Hi, Jan,

   Thanks for writing back. It was Adeline of the addy "Tim
Jones" I talked to. Did you get her two emails I sent you?
She asked things that were over my head to answer...I'm glad
you and the others have already been in touch with her, so
maybe this isn't so important.
   I hope you didn't lose too much on your HD...we have a
situation like that, with all my 15 yo DD's writing and
poetry on it. Hopefully DH can salvage it. Anymore
computers are like cars...can't live with 'em, can't live
without 'em! LOL

Rini
>
> Before my computer crashed in early December I'd
> been in touch with Tim Jones in Wales about their dogs
> (maybe it was his wife, the address was TimJones, anyway).
> I still haven't got caught back up from a month without a
> computer though.
> I had some more pictures of Welsh Sheep dogs but
> they were lost with the HD crash.
> Mary Peaslee, Amy Dorsch, and Linda Rorem had been
> in on those conversations. Maybe they continued while I
> was offline.
>
> Tom and Nancy Maxwell made a great video of welsh
> dogs in action when they were over there in the 90s. The
> WSD in the video reminded me of ES in the way they worked
> although they were more barky while working. They seem to
> be leggier than most ES, too. They work upright like ES
> but they work speedy like a BC whereas ES seem more the
> "slow and steady" type (not that ES can't turn on the
> speed when needed, but the welsh dogs seemed busier than
> typical ES). Physically there are great similarities in
> the two breeds and I don't doubt they share some common
> heritage back aways but the two breeds are distinct now.
>
> jan