Back to dog stuff

We say a fond farewell to Thanksgiving for another year. We had lots of fun, ate way too much and shopped till we dropped. So now that our company has returned home and the turkey has become stock for a soup later this week we return to normal life.
Well normal for us, back to the dogs!

The Thanksgiving cluster in Springfield MA is the largest AKC agility trial in the country so it is truly an experience.

The exhibitors and their dogs are set up in row after row where we wait for our runs.
Scott and Beta relax and chat with our neighbor.
We hang out and chat with friends
There are lots of vendors so we do a bit of shopping.

and we have lots of spectacular runs with our dogs.

Thanksgiving is over

I hope you all enjoyed your holiday. We had a wonderful time with my sister dlyn and her husband Big Lar. I am always sad when they go home but I am ready to get back to "normal" life. In the next couple weeks we will be preparing for Christmas and our annual Open house but here a few highlights from Thanksgiving.

Jackaroo was especially happy to see his Uncle Larry. Jack is the founding member and president of the Uncle Larry fan club.


It's hard to get clear pictures of them because Jack tries give Uncle Larry many kisses.
Kindle is new to the fan club so she looked on from afar with her dad. Though as the days went on she became the newest inductee.

We cooked and baked. Here are our gorgeous pies

Dlyn is of a course a baker and cook extraordinaire but our mama didn't raise no bad cooks, so I do hold my own. Between the two of us we created a wonderful feast.

My mother-in-law sent us a really nice bouquet for our table. Thanks Mad!
And the table looked very nice! I would have taken more pictures but this was about the time the furnace started screaming and we had to shut it off and call our furnace guy. The furnace is only a couple years old so we were a bit dismayed by this turn of events but probably not so much as our furnace guy who left his steaming turkey and stuffing to come to our house to work! He did get it going but had to come back the next day and charge us big bucks to replace stuff.

So Dlyn and Big Lar are on their way home and we a rattling around getting used to the quiet of our house again. Some of us are just exhausted!

Dog Agility is done for 2008

We had a great time at our agility trial this last weekend. It was a 4 day show we entered just 3 days and got home last evening. The show was held at the Big E fairgrounds in Springfield MA in the large building that houses farm animals at the annual fair. For our show, they truck in tons of dirt for the rings and pack it down, which makes for excellent footing. Nice and level and cushy to run on for dogs and humans. The drawback is that by midday a haze of dirt and dust fills the building making it harder to breath and everything gets covered with it, I mean everything! We had to bathe all 5 dogs when we got home.
We still love that show site. Its huge and the show is too! We had really nice courses and great runs. Jackaroo and I managed to qualify once on Sunday. The rest of our runs were really close with just little mistakes that kept us from qualifying.
Here is our one Q for the weekend.

It was a wonderful run though I see lots of places for improvements. Isn't Jackaroo a speedy little guy. Hard to believe he will be 9 years old the end of January!

Scott and Beta had some wonderful runs too which I will post about later this week or possibly next. My sister Dlyn and her husband Big Lar are visiting for Thanksgiving so we will be busy eating, cooking, eating, playing cards, eating, sipping wine, eating, shopping and oh we might go out to eat one night too. Should be big fun. (Go visit Dlyn's log she is celebrating her one year anniversary of daily blogging! Congrats Dlyn!)

Check back for more on the show. This was also Kindle's first stay in a motel since she was 9 weeks old. She made the most of it!

Even though this was the last show for us this year we will be back at it the first weekend in January. In the meantime I will be working on those improvements!

PHOTO MEME

My sister over at dlyn got tagged for a photography meme yesterday and because I read it, I am tagged.

Here is what you do: Go to your 4th photo file, then to your 4th photo inside that file and then post it.

Here is mine. I so wanted to cheat because though I love dog agility trials this is not the most exciting part of a show, waiting for your run in your tent in less than nice weather, but oh well. You can just see Scott and our friend Clee hanging out between runs.

Ok so you are tagged, go do it!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Gotta love puppies!

Enjoy!

Thank you veterans and soldiers

I am late getting here today but I just want to say a heartfelt thank you to all our veterans and soldiers who have sacrificed so much to insure our freedom.

Please visit our own soldier my niece Lauren and thank her for her service in Iraq. We are praying daily she will be home safe in 2009.