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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! |
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This is Wesley Hutchens' puppy, Reba, off of our Nite Ch. Yadkin River Jim and Wesley's Nite Ch. Yadkin River Fly. |
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Zack McCall listening to "tales of coonhunting" during a visit to Yadkin River Kennels in March 2010 |
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Jimmy Meeks with "Tippy" during a visit in March 2010 |
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Michael Petit, Zack McCall, Greg McCall, Randy Hutchens, Pete, Jimmy Meeks and "Tippy" - March 2010 |
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Mike Petit and Greg McCall visiting with Pete at Walker Days 2010 |
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David Gilroy at Walker Days 2010 |
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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!) |
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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) |
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Chris Martin and Homer Hicks at Walker Days 2010 (they were shopping too!) |
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Wesley Hutchens and his fiance, Paige at Walker Days 2010 (they loaned us a camera too!) |
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Pete with Justin Adkins at Walker Days 2010 |
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Geoff, keeping with tradition - been there/done that. Just let me get my noon nap so I can go hunting when it gets dark! |
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Nite Ch. Yadkin River Jim (like father like son - Walker Days and the stud barn just are not that big of a deal!) |
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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). |
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Pete with Swanson Matney at Walker days 2010 |
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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! |
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Pete & Tina, goofing off and trying to forget how cold it is - Walker Days 2010. |
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Nite Ch. Yadkin River Jim - Yadkin River Top & Bottom. ;-) |
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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! |
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Geoff was glad he brought his Carhartt coat to Walker Days 2010. Friday was almost unbearable with the wind and the cold. |
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Pete with Johnny Clanton (Statesville, NC) at Walker Days 2010 |
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Pete with Dr. Richard Guill, another long-time coon-hunting friend at Walker Days 2010 |
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Max wearing his "Geoff" boggin so the folks at Walker Days would know who he belonged to. |
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Fifteen-month old Max at Walker Days 2010 with his Pa Barber learning to talk about those Yadkin River Hounds. |
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David, Jimmy and Pete at Walker Days 2010 |
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Ted Williams visiting us at Yadkin River Kennels in February 2010. Don't know how we've missed getting Ted on here before now! |
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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. |
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Long-time good friend, Jerry Wooten, from Lexington, NC at Walker Days 2010. |
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Nathan and Heather Pardue (Yadkin River Bruizer) from Elkin, NC stopped by to say hello in Salisbury (2010) |
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Greg McCall (Brevard,NC) and Michael Petit (Rosman, NC) stopped by to say hello at Walker Days 2010. |
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Terry Fisher from Brevard, NC at Walker Days 2010 |
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Stephen Brown and Randy Hutchens (owners of Nite Ch. Yadkin River Hardwoods Daisy) at Walker Days 2010. |
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Steve Taylor of East Bend, NC (Nite Ch. Yadkin River Lilly) at Walker Days 2010. |
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Pete's dog walker - from left to right - Jim, Bell, Geoff, Pearl and Biscuit (they think they are pulling him!) |
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Pete with Geoff, David Gilroy, Gary Weller and Gigi on a hunt in Maryland in 2007 |
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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. |
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David delivering a puppy out of Geoff and Kate to Jason Patrick |
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Jason Patrick and his puppy out of Geoff and Kate |
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Thanks to Randall Coleman and Jason Patrick for taking me hunting. |
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Paul Gilroy, David Gilroy, Ted Williams and Pete on a hunting trip in Maryland in 2006 |
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Jason McConnel, his son, his dad (Harley) and Harley's male pup out of Geoff in July 09. |
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Tina with Anna Delorme at the "knob" of Pilot Mountain during the Delormes' 2009 visit to Yadkin River Kennels |
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Jason McConnell and his friend, Kyle, Pete, Geoff and Steve Delorme in April 09 - getting ready to go hunting. |
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Steve Delorme, Jimmy Meeks, Pete, Johnny Clanton and Glen Caldwell - January 09. |
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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. |
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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!" |
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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. |
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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 |
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Kristen with Max at SETW Days 2009 |
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Pete and Max with Jim "Wildman" Meeks at SETW Days 2009 |
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Max, wearing his Geoff cap, gets to meet American Cooner girl, Amy Kovac-Thomas |
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Wade Barber receiving his "lost in the wilderness" supplies for future nights of coonhunting. |
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Pete and Tommy Cornatzer. |
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Gary Weller (Maryland) dropping off Kate to be bred to Geoff and Barry Lake (Pennsylvania) picking up a pup (May 09) |
