The Best Plans

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Well, I was hoping not to leave the blog empty this week but wow, time flies. I did have time (with a great deal of help from Lynda) to get a couple of new workshops [...]

Stressed?

Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010

So the weekend was fun (in my opinion anyway). It was my first (but I don’t think my last) Creating Your Trial Stress State workshop. I executed more than 20 (some little and some big) [...]

Creating the Perfect TSS

Posted on Friday, March 5th, 2010

So, I have a workshop this weekend that I have never taught before. I can’t really go into too many details because I know some participants read my blog. In order for this curriculum to [...]

Shaping and Stuff

Posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Wrapping up some lose ends here. First of all thanks to everyone that contributed to the Shaping Challenge. I hope you all had fun and learned lots. I did promise I would reinforce one of [...]

Olympic Thoughts

Posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010

What a great hockey game on Sunday afternoon eh? Those pesky Americans just wouldn’t go away. With the age and the talent of that US squad I think the future of international hockey in the [...]

Heading Home!

Posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Finally! John and I are cranking up the Empress (truly the brand name of our RV) and heading home today. If the roads are clear we should be home by Saturday afternoon. Our rescue BC [...]

Need Your Input

Posted on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

First of all thank you. All of your comments and concern really did wonders to get me out of my funk yesterday. You guys rock, I mean that, thank you. Now I need some input. [...]

Whoa is Me

Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I haven’t written much in the last week because honestly each time I try to write I am overwhelmed by depressing thoughts that I don’t think belong here. I have always preserved this blog to [...]

You Won’t Believe This!

Posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

All of us Border Collie owners better stick to agility!

Way to funny! Today I am grateful that the snow has finally stopped in Cincinnati!

Oh CANADA! . . . and a few other miscellaneous thoughts.

Posted on Monday, February 15th, 2010

First of all a big congratulations to Alexandre Bilodeau for bringing Canada it’s first ever Gold
Medal at an Olympic Games that we where hosting (sadly in Montreal in ‘76 and Calgary in ‘88 we [...]