Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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!


Thursday, November 13, 2008

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!!!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Wordless Wednesday

Gotta love puppies!

Enjoy!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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.

Friday, October 31, 2008

My little girls

I took these pictures back on Sept. 24th. I kept meaning to get them out here but got busy so even though they are a bit old (as puppies go anyway) I really love them.

Aren't they just the cutest?

They pose nicely.
Uh oh, I'm losing Beta.







I think she hears something....


Um, I think they both hear it.



I think the photo session is over.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Wordless Wednesday? I give up

I am just not a wordless kinda gal.

But I will only do a quick post.

A couple weekends ago I went to my church's annual women's retreat. Here a few pictures of the fun.
The Lake

My bible study buddies

There's always that one who won't let you take her picture. Geez!

The Group

No husbands no kids, dogs, cooking, cleaning, just fun and learning. We got through it somehow. Can't wait til next year.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Kindle does laundry

I heard a strange noise earlier today and went to investigate. This is what I found.

Kindle's impression of laundry