For as slowly as September crept by, October and November have zoomed by!  We had the three weekends that consisted of a clinic, and two all weekend sheep dog trials.  Even though it wasn't a full weekend, we did have a one day arena trail the very next weekend!



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This was the last of our three sheep dog weekends in a row.  For this trial I had to travel to the east side of Idaho, to Hailey.  Hailey is north of Twin Falls, so I had to go down and hit I84, then back north.  My internal compass is still way off!  When I'd check the direction to the Yukon's, I was often off!  Better not get lost!

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The first weekend of dogs and sheep was a Kathy Knox clinic.  It started with Heather, Navarre and Asher arriving on Friday.  We went out and saw the ranch and played with sheep.  Asher wasn't quite sure what to do with the sheep.  Rooster and Beckit had a good time.  We then cruised up Hell's Canyon and enjoyed the views.   I had my 3rd graders do ( Read more... )

Hey! We won something!  Ha!  Last weekend at the arena trail, Rooster and I got our act together and actually won.  This is our first herding win.  Although it's not out in the big field, this arena trial isn't easy.  The sheep want to escape to the exhaust, so you have to be very precise and we were.  Yahoo!  We did the key hole/through the ( Read more... )

I took Beckit to a herding puppy clinic. It was great fun with people I know and meeting some new ones.  7 month old puppies was the theme although there were some over a year.  I don't think there was any puppies under 6 months.  From what I saw there was only one who wasn't at all interested in working.  That was a Border/Kelpie that belonged to ( Read more... )

Labor Day weekend was our traditional weekend to go see my parents and start gathering firewood for the winter.  I left Friday morning with Maddy, William, Nat and Biff and got there around noon.  I took the horse trailer this time around and we got it loaded that afternoon.  Maddy and William are a great help!  Wow!  My mom and dad helped out too ( Read more... )

Back to school with kids yesterday!  Where did the summer go!  It's still to warm and I'm so looking forward to fall and the cooler temperatures!  So done being hot!  This afternoon it was 80 degrees in my classroom.  Yuck!



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Woo wee it's been HOT!  Yesterday it was 103 degrees.  Yikes!  Someone turn the heat down!  To beat the heat I took the dogs down to the Weiser River, which is about 3-4 miles from my house.  I had on some light weight athletic capris and some old tennis shoes so that I could wade with them.  Come to find out, there's a lot that has 2-3 inch rocks ( Read more... )

Good grief it got hot for a few days!  I'm so not a summer person.  I love my summer vacations off, but there are some many things about summer that are icky.  Rattle snakes, mosquitos, ticks, all the other annoying bugs, seeds in my socks, seeds in my dogs coats, being hot and sweating!  Ew! Sweating. Ok, nuf whining!

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What a whirl wind June was!  The first week of July was crazy too!  I was doing some tractor work and had been invited to work sheep at two different places.  Add in there a trip to La Grande with the Reynold's clan to pick up a new to them SUV things were busy.



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