Ben's big adventures

Ben and I are back from the trial circuit. What a week! Here are a few pics, poached from my friends, of our adventures. 

Ben on the fetch at the Wildrose Classic.

Ben putting them in the pen.

Me kissing Dexter after Ben won reserve nursery champion (21 nursery dogs). 

Chris set with Dexter for the entire weekend. We never waited for a set, and they were consistent for the entire trial. Great job! 

Ben WINNING the first go around at Calgary Stampede! 

Princess Power!

Louanne won the trailer AND Reserve World Stockdog Champion. 

Dale Montgomery 2012 World Stockdog Champion. I believe this is Dale's 8th Stampede win. We all think he would make a great judge next year... ;-) 

Celebrating afterwards - we laughed so much my stomach hurt the next morning.

And so ends Ben's adventures...for now. 

Thanks Kristi for the spectacular (as always) shots of Ben at Wildrose, as well as the video of his winning run - even though I told you not to. ;-) 

Time to get back on the horse.

Ben and I are off trialing for the next week and a bit. Wish us luck.

I am lost

I have not blogged for a couple of weeks. My plan on Sunday was to blog about what a fantastic summer we were having so far - hence the lack of blogging. 

The three amigos.

She and I spent a perfect Sunday together, doing random chores and just hanging out. Later  in the afternoon, hanging out on the deck, I told her she was indispensable. 

Monday morning we woke up to a very sick Kate. Monday afternoon I made the incredibly difficult decision to let her go. 

I am left handed. She was my perfect right hand. I am lost. 

Welcome to the farm

Thanks for the new sheep Holly!

The grass is still greener...

Between the cool night temperatures and lack of rain our grass has been slow to come on this spring...so I'm still taking the sheep on "field trips". Today we went down to the neighbour's cabin. I'm getting smarter about this shepherding thing. Today I remembered bug spray, sunscreen...and my iPad - this is 2012 after all! 

If the grass is greener on the other side...

Get over to the other side of the fence!

Of course if you're going to spend the afternoon grazing sheep in the woods, it's nice to have provisions...

and great company.

Of course the funny thing about grass,

is that it really does seem

just a little greener

on the other side of anywhere - there's no satisfying sheep!

My view from the couch

Yep. This is it.

Oh sure, there's a TV back there...

but really...who cares when the entertainment is right in front of me....obviously?