The Perpetual Motion Machine

Novice Aussie and Handler's Training Diary

The week before Winnemucca

| February 28, 2011

2/22/11 Charm has been getting the majority of my time here lately. Today is no exception, she is starting to work with me instead of fighting me on this driving. Today I started out with some simple fetches then made the fetches some what harder. I placed a rubber tub of oats in the pasture. [...]

A Tale of Two Voices

| December 22, 2010

Sunday was the first time Molly and I competed in the winter mock AHBA Ranch Dog Trial series. We showed up after most folks had already done their first run and i was informed that we had chosen an interesting trial to start with as this was by far the hardest course yet. Yay. For [...]

Happy Accidents

| October 18, 2010

It seems like the successes i enjoy the most are the ones that I don’t do on purpose. The thought process is like this: oh, well this location is sorta different… what can i try here? Oh, there she goes. Lets see what she does. No joke. Now don’t think that she just takes off [...]

Fall Prep

| October 2, 2010

Fall has come to the valley… and it really is a beautiful thing. In any given day there are showers, rain and sunshine. The leaves from the maples and poplars are changing color, giving the hillsides a patchwork look in reds and greens. Thankfully, the walnut trees won’t loose their leaves for another month or [...]

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