Amyinseattle | September 15, 2011
Was a funny thing… i was talking to a person who was new to stock trials, but had taken lessons and she said (no joke) “I could never handle stock back there! I don’t have enough experience…”. Like that has ever stopped anyone. But i felt bad because i laughed out loud and maybe [...]
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Amyinseattle | September 6, 2011
Let’s get the hard part over with. I drove to San Diego on whim once. So driving to Spokane and back to Seattle randomly it just one of those things. It happens. I went out with the plan of teaching myself to sit and watch. I realized not long ago that i’ve never gone to [...]
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Amyinseattle | August 11, 2010
The big win from this weekend is that it went wrong and i didn’t freak out. Which I have to say is pretty awesome. Click brownie (actually recently discovered truffles from Amore Chocolates) for the handler. I laughed pretty much through our entire takepen debacle and it wasn’t that ‘i have to laugh or i’m [...]
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Amyinseattle | June 2, 2010
i’m sure someone told me at some point that we were not supposed to work the footbath. I just don’t remember it. whoops. On a whim, i entered the Ranch Trial that is this coming Friday. A Ranch Trial is what it sounds like, a trial that is supposed to mimic ranch work. So the [...]
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