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Jason McConnell and Kyle Chase talking about coonhunting. |
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Jonathan Cooper and Wesley Hutchens |
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Buster Britt and Kyle Chase |
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Randy Hutchens and Steve Taylor |
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Geoff taking his "Walker Days" nap (2009). |
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Trish, owned by Jason McConnell |
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David Smith, Gary Weller, Pete, Fournoy Rollins, Jimmy Meeks, Richard Proctor and Barry Lake at SETW Days 09. Missing: David Gilroy! |
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Kyle Chase, Toehead Smith and Sammy |
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Kyle Chase and Toehead Smith |
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Bill Hutchens and Wayne Nichols |
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Jimmy Meeks and Toehead Smith at SETW Days 2008. |
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Rodney Hubbard and Pearl River Hard Rock at SETW Days 2008 |
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Tommy Hutchins, Pete and Kyle Chase at SETW Days 2008 |
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Curtis Sparks, President of Stone Mountain Coon Club, at SETW Days 2008. Congratulations to Curtis for winning SETWA Merit Award in 2008. |
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The gang at SETW Days 2008 getting ready for cast draws on Saturday night (Stephen Brown, Jason Hutchens, Randy Hutchens, Pete and Flournoy Rollins |
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David Gilroy and Pete having their annual through the fence conference at SETW Days 2008 |
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Stephen Brown, waiting to be drawn out on the Saturday night hunt at SETW Days 2008 (Flournoy Rollins in the background) |
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Steve Taylor at SETW Days 2008 |
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Geoff hamming it up with our daughter, Kristen, at SETW Days 2008 |
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Kristen (our daughter) with Pete at SETW Days 2008. Kristen, where's your Geoff cap??!!! |
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Chase Cooper with Yadkin River Jim at SETW Days 2008 |
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Yadkin River Jim, one of Tina's favorites, getting a good luck hug before the Saturday night hunt at SETW Days 2008 |
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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!) |
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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. |
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David Gilroy was finally located talking to Sue & Gary Weller (Maryland) and Johnny Lyles (also from Maryland). |
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Yadkin River Jim with the "hound" look going on. |
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Pete's girls............Kristen is still waiting for a Geoff cap! |
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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) |
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Geoff doesn't seem to know what all the hoopla is about. Daytime is the time to sleep! |
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Pete with Amy Kovac-Thomas from American Cooner at the Grand American January 2008 |
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Pete and John Wick at Grand American 2008 (Pete with his autographed copy of Walk with Wick!) |
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Our friend, Wesley Hutchens, with his dog, Fly, after winning a First Place at a nite hunt in Dobson, NC |
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Yadkin River Mattie, owned by Justin King, on an early morning bear hunt near Washington, NC |
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Yadkin River Mattie treed on a bear. |
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Jimmy Meeks, Linville Sparks and Pete at Stone Mountain Coon Club on 2-9-08 |
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Larry Quesenberry and Pete, talking coonhunting, at Stone Mountain Coon Club on 2-9-08 |
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Stephen, do you want to sell that dog? |
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Pete with Earl Flippin at Stone Mountain Coon Club. Earl was inducted as a lifetime member of the SETWA at Walker Days in 2008. |
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Pete with the "small" pet grooming gift certificate he won at Stone Mountain Coon Club hunt on 2-9-08 |
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This is Yadkin River Curt, Jimmy Meek's current stud dog. |
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Pete with Paul Briggs at Walker Days in 2006. Paul passed away in January 2008. We will miss him a lot. |
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Paul Briggs with Pete at Walker Days in 2007. |
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Pete and David Gilroy in 2006 at the Yadkin River |
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2007 annual over the fence conference at Walker Days, Pete and David Gilroy |
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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). |
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Find the coons. How many? There's three. See if you can find them all. |
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Geoff and Pearl after a guided hunt by Randy Hutchens in Halifax County in January 2008. |
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Kristen scores again, big-eight in 2007 |
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Wesley Hutchens and bobcat taken in 2007 |
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David Gilroy, Pete and Ted Williams, during a 2006 visit at David's home in Maryland. |
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David Gilroy and Tom with Pete getting ready for a hunt in March 2008. |
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Stephen Brown, Pete, Chris Crotts, Justin King and Randy Hutchins, September 08 |
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Homer Hicks, Pete, Mike Vaughn (back), Alton Causey, Larry Walker, Wade Barber and Steve Taylor at the kennels in September 08. |
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Be sure to check out Homer Hicks for all of your hound supplies. |
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Paula does all of our embroidery for us, and does a terrific job. |
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Y'all come back now............. |
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