Thursday, December 31, 2009

I cannot tell a lie


I am not sorry to say good bye to this year (actually started in the fall of 2008)






One CPE agility trial for ONE day and one day of a judges clinic and that was IT if memory serves me right for agility


Losses like I have never seen - human, cat, dog, rabbit - everytime I turned around someone I loved or cared about was getting slammed in some way ...




I'll do some goal setting soon - but all I can say right now is GOODBYE 2009!!





Sunday, December 20, 2009

Brody ...


is aging ...

I can feel his backbone

and after having a year + off agility I worry about bringing him back - I guess all I can do is start slow conditioning and cross my fingers he's fitter and younger feeling than he's looking right now ...


I hate this part of living with, and loving, other species ....

Saturday, December 05, 2009

wow - long time no see ...

My fall is always busy but this has been insane

I'm taking a course every other weekend in Kingston ..Saturdays and Sundays and while it's good it's made for a very long three months

we lost Hank, 3 cats (one 12 year old who was born here- 2 fosters - one after about a year with us the other after 2 weeks here) and 2 rabbits. They all died in a very short period of time - and while each death was awful and tragic non was preventable or predicatable.. it was a rough couple of weeks ...

I ended up with more rabbits here - just don't ask ... but I think I'd better get bunny agility going asap ...

we also have a new farm dog - Sampson. He's a young golden retriever .. and while he has some bagage he's a dear fellow and working very hard to learn basic manners ...I feel terrible that life has been so busy lately he's pretty much had to swim with the big dawgs ...
Tom is taking him to class and they are doing great - Sally and I go along for fun and the trainer hasn't figured out yet that Sally already knows everything she is teaching plus a whole lot more - too funny!
My father in law fell last week - he's still in the hospital and Tom and I live closest of all the kids so we are spending a lot of time with him .. never fun ..if it takes awhile to get another update I hope you'll understand why.