I feel as though I've mostly been drifting this past year. And I've pretty much allowed that - it was comfortable to drift, to allow others to make decisions for me, to take care of friends who needed it and to allow them to take care of me. But it's starting to be time to recreate my own life. David was so much my anchor, that I've really not ( Read more... )

that I started grief therapy yesterday and the floodgates have opened and I'm all weepy alla time and it sucks and I hate it? But better now than in September.

(It's been more than a month, but I still want to get some of this down ( Read more... )

I really want to record the happenings of the last month here, but I'm not sure I have the gumption to do it. *sigh* We'll see how far I get ( Read more... )

DWH died in his sleep yesterday afternoon while I was off visiting puppies in Greenfield, MA.

Our first weekend out since October, Cash and I had a good weekend. One Q and one NQ yesterday, same today, but the jumpers with weaves run today was simply glorious. We were totally in sync and moving about as fast as it is possible for me to move. Cash was listening for me, but locking on to the next obstacle and moving out for it. I told a ( Read more... )

When Harry was 24 months old, I had his hips xrayed for the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals. The vet tech wanted to know why I would have a breeding test done on a neutered male and I said that my breeder wanted to know what she was producing. I also said that I wanted to do agility with this dog and that he wasn't going to tell me if something ( Read more... )

About four weeks ago, Harry started acting weird at obedience class - it was like he was tiring very easily, but he still wanted to work, so we worked ( Read more... )

in a way that I don't think I could even begin to imitate. Go you.

Hi all. I want to thank those of you who expressed sympathy for my situation with Harry having his leg amputated and let you know how well he's doing. Wednesday, I took Harry with me to the obedience class that Cash has been going to (which used to be Harry's class). I've been trying to get him out of the house as much as possible and figured he ( Read more... )