Giving Thanks!

What a beautiful Thanksgiving Day!  The weather is glorious and the dogs are loving it.

Patsy and her fan club (Abby and Oliver), visiting puppy.

More play, Bubbles hunting in the background.

Our beautiful Thanksgiving plates and table setting.  Nothing like turkey day!

Finally our table is set just waiting on the turkey and all the food to be ready.  Giving our thanks for not only the wonderful day, but all of the things we have been blessed with this year.  The dogs are healthy, Beli is here with me still:-)), Sheep have been productive this year and the humans health has been good.  Thank you  for everything and may everyone be blessed this year.

TDI Olivia

I got news from Peggy, O'baby's mommy, that she passed her TDI test with flying colors. She was impressive to the testers with her work through all the distraction. Peggy has done a fabulous job with our miracle Olivia! I'm so proud, this is the 3rd Raglan puppy working towards a career in therapy work. O'baby is the puppy I almost lost to a very rare affliction almost exactly 4yrs ago this week. She had a lobe of her liver torse, making her extremely septic. The "what if's" are almost too much to bear! If I had not worked that Friday, if I had not chosen to do an exploratory, if I had decided to put her down when she was seizuring uncontrolably, if the vet hadn't taken one more look further into her abdomen... She was meant to be THIS! And she was meant to be WITH Peggy. I love the O'baby for all of this but I love that she was meant to be with Peggy:-)) Thank you Peggy and Olivia, you go girls!!!

Hanging out

Got to hang out in the big field with the dogs for a bit today. Dogs had a blast, running and playing. Finally was able to get some pics and post them.

Abby and Patsy playing. Abby had a good workout and was feeling pretty good about herself; she even decided to do the scoot! What fun those two have together.


Sally got busted eating snacks, here she is moping back to me.

Oliver stalking Patsy:-))

Beli even found a stick. He has blown almost all of his coat and is quite naked at the moment.

Cute little Bubbles, always wants some attention.

Too long...

Well, this is the longest I've been between posts since I started this blog almost 2 yrs ago! Life has gotten away from me. I'm working more than ever it feels like, though thankfully lessons are part of that. Travel and busy weekends for the next 6wks are surely going to keep posts at a minimum. I've been pretty depressed about Rosy as well. All looked and was to my knowledge normal in her pregnancy UNTIL 4-5 wks and then POOF! No puppies anymore, I'm not sure what happened but it is what it is...
Thankfully I do have things to look forward to... we have trials this weekend and 2 wks from now. Judging in between, which means a change of scenery from home but also a weekend with no training too. We will be watching the Eukanuba since its close to home this year and having Jill visit as well. So we have a busy Fall to take our minds off things that haven't gone as planned.

Farm work day

It has been a great morning to work outside after our rainy last three days. I got limbs trimmed in the training area out back. Oak limbs got hauled to the goats who just adore cleaning tree limbs and the palm fronds that were knocked down in the storm as well as those I pruned got hauled to the burn pile. The dogs hung out with me while I worked, they had a great time!

Sitting area in the herding field, still shady but now you can walk under it without getting your head removed!


Our new patio! We got a new grill over the weekend and a fire pit. The pavers were laid a couple of weeks ago, its amazing how much work it takes to get a property just the way you want it!

Palm tree all trimmed up. Now you can actually get the sheep out of the roundpen without getting your head taken off by the limbs or the sheep drawing the dog in:-))

The Big news last week... Rosy is pregnant, she is just starting to show now 4 wks along. Only a month to go now!

Our eggplant this Fall has just gone crazy, great eggplant and isn't getting much up keep either!

Rest of the veggie garden is getting planted for Winter/Fall too. Collards, Carrots, Herbs... I better get some of my Lemon Grass before it gets killed by frost though.

Our visitor for the week is Rufus (f.k.a. Crush!). He is here until the end of the week, for a visit. He is enjoying all the other dogs and even has gotten used to playing with Patsy the crazy Aussie:-))

Pretty boy that he is.

Bubbles trying to stop herself from going after the gopher turtle. It is a hard job!

And her favorite pose! She is a natural just like her daddy:-))

Nice to get some work done today, I'll have dogs to be washed tomorrow. Trial this weekend to work, and my birthday too. This will be a good week!

Ahhhh...

I feel much better having had the time to take pics of the dogs today! Lots going on since I got home from the ASCA Nationals, most bad but there is always some good amongst the bad:-)) First though the Nationals were fun to watch; lots of dogs and stuff going on the whole time. Quite a bit of rain so no pics, my jacket pockets were full!


Rosy update... still not sure though some positive prego signs, she's not talking. Only a couple more weeks til we can be sure or not.


Sally my co-pilot, dirty from an early walk roll in the dirt:-))

This is the second go at a roll, everyone was happy to be on a walk even though it was really hot!

Patsy Loves her sticks, almost as she loves the Cardis...

As evidenced by the Cardis all on top of her in the pileup!

My sentry girls, keeping the goats at bay.

Bubbles back for only a split second between squirrel hunts (1 down, thousands to go!)

My Mr Oli, always doing something goofy for attention!

Finally the foster puppies. They are here for a week or so to get better "new home" manners. They are learning to play with people and other dogs, sleep in crates, leash walking... Big stuff for babies to learn. They will resume the home search next week.

The goats, always in to stuff they shouldn't be... They have to come poking around while I'm walking the dogs, drives the dogs crazy! Damn goats!!!!:-))

More travel and some catch up

Well I'm looking forward to heading out tomorrow morning for West Bend, WI. I am attending the ASCA Nationals with my friend Debby; although I was supposed to drive with her I had to shorten my trip. I'll be there for 5 days to watch the Finals and the Pre-trial classes. I am looking forward to watching and meeting new folks:-))
Also Rosy is bred so we wait 4 wks until we can hope for signs to show up. All fingers and toes crossed; tried to talk the dogs into it too but they refused. Another load of sheep is ready for market since the grass is so poor here this year... More baby chicks hatched yesterday though the hens are fighting over them so I don't know about that!:-/
Bubbles is fitting in just fine with everyone. She and Evy were cut from the same cloth, like peas in a pod! All the girls are getting along pretty well considering the hormones that have been flying around here.
Hopefully I'll be able to take some pics on the trip and post here or there.