We pushed hard and put in a long day driving on Saturday to make it to Wally and Bev’s in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The girls seemed happy to be back on the road and just as happy to get out and stretch their legs in TX on a Sunday to kick back and R&R before continuing on the road home. The hospitality and accommodations for both our goats and us were wonderful as usual. We all needed the rest and stretch and greatly appreciated it before heading out early Monday morning for our final home stretch.



We had a leisurely Sunday morning after sleeping in and enjoyed the morning rest with good company and it was obvious even the dogs had a great time enjoying the friendships.


Piglet is Trudy’s little companion and was our traveling buddy across country, she gave us all some moments to laugh about during the trip.



After lounging around and sharing National show news, Wally and Bev took us out for Sunday brunch to one of their favorite little TX diners.

When we’d finished the scrumptious brunch Wally took us for a drive to visit his neighbor who was harvesting his wheat off one of his parcels. During the drive back we came across a deer crossing the road (to get to the other side...haha) but all I was able to catch of the young buck was his tail end.





Once back again, the day was quickly coming to a close and Monday morning was coming all to soon. I took pleasure in Wally’s small cattle herd and couldn’t resist snapping a few photos of his fine-looking beef cattle.




As sunset quickly approached, we went outside to take in the last bit of the day outside together.


I had always loved our Barn Swallows in MN and when Beverly pointed out their nest on their front porch it brought back a flood of memories and my love of the little birds.




Almost home and I still never tire of the beauty of the Southwest.

These are a few more highlights of the 2010 National show, which were special to me. ADGA’s National show photographer Steve Pope took this photo. He’d taken this candid photo of us in the championship lineup. It’s actually the only rear udder shot I have of Pudd’n at the 2010 Nationals due to the time restraints happening in those moments of her win and a milk out for Best & Res. Best Udder. She looked so beautiful and she knew it.
Here are our two beautiful awards; the pottery piece platter we received for Res. National Champion and the pitcher was awarded for Res. National Best Udder.

Don & Lee Jackson of New Rocky Comfort Nubians owns and operates a successful business called Buck Run Pottery, creating stunning hand made stoneware. They had been commissioned by ADGA to provide the trophies for the 2010 ADGA National Show. Don and Lee had a booth set up at the show, displaying some of their work. In this photo of Don and Lee standing in their booth, you may have noticed a little paper mache goat with them. She was a little paper mache piece I made on a whim and a last minute idea for our club that was hosting the ADGA convention in 2010. She was named Tucson by majority vote of our members and became SADGA’s mascot, traveling across the United States and abroad, promoting the 2010 ADGA Convention that was held in Tucson AZ. in October of 2010, hosted by our local club SADGA. Tucson was carried about during the week of the Nationals getting lots of photo opts and was generally a lot of fun.

Here is Tucson held by ADGA's 2009-2010 Youth reps, Hannah and Bethany

The Kitchen's have been a staple for many years at the both the ADGA Nationals and ADGA Conventions over the years, so getting a photo opt with them was fun!

Here she went with Caroline into the Wine & Cheese banquet.

These last two pictures I treasure which were taken of Evin Evans of Split Creek Dairy as she handled the show secretary that day for one of the breeds.