Getting to the Salt Lake City National Pigeon Show

As my only post showed I won Champion and Reserve champion at the first show of the year on the west coast. The next show was in Fresno where I excited to win four color classes and my second reserve champion with the bird that had won champion the show before. I was extremely happy with this show because for me to have two judges put my bird in the top two let me know I had a bird that needed to go to the National. Two weeks later I showed her again in southern California where she was in the final six birds with a judge from Oklahoma that had never seen my birds doing the judging. I new that I wanted to take her to the National but what I did not know was how I was going to afford doing it. I do have a page on a website http://slobberknockerlofts.com/ . So I started selling my extra pigeons as I did I arranged my flight and split a room with a buddy of mine. I was able with the help of my dad to sell enough birds to fly to Salt Lake and pay for my room and food while I was there and not take any money out of my pocket my birds paid for my trip. At this show my little cream hen faced its best competition from a nice cream hen brought in by Amir Turkanovic which ended up winning the class and ended up winning Champion of the show. Now I am thinking back and extremely happy that I have a wife that lets me fly off and go to shows. Now I am excited as I have mated all my birds up and just sold all of my extra hens and a group of a friend of mines cock birds to help me re-up my website and pay for rooms in Nevada for my daughters AAU Basketball tournaments That is another story for another night.

Starting this blog because

Well first off I am starting this blog because my wife has been asking me to for about a year she said I should have a sports blog since I live them. I am a big time LA Dodger fan as well as the Lakers football since I started playing fantasy football I have no favorite team. For my birthday my wife bought me a ticket for game two against the Phillies so I got to see there only win in the series. Another reason I started this blog is because I am a stay at home dad with five daughters ranging from almost 16 to 2. my three year old was diagnosed with type one Diabetes when she was 22 months old and tonight her blood sugar has been in the 40's and now in the 50's. So I am doing this to help me stay awake so that I can keep checking her. As my Blog name says I do raise pigeons as a hobby I will be posting pictures at another time. This is something that I have been doing for about 6 years my dad has been doing it my whole life. I go to shows and take my kids I have had the pleasure to Judge once and won reserve champion last year this year has started out great. At the first show I sent 6 birds and won Champion and reserve Champion which means out of the 134 Fantails there I had the two best that day. On that Same weekend my 13 year old daughters team won their first Fast-pitch Softball tournament. That was a great weekend Dodger game Friday my pigeons won Saturday and my daughter won her tournament on Sunday. I just checked her sugar it is at 88 so I will be up for at least another 30 minutes. Wow I need to be up in a five hours to take my 13 year old to honors choir practice. Oh yeah my beautiful wife works from 3 to 3:30 am three night a week and this is one of them. There has not been much sports talk but that will come in time right now I am worried about my little girl.