Cubbing - Sept 15th, 2010

Day Nineteen of Cubbing

Meet: Red Pump

Temps: in the high 60's

Couples: 19 couples JCP Kennels (all puppies)

Staff:
MFH- James Paxson, Whips - Hoppy Sterns, Priscilla Godsoe, Dott Cochran, Field Masters - Gary Kennedy, and Duncan Patterson, Hound Trucks - Karen Kennedy

Start: 8:00am
End: 10:09am

Nice morning!
Starting to be a bit cooler in the mornings with fall creeping in on us. Its shocking every morning we get out how different the woods and fields begin to look with this new season.

More and more color in the trees, more of the corn is getting picked or nearly ready, soy beans are turning a yellowish brown, and there is a very distinct smell of fall in the air.

To add to the beauty... we let out the hounds! You really can't ask for a better way to start the day!

This morning started with a nice run into the woods by Hotel California, and ended up wrapping into the corn fields toward the stone pile, and then back to the single coop on the Hogs Run side where the fox gave us the slip into a log type hole.

From here we crossed Red Pump by the bridge abutment, and made our way toward Holy View, out into the big corn field, down along the river at the Mouse House and of course.. Gary, Dot, and I all at different times, saw the fox... but he (the fox) decided best to cross the road...not such a great time to cross the road with the deer hunting season getting ready to start over there. Maybe Mr. Fox got bored running through the corn, I don't know?

So instead of crossing the road MFH Jimmy took the hounds to the brier patch by Holy View, out through the corn and then dropped down to the hollow and back toward the bank at Octorara Farms (fuzzy cow farm).

All in all we had a good morning. Hounds stayed together nicely, and the puppies still think they know exactly whats going!

Next meet: FRIDAY at FOX MILL at 5:00 P.M.
SATURDAY at DOWN PATRICK at 10:00 A.M

***DONT FORGET!!! KIMBERTON HOUND SHOW this Sunday, September 19th. Our River Hills Foxhounds will be there and showing! So please come join us, lend and hand or just watch and hang out with the gang!