Northern California Angora Guild

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Snoopy's Cafe And Bookstore









Snoopy and Woodstock resting at the corner of the building.







Woodstock guards the entrance of Warm Puppy Cafe.









Snoopy wants to be your chef.











Charlie Brown stands inside the bookstore.







An overview photo of the bookstore from the pamphlet.





Friday, June 19, 2009

Snoopy's Home Ice Arena



Snoopy's Home Ice Arena was built by Charles Schulz and his family as a gift to the community. It opened in 1969 for events and for public skating.







Outside the Snoopy's Home Ice Arena, Charlie Brown stands guard in full hockey attire.








A giant happy Snoopy is the first thing one sees when entering the arena.








Betty and Alice cannot resist having a picture taken with the happy Snoopy.








Beautiful stained glass skating Snoopy.







More stained glass skating Snoopy.







Even the truck has the skating Snoopy image.








Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Courtyard Of Snoopy Museum



Snoopy and Woodstock are chit chatting and sharing a cookie.




Betty asks Snoopy for a share of his cookie.








Linus looks on with his security blanket in tow.









Alice kisses Woodstock.






Charlie Brown and his little construction crew.






Whose big hat is it?







Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Entering Snoopy Museum


The museum is located at 2301 Hardies Lane in Santa Rosa. It is nested in a residential area that is not obvious to tourists. Next to the museum in separate buildings are a cafe, an ice skating rink and a gift shop. Here is part one of Betty's trip to the museum.






The full name is Charles M Schultz Museum and Research Center but it's more commonly known as the Snoopy Museum.





Charlie Brown stands at the entrance in front of the museum; he is a lot bigger than Betty.







The entrance foyer of the museum, one of the few places where photo-taking is allowed.





This is one of the few paintings that may be photographed.








Another few pictures for photo-taking.








Morphing Snoopy on this huge wood sculpture and ceramic tile mural.







Resting area where Charlie Brown is trying for his never-succeeded football kick.





The small gift shop in the museum lobby.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Found On The Net: Squirrel Mom vs Big Bad Dog









What are you doing with my baby?









You bad dog, get away from my baby!







Run baby run, mom is here to battle this big bad dog.












What happened? Did I just lose a fight with an itty bitty squirrel?








Monday, June 15, 2009

An English Angora Best In Show In Canada






Two judges, Stacy from OH and Don from MI, went to Toronto area to judge double all breed shows. An English Angora owned by Ginette won double Best In Show.


Ginette is a new breeder; she shed happy tears as this was the first time that she won Best In Show.


Thanks to judge Stacy for sharing this photo.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Go Green!









Green finger nails and green toenails, who could that be? Why all green?








Here is the answer, it's Rita, the best show secretary in the world.




We don't see Rita relaxing at the show table much these days; in Reno, she enjoys herself as an exhibitor. Look at her nails!







Rita and judge Nancy and her Best Of Breed white Satin.





Rita and judge Nancy discusses the results after the Satin are done.









It's very seldom that we see Rita not working hard at the show secretary's table. She is the best show secretary in the world. Rita does the secretary work for most of the shows in No. CA and she also did the secretary’s job for the ARBA convention in San Diego in 2001 and in Louisville in 2008. She will be doing the same job this year in San Diego and also in 2010 for the ARBA convention in Minneapolis.

For the month of June, she is working on the San Joaquin Fair. Since the scene of the fair is "Go Green", Rita goes green with her fingernails and toenails.