Gracie Says HI!

Gracie had her first weekend in AKC Preferred Agility. She LOVES jumping 16", rather than 20". No surprise there. She qualified and placed first in all five classes for the weekend. Her Aunt KK ran her in Standard on Sunday. The consensus and unsolicited comments were unanimous: Gracie LOVES 16"!!!

Everyone said that Grace looked happy, relaxed, easy, eager to jump, and comfortable. I've long thought that Gracie was really a 16" dog. She jumps like a 16" dog. Over the years, I've found that watching the 16" dogs was more beneficial to me for getting handling tips for G., than watching the big striding 20" dogs.

I may try to challenge her AKC permanent height card, and see if we can get her measured down to 18", so she can jump 16" in the regular classes. Even if that doesn't work, I'll keep her at 16" and let her run in preferred as long as she likes, and as long as she wants to keep playing this game. As her partner, it was very gratifying for me to be on the other end, watching how happy she was to be back running agility. And, I was happy she made me run faster than ever to handle her properly!!

The Eggs Go On Forever. . .

. . .and the scrambles never end.

So, I got a great deal on eggs today. Buy one 18 pack and get one free. We usually use a dozen eggs every two or three weeks. What am I going to do with 38 (two left over from the last dozen) eggs?

If anyone has any ideas on how to prepare and preserve all these eggs, so that I can eventually feed them to my dogs, without putting the dogs on an all-egg diet, please leave comments. My plan is to make a quiche or two (for the people) and then do a big egg and cheese scramble, which I will freeze in muffin cups for the dogs. Other, more creative ideas requested!

Also, who noticed the reference to one of my favorite Texas singer/songwriters? I thought so. :-)

Blogs To Read

I've been reading fun blogs lately. I've already posted about my favorite, the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks. I submitted a photo to that blog, which was recently posted. I'm famous!

Crazy Aunt Purl writes a great blog. She's currently on a book tour to support the book she wrote based on her blog. Go Aunt Purl!

For the best celebrity gossip, and I have almost no need for it in my life, I take guilty pleasure in reading Pink Is The New Blog.

Now, those are the first three blogs I check on days when I'm checking blogs. Not a one of them is about dogs! Or indy, alt-country, Irish-punk, ska, Iowa folk, Todd Snider-ish music.

OK, well, I can't very well post about a cat related blog and not mention even one dog site.
Here's an agility blog: Days of Speed And Slowtime Mondays. The Dog Politics blog. The Pet Connection blog.

Did someone say Irish punk? Shane, where are you?

Fundraiser

SamFans was an early Samoyed specific email list. I'm one of the people who started the list. Back in the day before Yahoo Groups, a few Samoyed Fanciers met on Canine-l and rec.pets.dogs and began emailing one another. Pretty soon, we were copying and pasting ten or twenty or more email addresses in the To: field on our emails. And, a list was born.

One of the regular contributers to the list, and ardent supporter of Samoyed Rescue is terminally ill. To honor him and the work he's done, the list is offering the original Tripper shirt for sale. http://www.samfans.org/fundraisers/. All proceeds will go to Arizona Samoyed Rescue.

Tripper was my first Samoyed. His ears never stood up all the way. When the graphic for the t-shirt was designed, Dave Brown, turned an ear down on one of the dogs for Tripper. If you look at the image, Tripper is the center dog in the second row.

It's been years since I've participated on that list, but I'll buy a t-shirt both for Ron, and for Tripper.