New residents of Iowa

Well we just recently moved to the Iowa City area for a 3 year term in which my wife Erin is doing a hi risk OB fellowship at the university hospital. We found a nice little farm house a couple miles out of town on 4 or 5 acres with a barn and our landlord is great in letting us have the hounds here. Due to my inability to get to many grouse trials, I left Coco with Robert Ecker before I left. I do however hope to get a pigeon coup set up as I have a male pup coming from Scott Berg in Minnesota out of Frank Lanassa's Northwoods Nirvanna dog and a nice female Scott owns, and possibly another pup as well. We are planning on probably breeding Coco one more time, most likely next winter or possibly this winter, but less likely (sort of depends on if she makes the invitational, as she has a decent amount of points from her Runner-up championship this spring). Right now I am looking at either this Northwoods Nirvanna dog my pup is coming from or Sean Derrig's nice young male Erin's Hidden Shamrock who I have heard great things about. Both dogs are related, the first out of Houston's Blackjack, and the latter out of his littermate Ridgcreek Cody, who he himself is also an option. Waiting to see all of these dogs a little more and see who complements her the best. In the meantime I am staying with the kids and am looking forward to start a young dog or two. In other news I have also been asked to judge the Wisconsin Grouse Championship this fall and accepted, so will be spending the first weekend in October up there looking at the best the area has to offer in grouse dogs.