The dogs and I have big plans this weekend! On Saturday morning we are heading down to Lake Hodges for a nice easy hike, don't want to go to far because we have the CPE agility trial on Sunday!

I finally completely updated our website. I hope everyone enjoys the new pictures and look

The dogs and I have a really great weekend this past weekend! Saturday started off with agility down at the field. Huck got to play with his big ball, that he killed after only 2 outings! RIP big ball, LOL. Then later that afternoon, Cynthia and Sage and Skyler and my sister Robin all went for a really fun moonlight hike down at Sycamore Canyon.

The nighttime hike!

Then on Sunday we met up with Carol and Jim with Penny and Chrissy and headed down to Point Loma, we had a wonderful day and beat the heat in Ramona!

Saturday Carol, Jim and I took the dogs down to the bay to beat the heat. They had a great time and ran like crazy. Huck and Penny had a great time playing and swimming in the water!

The dogs and I have been doing at least one hike a weekend. We have been having lots of fun! We went to Mt. Laguna with Cynthia, Skyler, Sage and Gator!

Saturday Huck and I were up and out early for a show n go in Riverside and met Lauralyn and Apache. We had a great time and met new friends, Oliver and Anna. Huck did good, the first run, he was awesome until we got to the weaves, then he shut down and ran a muck! I got him back and we finished the course. The next run I skipped the weaves and he did perfect! So we need to work on our weave poles!

Then on Sunday we all got up early and headed to the reserve for a hike, it was a beautiful morning and we got finished before the heat started!

The dogs and I had a wonderful weekend! I left on Friday afternoon and drove up to Costa Mesa, checked into the Motel and then went to the agility field, saw some old flyball friends and set up the easy up and waited for Suzi. Then afterward the dogs and I went back to the motel for some relaxation and dinner. Saturday morning we got up and drove up the coast a bit then came back and met Suzi and Jiggs at the agility trial to do some pictures. It was alot of fun! Then later Suzi picked up some mexican food and brought it to the motel.

Thanks to Suzi for taking these shots!

 Then on Sunday Huck made his debut!

Wyatt ran first in Jumpers, which was good, because I ran the course and knew it by the time it was Huck's turn. he had a great run, with one minor mistake, placing 2nd and earning his first Q! Wyatt won his class in jumpers also. Then Callie ran in Fullhouse and had a perfect run placing 2nd and a Q and Wyatt also ran in Fullhouse, winning his class and earning a Q. I was very proud of Callie and I because we earned that ellusive 2nd Q in Snookers and she placed 3rd

In Colors Huck was great and while he missed a jump and headed for a tunnel, I got him back on track and had a blistering run winning his class and earning his 2nd Q! What a fun weekend and I look forward to more Qs from the Huckster!

On May 30th, I had the pleasure of going to North Arabians to their open house. It was so lovely and the horses were breathtaking! here are some of the pics.

The dogs and I have been very busy! Between hiking, agility and work we are staying pretty busy.

We also have taken a couple trips down to the Fiesta island. Huck thinks that is the greatest place.

We also have been doing ltos of hiking. One of the latest adventures was around Lake Hodges

I have not posted to the website in a while. Alot has been going on and most of it is good stuff. The dogs and I are having alot of fun hiking the hills of San Diego as well as doing agility. Huck is coming along wonderfully and we are turning a new chapter in our agility training, starting private lessons with Ann Platt and a handling class with Marla Cooper, both  run very successful agility dogs and fast dogs, I am looking forward to learning what they have to teach us!

Also born on March 12th, to Joy, is Joy's Delight "aka Lucy", a darling little filly, with a fiesty personality and the cutest little "L" on her forehead!

Hiking at Cedar Falls

Hiking at Barrett Ranch Preserve

My sister Robyn and I with Callie and Huck at Cedar Falls

Joy and her new filly

Hiking in Elfin Forest

My friend  Cynthia and I took the dogs up to the Mountains to see the snow. it was Huck's first trip to the snow and lets just say his reaction did not disappoint us ,LOL. Can anyone say NUT!! It was 26 degrees and he went into the freezing creek, LOL then the water on his coat froze so he has icicles on him , but he didn't care, what a nut!

Huck and I had a great time on Sunday up in San Clemente at the Handling Outside the Box Workshop with Marla Cooper, Huck did great and shows great promise of being a really cool agility dog, I cant wait until next Summer!

Wyatt and I had a great time up in Long Beach at the Eukanuba Cup on Saturday. He had a blast smoozing with everyone and they had a short earthdog tunnel with a fake mouse at the end and he was buzzed up all day because of it ,LOL. Suzi came by and saw him in action and got some great shots. it was fun hanging out with my PRT friends, one of the dogs that was there, is also named Wyatt, he was the number 3 Parson in the country in 2006 and the sire of my future pup, I just love that dog, just a gentleman, so handsome and he has drive too. Thans Suzi for these pics!

