Dog and Pony performance

There were twelve classes in the Dog and Pony Show's Ridiculous Performance division. I showed in ten of them, starting with Book or Movie Scene. This was low-effort but funny. It was also the only entry class so first place!

On to It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time. I had three entries in this class. My first was Jennibray's boozey jumping set-up. I've shown this before, but photo shows not live. This time I added Big Dog and subtracted a saddle (I couldn't find it!).

Another blue ribbon!

My second entry featured model a disarticulated doll, model Olive and a bike.

Fourth place!

My third entry, which consisted Jolly Roger, a child rider doll and Allie Davidson's bridge diorama - was mostly there to set the stage for later happenings.

My records are sketchy, but I think this placed third.

Donkey Hotee was next. I'd prepared three entries: MN Bonnie, Jose and Jose's Dog in taco costumes,

Jackpot...

and a packing set-up with Pecans.

However, as I was unpacking my models, I realized I'd brought a fourth donkey. I asked Alexey what I could do to squeeze Goodnight Moon into the class. 

"Draw a picture of a windmill," he said. "He can be dreaming of that."

I didn't have the time or bandwidth for drawing, but Candy said she would. Here is the delightful result.

Alexey's band of miscreants won the class. Goodnight Moon was second, Bonnie was third and Jackpot was fourth.  

In all the excitement, I completely forgot to put Pecans on the show table. Sometimes it's like that.

I had the only entry in the fourth class, Meme Me. This is the first time I've ever put model Sage and model Olive next to each other. It made me cry, but not in a bad way.

Moving on! Class five, Dog and Pony Show, required every entry to include at least one dog and one equine. Fabian's winning entry went above and beyond with no less than five dogs.

Jolly Roger and Meeka placed second...

and Winslow and Big Dog were third.

The next class, Puppy Performance, only neccesitated dogs. Accordingly, all three of my entries were completely horse-free. This is Big Dog with her chihuahua friends,

Hollywood Lassie...

and Roz.

My big diorama made its second appearance in Where's Timmy?

Karin walked by as I was setting up. I asked her if she remembered how this seemed like a good idea at the time.

We both laughed and said simultaneously, "It wasn't."

Search and Rescue guy was still wearing his blind man glasses from the Puppy Performance class. It's a good thing Winslow and Big Dog were there to do the heavy lifting!

First place.

Fantasy Performance: Real Equines Doing Fantasy Things was next.

I had a unicorn horse and dog set-up planned for Winslow and Big Dog. Unfortunately in all the chaos - this show was moving so quickly - I couldn't find the bridle. I ended up sticky waxing an extra horn to Winslow's head. Whatever works, I guess.

Of course, almost immediately after the class was pinned, I looked down and the bridle was right there. Sometimes it's like that!

There were no entries for Fantasy Performance: Fantasy Equines Doing Real Things or Fantasy Performance: Fantasy Equines Doing Fantasy Things so we moved on to Extremely Silly. I set up a standard-for-me golf cart entry with Sage running alongside, Jose on the roof, all the dead and dismembered members of the Braymere crew in a pool floatie and all the miniatures I could reasonably and not so reasonably include. It placed third behind Alexey's exotic tea party and Colleen's puppet show.

The last class of the division was Halloween. Big Dog, Capy Halloween and Everything Bagel won this one.

Winslow and the three year hot dog costume were right behind them in second.

Time for callbacks! 

I had a lot of horses - and other animals! - on the table.

One head, too.

Karin making her decision.

Top honors go to Jennibray!

Yay and thank you! I had so much fun showing Ridiculous Performance. Can we please make the Dog and Pony Show an annual tradition?