Sunday, January 23, 2011


Hurray it won't be long before a haul is headed our way. We only ordered one extra this time. I ordered a foster dog. A-Come-Helen she is a black 5 year old girl. Something about her face reminded me of my girl Run. The clincher for me was that she has flea allergies and I love the idea of bringing her north where fleas are few and far in between. I can't wait to see her and hope I actually get to foster her a little while before she is snatched up.


The winter here has already seemed very long. We have had lots of everything...rain, cold, ice and snow. I have been busy the last week or so with craft projects. Its been years since I just set down and enjoyed doing something with my hands with no time line hanging over me. Of course there are things I need to be doing which I am neglecting but for now it is enough to putter. One of my goals this upcoming year is to show Run in at least rally obedience. She is so smart and likes to puzzle solve which makes training her a lot of fun. But for tonight I will have to be content with listening to the wind blowing around the corners of the house and dreaming of meeting Helen and training Run.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Seems like a million miles have been covered since I last made an entry in my blog. But alas the new year is upon us and time to get caught up. Updates from the dog family....
Yahtzee the last pup from the summer rescue litter was adopted by my dog-nanny. She admitted that from the moment she first saw Yahtzee in a online video she was smitten with her. Its been a perfect match for both. The rest of my dog family has been fairly well. Dusk is over all doing well with bouts of feeling rough that last about a week followed by several weeks of feeling well. It was nearly a year ago that we first discovered the mass in his chest. At that time we really though he was a short-timer but he has proved us wrong. My puppy Tilly is now a year old, she is every bit of a princess. Darrin seems to adore her and I am SHOCKED that he snuggles with her and even lets her sleep on the bed...between us. But Tilly is a very sweet princess not the spoiled kind. Brink earned an obedience title in Sept. Showing Brink was in a word...challenging. He got to worrying in the ring and couldn't even think, but we managed to hold it together and earned his Companion Dog title. Pixie earned a Rally Advanced title. After much consideration I decided to go ahead and have her spayed. I am not really that interested in conformation and decided I would just rather be able to show her in the upper levels of obedience without the added complication of heat cycles. I would have enjoyed letting her raise a litter of pups but that alone is not reason to do it. Ivy my old lady Aussie is still as prim and quirky as ever....maybe a little more so but at 14 she can pretty much do whatever she likes. This fall through a horse trading deal made by a friend I ended up with another Aussie pup. A red tri boy which I named Jose. He fit right into the pack like he had always been here so what was meant to be temporary became permanent.

On the sight hound scene my 6 hounds are all well. Jonah just turned 10 years. I started Katy in Open obedience to hopefully show her this upcoming year. But Katy has other plans and they do not include dumbbell work. She thinks retrieving is completely beneath her. So we will work on higher levels of rally instead. The greyhound girls are all as lovely and easy to live with as ever. One thing about greyhounds they are such companionable dogs they are easy to take for granted then one day you catch a glimpse of them curled up sleeping or trotting in that elastic trot down the hall and it takes your breath away. They are not only easy to live with they are living art. So beautiful!!

Into 2011 with all the promise of the best year ever!!