Then on Sunday the dogs and I went up to Murrieta to an agility trial. I had Callie entered in Standard and Snookers and Wyatt entered in Jumpers and Wildcard. Callie went first in her standard run, she had a good run until I threw my shoulder and she went past a jump, but I called her back sent her back over it and we finished her run, she still managed to Q and place 1st. Wyatt had a flawless run in Wildcard and a speed demon run in Jumpers, he won both his classes and Qd in both, he had a blast Callie's snooker run was kind of strange and I got the whistle, so she didn't Q, although she did place 1st, which tells me everyone else was that much worse then we were, LOL. Thanks Suzi for these pics!

Allegro, Slick and I went on a great morning ride. The weather was perfect.

I have been having a blast riding again, here is Shine and I the other morning.

I look like I was taking a mug shot ,lol

Sunday Cynthia, Skyler and Sage and a new terrier friend, Heidi with Rocky came to the ranch to run and hunt for critters. All the dogs and us too, had a great time.

The gang hanging out on the rock

Huck thought the mud puddle was way cool!

He also has decided avocados are yummy!

Wyatt waiting for us to catch up

On Sunday Cynthia and I took sage, Skyler, Huck, Wyatt and Callie to the new Bennett Ranch Open Space Reserve for a hike. It was the first time we had been there and what a really cool place! The dogs had a great time and I will definately be going back there for a hike!

Huck as started agility classes on Saturday afternoons. we are having so much fun! I can't wait until he can start competing!

On October 21,2007 around 3:30 AM, a life altering disaster hit us hard at Rancho Del Cielo. It is amazing it has been a year, in many ways it seems still so fresh in my mind, then in some ways it seems like a bad dream. During the year there were times I would wake up in the morning and as I was waking up, with my familiar little warm bodies snuggled around me, I would think it was just a dream, I refused to open my eyes because it was then that it would be pounded in my brain again that it was not just a dream.

Over the course of the year, I have laughed about the obsession about the can opener, or washing the very dirty  dogs in the posh bathtub at the hotel, leaving a black soot ring behind, but at least they were clean,or running around looking for a store that was open to buy something to wear, anything to wear, finally finding a grocery store that was open that sold men's sweats!! Thank goodness for Bev and Gail, for bringing me some clothes, I didn't have to wear the extra large men's sweats out in public!  Or the cell phone video Bev and Dylan took of Jace as she said ?I wuv you? and ordering pizza that none of us really ate.  Then  spending 3 weeks in Lauralyn?s little trailer in the parking lot at the assisted living and every morning, Wyatt and Callie running out to greet Margie as she drove in to work at 6AM and watching Will & Grace, Walker Texas Ranger, CSI, Dog Whisper DVDs over and over again because they were  mindless and I could not handle anything that was not! Under different circumstances, all these would be fun memories to have.  Then there was moving into the trailer on the ranch, no propane, electricity , heat or phone service but we were at home! The dogs and I were settling in. Then it was time to bring Allegro, Allie, Slick and Shine home from the horrible place we had them for the month  to their temporary stalls. It was sad , their reaction to the barn being  gone was heart wrenching yet it felt so right that they were home! The last year was filled with every emotion you can feel, you get a numb feeling after a while and in a way that numb feeling is still with me, while I am stronger  in some ways, I am weaker in others, small stresses become big stresses and little things seem huge. The decision on Jace was a hard one under normal conditions, but due to the high stress, it was  beyond agonizing and incredibly sad and hard for me to deal with, it still is, I am just now getting to the point I can even look at his pictures, the thought of getting rid of his little coat and collar is something I have not been able to bring myself to do yet, even though Wyatt's father, Charlie  will get his coat and Jace's brother Wrath will get his beautiful leather collar .  The rebuilding and moving the horses in and then myself was emotional and my moving into my new place was overwhelming and filled with guilt, but it is finally feeling  like  home. Huck has brought a new happiness and his exuberance and happy personality is a welcome  relief to the sometimes down feelings that  still come up. One of the greatest gifts of all are the 2 foals we are expecting in march. Allie will foal around march 23 and Joy will foal around March 29th. Allie's foal is a blessing as she is in foal to Fames the same stallion Jewel was in foal to! That will be a special foal and we are working on a very special name, starting with Del Cielo, because it will be the first foal born out of a mare that will be our new foundation mare, Allie, the new queen of the ranch. What I have learned in all of this, is life goes on, I am alive, I have my dogs, the horses and my friends, losing beloved friends is beyond heart wrenching  but you have to move on, as long as their loss was not in vain and it was not! We have a real plan if there is a next time, after all, we never thought it would happen to us! We are healing, our wounds have scabs over them, it will be a long time of nursing those wounds before we are healed, if we are ever healed. We have a ways to go before we are completely back to where we were pre October 21, 2007, but we are on our way! I have had incredible support, from my friends, fellow dog lovers, horse lovers and people from all over the country I don't even know. I can't tell you how much it all has meant to me, I could not have made it without all the support. Thank you all and here is to a new beginning and a coming new year, may it be the best year ever!


Thank you all!