Another Sunny Day

Posted on February 24, 2011 by admin

The sun was out again today, and we’re loving it while it lasts. All the dogs were in a good mood today. The weather brought out a bunch of people today on our walk today too. Maybe they were out looking for a great memory foam mattress sale or something. It’s probably more likely they were just out enjoying the weather like we were though.

I almost forgot that I was going to take the camera to share some of the spring babies with everyone. The only problem was that the cows weren’t cooperating this afternoon. They were much further out in their field than on some of the other days, so the pictures weren’t very close up. Sorry. I still think it’s a pretty picture though. I’ll try to take some closer pictures another day.

Everybody’s Walking

Posted on April 26, 2010 by admin

Rarely do I take all the dogs for a walk at once. I usually only attempt it when my husband is with me. So, it’s a treat when he decides to come with us. Here’s some pictures from our walk the other day.

The typical way it starts is with a little chaos!

Then everyone settled into their walk, except that Penny’s nose took her into a sagebrush. Deep into the sagebrush. LOL I don’t have a clue what she was looking for.

Penny in the Sagebrush

Then Dare had to stop to pose for me at the top of the hill. I guess she was actually just watching all the other dogs waste their energy, but it was a nice pose for me with the mountains behind her.

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Hmmmm….this group just looks like trouble. Watch out world!

trouble

Twist and Dare taking in the view. Aren’t the rocks in the background cool?

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Happy Raven face!

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I think everybody’s having a good time.

happy group

Lucy loving the water

Lucy in water

Zoe NOT loving the water. Might have had something to do with the fact that she’d just found a disgusting dead deer to roll in and so I thought she could use an impromptu bath before the ride home.

totally worth it

Dare is such a poser.

dare sky

And the walk ends much the way it began, with Layla barking at the dogs to keep going! She might be telling Raven to “put down the prevera wrinkle cream grandma, and run, run, run!” Or maybe not. LOL

come on!

More Photos

Posted on April 17, 2010 by admin

Ok, as promised here are a few more of the photos from last week.

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marie dare and layla 04-14-10

marie dare layla resting

Just Some Fun Photos

Posted on March 21, 2010 by admin

Just thought I’d post some photos from the last month. The first ones are from the first of the month, you might be able to see some of the snow that was still on the trail. After I got home and got to looking at these, I thought it was funny, they kind of remind me of Miley and Guinness’ pictures. I hadn’t even thought of it when I just had Zoe and Dare with me that day. So, here are our copy cat photos. LOL

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And then here are some from yesterday. After the obedience trial we took Twist, Dare and Layla for a hike before we drove back home. You can see it was a beautiful, much warmer day! Yay!

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Layla Dare and Twist 03-20-10

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Oh My!!!

Posted on February 26, 2010 by admin

We all know I’ve been griping for months about the cold and the snow. Well, last week we had a good thaw and it was a horrible muddy mess, but it finally all seemed to be close to drying out when we got hit with that storm that dumped 7 in. of new snow on us. Bleh. Well, once again, it’s warmed up enough to really get things thawing and here’s what greeted me at the front door today.

Layla and Dare muddy

Dare muddy

Layla muddy

As you can see, keeping my house clean for the next little while is going to be a real task. LOL It never ceases to amaze me how dirty these two can get. But, they sure do have a good time running and playing out there, so I guess a little clean up is well worth it. In fact it’s not really anything to complain about. It’s not something serious like if someone we knew had Mesothelioma Cancer or something. Today I’m really grateful to have what teeny tiny problems are mine. I’m going to try to keep in mind that these two muddy girls are trying to tell me that spring and warmer weather are just around the corner.

Penny Loves the Snow

Posted on February 21, 2010 by admin

So to balance out my negative view of the weather we’re having, I thought I’d share Penny’s opinion. Penny has always LOVED the snow. As a puppy she would just bury her head in the fresh snow and run! The Penny Snowplow. LOL In more recent years she has changed her style a bit, though she still seems to really love the feel of the snow. Now she likes to roll in the snow. I got some pictures of her out after the storm yesterday, so I thought I’d share.

STEP 1: Bury the head…

STEP 2: Get the sides involved….

and the other side….

STEP 3: Prepare for the shake…

STEP 4: Shake it! Shake it! Shake it! LOL

Penny snow1

Penny snow2

And then you’re all set. Hope you have as much fun in the snow as Penny does!

Snow….Again

Posted on February 21, 2010 by admin

I know you’re probably all sick of hearing me complain about the weather, but brace yourselves because you’re about to hear about it again.

Just last weekend when we went to the agility trial I was posting pictures of the dogs running on grass. Granted, it was pretty sad looking grass, and you didn’t want to kneel down because it’s wet where the snow had recently melted, but it was grass!

Yesterday, this is what I woke up to.

and this….

and this…

Before the storm was done, we had about 7 inches of really, really wet heavy snow blanketing everything. It warmed up just a bit again in the afternoon and melted part of that down into more of an icy crusted several inches.

Now…it’s snowing again! I’m really so tired of this. I just want warmer weather and no more chiseling poop out of the frozen snow/ice. Is that too much to ask? LOL Apparently it is, if you live in Utah.

Just Some Pictures For Fun

Posted on February 18, 2010 by admin

Just thought I’d share some of the pictures that we took over the weekend. This was one day after the trial. There is a pretty big grassy area close by and we let the dogs play and chase the frisbee. It is so nice to see grass again. It’s supposed to storm here at home for the next three days, but I’m hoping it won’t add up to anything. It’s just finally starting to warm up a tiny bit.

I’m not sure what we did before digital cameras. I think we must have taken over a hundred pictures. It’s just so nice to be able to take as many as you like and then just see them immediately on the computer and find a few that turn out. I think I’d go into withdrawals if I had to go back to my old film camera. LOL It’s so nice with the puppies too, because I have so much better record of them growing up than I do of my older dogs. Anyway…here’s some of the pictures. Enjoy!

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Dare frisbee3 02-14-10

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More Pictures

Posted on January 23, 2010 by admin

So, here are another set of pictures from last month that I never posted. We took a walk up on one of the mountains nearby and these were the pictures.

They all were excited to get started….

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As we went further, no one had walked on the trails yet, so we had to make our own.

Dare deep snow

Eventually most of us decided that we’d let my husband make the trail and we’d just follow.

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You’ll notice that the exception to that statement is Lucy. She just can’t stand to not be in front of everyone blazing her own trail. Then Layla soon decided that she was too big to waiting for someone to make a trail for her either and broke out of the formation. Here she is making the leap….

Layla off the trail

And then sinking into the deep snow. What a silly girl!

Layla sunk

Here’s my favorite bridge on this walk….

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and Dare coming back over to check on why I’m not coming…

Dare bridge

And a little sheltie “family” picture….

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And then the races as we went back to the truck. Penny was the judge, and obviously Twist got distracted at the startline. What a shocker!

races

Looks like Zoe is the winner, and…..Twist is still distracted. LOL

races2

And finally the best place to be when you get home from a cold winter’s walk…

Dare and Layla fire

Snowy Pictures

Posted on January 21, 2010 by admin

So, I got to looking and for some reason I never posted the pictures that I took of the dogs last month. I thought I had, but my memory deceived me. LOL Anyway, we had a storm that dropped about 7 inches on us, and the dogs had a blast playing in the fresh powder. It was deep enough on top of the other snow we already had that Layla was getting lost in it. Didn’t slow her down though.

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