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MAKE NEW FRIENDS, BUT KEEP THE OLD; ONE IS SILVER AND THE OTHER GOLD! 

The Scrapbook page includes pictures we want to share, and these are the pictures, that in some cases just don't fit on the other pages.  We have to include some deer-hunting here as well as other great photos that we receive by email.  We hope you'll also enjoy our photos taken at the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Southeastern Treeing Walker Days in Salisbury, NC!

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Pete with Jim, Pearl, Angel, Geoff and Biscuit out for an evening run on July 4, 2010 - first evening not too hot for a run around the farm!

This is Wesley Hutchens' puppy, Reba, off of our Nite Ch. Yadkin River Jim and Wesley's Nite Ch. Yadkin River Fly.

Zack McCall listening to "tales of coonhunting" during a visit to Yadkin River Kennels in March 2010

Jimmy Meeks with "Tippy" during a visit in March 2010

Michael Petit, Zack McCall, Greg McCall, Randy Hutchens, Pete, Jimmy Meeks and "Tippy" - March 2010

Mike Petit and Greg McCall visiting with Pete at Walker Days 2010

David Gilroy at Walker Days 2010

Travis Blevins from Virginia stopped by to see Pete at Walker Days 2010 (Wes, Tina videoed instead of snapping a photo - will get a photo next time!)

A little shopping at Walker Days before we called it a weekend - it finally warmed up when it was time to go home (Pete, Steve Taylor, David Gilroy)

Chris Martin and Homer Hicks at Walker Days 2010 (they were shopping too!)

Wesley Hutchens and his fiance, Paige at Walker Days 2010 (they loaned us a camera too!)

Pete with Justin Adkins at Walker Days 2010

Geoff, keeping with tradition - been there/done that. Just let me get my noon nap so I can go hunting when it gets dark!

Nite Ch. Yadkin River Jim (like father like son - Walker Days and the stud barn just are not that big of a deal!)

Are we doing a Purina promo, or what?!? Seriously, we've fed & recommended Purina since 1976, but we're just having fun here with Amy (Cooner).

Pete with Swanson Matney at Walker days 2010

Justin & Jennifer Adkins -Walker Days 2010-spent most of Friday with us & loaned us a camera (ours died). Thanks for hanging out & braving the cold!

Pete & Tina, goofing off and trying to forget how cold it is - Walker Days 2010.

Nite Ch. Yadkin River Jim - Yadkin River Top & Bottom. ;-)

Do you know how hard it is to put up a banner and a tarp in wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour?! If it wasn't straight, it was because of the wind!

Geoff was glad he brought his Carhartt coat to Walker Days 2010. Friday was almost unbearable with the wind and the cold.

Pete with Johnny Clanton (Statesville, NC) at Walker Days 2010

Pete with Dr. Richard Guill, another long-time coon-hunting friend at Walker Days 2010

Max wearing his "Geoff" boggin so the folks at Walker Days would know who he belonged to.

Fifteen-month old Max at Walker Days 2010 with his Pa Barber learning to talk about those Yadkin River Hounds.

David, Jimmy and Pete at Walker Days 2010

Ted Williams visiting us at Yadkin River Kennels in February 2010. Don't know how we've missed getting Ted on here before now!

Long over-due picture of Chad Vestal. Chad has been visiting with us at our home since he was a little boy and stopped by at Walker Days 2010.

Long-time good friend, Jerry Wooten, from Lexington, NC at Walker Days 2010.

Nathan and Heather Pardue (Yadkin River Bruizer) from Elkin, NC stopped by to say hello in Salisbury (2010)

Greg McCall (Brevard,NC) and Michael Petit (Rosman, NC) stopped by to say hello at Walker Days 2010.

Terry Fisher from Brevard, NC at Walker Days 2010

Stephen Brown and Randy Hutchens (owners of Nite Ch. Yadkin River Hardwoods Daisy) at Walker Days 2010.

Steve Taylor of East Bend, NC (Nite Ch. Yadkin River Lilly) at Walker Days 2010.

Pete's dog walker - from left to right - Jim, Bell, Geoff, Pearl and Biscuit (they think they are pulling him!)

Pete with Geoff, David Gilroy, Gary Weller and Gigi on a hunt in Maryland in 2007

Another old friend, and another good hound - Swanson Matney and Matney's Southern Pride (see Geoff's pedigree) - I've known Swanson for 30 years.

David delivering a puppy out of Geoff and Kate to Jason Patrick

Jason Patrick and his puppy out of Geoff and Kate

Jim and his snake

Thanks to Randall Coleman and Jason Patrick for taking me hunting.

Dakota Coleman

Paul Gilroy, David Gilroy, Ted Williams and Pete on a hunting trip in Maryland in 2006

Jason McConnel, his son, his dad (Harley) and Harley's male pup out of Geoff in July 09.

Dog Whisperer

Tina with Anna Delorme at the "knob" of Pilot Mountain during the Delormes' 2009 visit to Yadkin River Kennels

Jason McConnell and his friend, Kyle, Pete, Geoff and Steve Delorme in April 09 - getting ready to go hunting.

Steve Delorme, Jimmy Meeks, Pete, Johnny Clanton and Glen Caldwell - January 09.

Jim & Barbara Meeks picking up his pup out of Lacy and Curt (Jim's stud dog) and a pup out of Geoff and Bell, summer 2009.

Pete with 5-year old Dylan Kromer of Virginia picking up his pup (Yadkin River Jim & Yadkin River Fly) in October 09. Dylan named this pup "Pete!"

Pete with Alex Grady of Thomasville, NC, when Alex came to pick up his pup out of Geoff and Steve Delorme's female, Gypsy in December 09.

