We...the dogs and I...try to go for a walk every day. It's a good goal but we really only have a true "walk" about 4-5 times a week. Our little neighborhood road is only 1/3 mile long.... going up to get the mail is minimal exercise and the big road at the end simply isn't safe...too much traffic and no shoulders, to speak of. So...in order to get the exercise a brisk walk provides all three of us...I have to put the dogs in the car and drive. I would love it if, like some o

Ginger and I have started herding again. Well, actually, we started up last fall and have reached the winter months where we work indoors (riding arena) rather than outside. Even when the day is nice...sunny and in the 30s or 40s...the footing outside in the pens/fields is too iffy to be safe. Sometimes, though, the arena is much colder than outside. Anyway, we are working with ducks now as our trainer calls them "real" stock. Unlike the heavy (dog broke) sheep that beginnin

We are now (finally) into 2017 and looking ahead to the spring for Ginger's next litter. Unless she totally goes off track in her timing, I think we are looking at puppies around the middle or end of August. We have tentatively settled on a sire (tentative only in that no contract has been signed yet) but more about that later. I'm looking forward to having puppies around again. I had some experience with litters many years ago (one an oops and one planned) but this was the