni for the "good luck" pendant as it certainly worked today!

Let sleeping dogs lie...

Luther, in his favorite sleeping position...

And Emma is thrilled to have Hush as her new best friend! The girls are inseparable!

They even decided to chew their nylabones together in Luther's crate.

Needless to say, Hush is fitting in wonderfully!

Oh! Remember this beautiful necklace I was given by Penni?

You should have seen Hush chase the yellow butterfly in the dog yard yesterday. And the beautiful, but stupid, bug landed directly in front of her. Yup, it was eaten... but the expression on Hush's face when she caught it was priceless! Alas, no camera available at the time...

New Photos

Luther & Lacey's son, Chief, going WD/BOW at his first show, just one week past his 6 month birthday. Officially known as Visions Mischief Maker at Shady Ridge, he is owned/handled/co-bred by Pat Sawtelle.

Star, Visions Dreams Come True, winning her first major. Yes this was back from November, but I was just given the photo. Yes, she is stark naked in this photo. No, the handler did not get a photo of her 2nd major won at Philadelphia.

Sabrina and Luther just taken with my cell phone this afternoon, looking very content on our bed. Luther and his littermates turned 5 on Saturday. I could not find it in me to celebrate his birthday as it is still very bittersweet for me, even though 5 years have past. I may just have to have a combo birthday party in April for both him and Sabrina.

Chief update

Luther x Lacey pupdate! Chief, Visions Mischief Maker at Shady Ridge, owned and co-bred by Pat Sawtelle, was WD/BOW for his first 2 points! What a great show debut!!