Pete with Steve Delorme & Dale Brooks of Forest, Ontario when they came to NC November 09 to pick up Gypsy & Steve's 2 pups out of Geoff & Gypsy cross

Kristen with Max at SETW Days 2009

Pete and Max with Jim "Wildman" Meeks at SETW Days 2009

Max, wearing his Geoff cap, gets to meet American Cooner girl, Amy Kovac-Thomas

Wade Barber receiving his "lost in the wilderness" supplies for future nights of coonhunting.

Pete and Tommy Cornatzer.

Gary Weller (Maryland) dropping off Kate to be bred to Geoff and Barry Lake (Pennsylvania) picking up a pup (May 09)

Pete with Eric Parrish.

Jason McConnell and Kyle Chase talking about coonhunting.

Jonathan Cooper and Wesley Hutchens

Buster Britt and Kyle Chase

Randy Hutchens and Steve Taylor

Geoff taking his "Walker Days" nap (2009).

Trish, owned by Jason McConnell

David Smith, Gary Weller, Pete, Fournoy Rollins, Jimmy Meeks, Richard Proctor and Barry Lake at SETW Days 09. Missing: David Gilroy!

Proud grandma

Pete and Jason Hutchens

Kyle Chase and Pete

Kyle Chase, Toehead Smith and Sammy

Kyle Chase and Toehead Smith

Bill Hutchens and Wayne Nichols

Pete and Gary Weller

Rodney Hubbard

Jimmy Meeks and Toehead Smith at SETW Days 2008.

Rodney Hubbard and Pearl River Hard Rock at SETW Days 2008

Tommy Hutchins, Pete and Kyle Chase at SETW Days 2008

Curtis Sparks, President of Stone Mountain Coon Club, at SETW Days 2008. Congratulations to Curtis for winning SETWA Merit Award in 2008.

The gang at SETW Days 2008 getting ready for cast draws on Saturday night (Stephen Brown, Jason Hutchens, Randy Hutchens, Pete and Flournoy Rollins

David Gilroy and Pete having their annual through the fence conference at SETW Days 2008

Stephen Brown, waiting to be drawn out on the Saturday night hunt at SETW Days 2008 (Flournoy Rollins in the background)

Steve Taylor at SETW Days 2008

Geoff hamming it up with our daughter, Kristen, at SETW Days 2008

Kristen (our daughter) with Pete at SETW Days 2008. Kristen, where's your Geoff cap??!!!

Chase Cooper with Yadkin River Jim at SETW Days 2008

Yadkin River Jim, one of Tina's favorites, getting a good luck hug before the Saturday night hunt at SETW Days 2008

Katie Cottle, one of our favorite vendors at SETW Days 2008 (she has great ceramics of coondogs and raccoons for those of us who are collectors!)

Amy Kovac-Thomas & Tammy White from American Cooner at SETW Days '08. See you next year! That's Amy's daughter, Rose, in the lower left corner.

David Gilroy was finally located talking to Sue & Gary Weller (Maryland) and Johnny Lyles (also from Maryland).

Yadkin River Jim with the "hound" look going on.

Pete's girls............Kristen is still waiting for a Geoff cap!

Steve Taylor, David Gilroy, Pete & Rodney Hubbard with the Allen Shoe Memorial Hunt plaques won by Nite Ch. YR Lillie and Jinx (see the puppies page)

Pete and Rodney Hubbard

Geoff doesn't seem to know what all the hoopla is about. Daytime is the time to sleep!

Pete with Amy Kovac-Thomas from American Cooner at the Grand American January 2008

Pete and John Wick at Grand American 2008 (Pete with his autographed copy of Walk with Wick!)

Our friend, Wesley Hutchens, with his dog, Fly, after winning a First Place at a nite hunt in Dobson, NC

Yadkin River Mattie, owned by Justin King, on an early morning bear hunt near Washington, NC

Yadkin River Mattie treed on a bear.

Jimmy Meeks, Linville Sparks and Pete at Stone Mountain Coon Club on 2-9-08

Larry Quesenberry and Pete, talking coonhunting, at Stone Mountain Coon Club on 2-9-08

Stephen, do you want to sell that dog?

Pete with Earl Flippin at Stone Mountain Coon Club. Earl was inducted as a lifetime member of the SETWA at Walker Days in 2008.

Pete with the "small" pet grooming gift certificate he won at Stone Mountain Coon Club hunt on 2-9-08

This is Yadkin River Curt, Jimmy Meek's current stud dog.

Pete with Paul Briggs at Walker Days in 2006. Paul passed away in January 2008. We will miss him a lot.

Paul Briggs with Pete at Walker Days in 2007.

Pete and David Gilroy in 2006 at the Yadkin River

2007 annual over the fence conference at Walker Days, Pete and David Gilroy

Flournoy Rollins of Talahassee, Florida, with Nite Ch. Yadkin River Jeff II, Pete and Ch. Nite Ch.Yadkin River Lacy (Jeff II is Lacy's sire).

Find the coons. How many? There's three. See if you can find them all.

Geoff and Pearl after a guided hunt by Randy Hutchens in Halifax County in January 2008.

Yadkin River Lillie

Find the orange

Kristen scores again, big-eight in 2007

One proud daddy

Wesley Hutchens and bobcat taken in 2007

David Gilroy, Pete and Ted Williams, during a 2006 visit at David's home in Maryland.

David Gilroy and Tom with Pete getting ready for a hunt in March 2008.

Stephen Brown, Pete, Chris Crotts, Justin King and Randy Hutchins, September 08

Homer Hicks, Pete, Mike Vaughn (back), Alton Causey, Larry Walker, Wade Barber and Steve Taylor at the kennels in September 08.

Tom Gilroy

Be sure to check out Homer Hicks for all of your hound supplies.

Paula does all of our embroidery for us, and does a terrific job.

Y'all come back now.............

 

 

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