New teeter…
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffWe rented some time at the BeBop barn, complete with distracting cats. It took me half an hour to get Dancer's attention! But once I did... I worked some contacts (that was a challenge)... I asked for full-height teeters. And I ...
Random thoughts
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffI made a few minor changes to the recipes. Mostly to reflect further experience with the processes. I have been wearing the Inov-8 312 GTX shoes. I love Goretex shoes. The 312s are nicely generous in width in the toe area, ...
Another hat
Friday, December 25th, 2009 Posted in knitting | Comments Off[caption id="attachment_826" align="aligncenter" width="504" caption="Warm hat, I hope"][/caption] My sister feels the cold. And she likes the hats I make her. So this one is a Christmas present for her (oh well, there goes the surprise). It's similar in design to ...
A first….
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffI went to the puppy park (1000 acres, also known as Sandy River Delta Park) with the curly girls today, with the express intention of walking with them for at least an hour and a half so that they'd be ...
Foggy Day with Doggies
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffMany days I drive Jay to work and then drive from there on out to the great big dog park that is 1000-acres park. Today, no. It was foggy this morning, and I was not going to drive anywhere. So ...
My life is boring….
Monday, December 21st, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffI've been knitting and forgetting to take pictures. The weather has been so wet that I didn't go to the dog park and hence, did not get lost. I haven't been doing anything interesting in training. Sorry. (Dancer did take a full-height ...
“Parts of it were excellent”
Monday, December 14th, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | Comments OffThanks to Dorothy Sayers (her detective Peter Whimsy says "parts of it were excellent" when asked about his wedding night) and Evelyn Robertson (who taught me to say that about every single agility run, before I said anything else). And it ...
How cold is it, anyway?
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »Cold enough to freeze the Columbia River. And I took the girls for a walk anyway. It was nice to have the park almost to ourselves. [caption id="attachment_835" align="aligncenter" width="490" caption="That\'s ice on the Columbia River"][/caption]
Some videos of Dancer and Elly
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 Posted in life with poodles | 1 Comment »Some videos from the ZAP NADAC trial. Dancer, Open Jumpers, Saturday She took first in the 20+" class (of twelve dogs) with this run. (NADAC jumpers has no weaves.) Dancer, Novice Weavers, Sunday (In Weavers, there are always three sets of ...
Some knitting
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in knitting | 2 Comments »With the kitchen under construction, I've been spending my evenings knitting in front of the TV. I've forgotten entirely to take pictures of several hats, but I do have photos of two recent projects. For this hat, I took an existing ...