Maine Madness Stock trial

Hana and headed up to Maine July 19 for a stock trial that ran three days. July 20th was the Farm trial and the 21st and 22nd were the arena trails.
Pauli and Crook came along, we stayed at the beautiful Belfast Harbor In:
http://www.belfastharborinn.com/ - what a great place to stay with dogs! Huge field that went right down to the water! Hana thought she was in heaven!!



The farm trial was awesome! Hana Q'd in both mixed stock and ducks and I learned a lot about loading ducks into a trailer and up a ramp.. that's the only part of both farm trials that could have gone better and it was not Hana's fault. She did her part. I need to learn to stop moving that stock stick!
Below is a link to the courses we did:

http://www.ascne.org/2012Files/Farm_Show_layout.pdf

Hana finished the weekend with her OTDs title and one ATDd leg. She worked perfectly and I could not be more proud of her.
The weather was perfect, the hikes were awesome and the sights were beautiful. The trials ran well and we were done early on Sunday so the long drive home didn't get started too late. Hated to see the weekend end that's for sure.

New England Regionals!!

July 13 - 15, Greenfield Mass

It was HOT! But boy it was fun! The big dog's team, Lunar Eclipse with Anne Derby and Arwen and Sheila Crepeau and Luna came in SECOND!! We actually got a medal and have our picture on the USDAA web site: http://www.usdaa.com/article.cfm?newsID=2138   How cool is that!!!

Rumor had a wonderful weekend.. despite it being HOT. He won team Snooker and place second in snooker on Sat. I blew our GP finals run on live feed, of course.. by not watching him, he missed the broad jump and rather than fix it, I went on. No big deal, he was wonderful and we had a great time. Even though it was HOT!

New Hampshire Vacation!

Ok, so I am a little behind again! July 4th we took off for New Hampshire to stay at our favorite campground on Newfound Lake. It was Don's last vacation as his new job started July 9th.
We had a blast, hiking swimming and just hanging out. It was great to get away and great to know that he was returning to a job after 7 months.