About Us
I live in Rappahannock County, Virginia, on a beautiful piece of land, with my husband Ken. He’s retired though keeps busy with welding and automotive classes at a nearby community college, and works there too. He does some web design work and trains our dog Jolt (Jolt’s the middle one in our banner up top). There’s an ongoing dispute between Ken and me about whose dog Jolt is. Jolt pretty much has settled it - he follows Ken around like a shadow. BUT Jolt is fickle, and will go with whoever has the frisbee and whoever is willing to run agility with him at any given moment. So the dispute continues.
We have grown children scattered around the country, and grand-kids as well. We’re one of those extended families - married 20 years ago and my oldest child is, well, never mind. She’s not old, but her age makes me feel old. And Ken’s older son is close to my oldest daughter’s age. So we’re not spring chickies.
I raised Saint Bernards for many, many years before we got our first Australian Shepherd and then discovered agility. The great discovery occurred in 1994 at a bench show in Philadelphia where there was an agility demo going on. AKC was at that time in the process of incorporating agility into their performance array of events. Both Ken and I were totally captivated by the sport and began lessons shortly thereafter, and it’s all history from there.
Our Saints are gone, but we now have three Aussies and three Border Collies - and Ernie the Cairn terrier. We both compete in agility events; I show the BCs and one of the Aussies (and sometimes Ernie) in AKC and USDAA trials and Ken runs Jolt (and sometimes Ernie) at UKC agility trials.
In this blog I plan to post training articles, dog stories, observations, … whatever strikes me. An errant web design article might also appear - since that’s what I do when I’m not playing with the dogs. So stay tuned - it might just be fun!
And by the way - Comments are welcome! That’s what blogs are about. One fool blathering and others giving their opinions. All comments are subject to my approval, since blogs are known to be infiltrated by the same sort of critters that get into our email and mess it up, but anything constructive or funny - or just plain-vanilla comments - will be posted, regardless of whether I agree or not.
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