Yup, more camping pictures, bet you are excited! LOL. This is ice… we have a 2 gallon.. I think it’s 2 gallons, stainless steel water bucket for the dogs. We actually have two of them but only brought on camping. When we woke up on Monday morning this is what we found on top of it. I should have put something near the pic, but it’s gotta be 2 inches thick at least.

And then there is Chase, who was digging holes and running amok and having a grand old time. I love the dirty face on this picture. He needs another bath.. he had one when we were in Colorado a week or so ago, but after camping, he is a mess. Angel, Tatum, Lucy and Muffit got baths. Chase and Levi need one too!

If you can’t tell, I absolutely love my new Digital SLR Camera. I took a lot of pictures during the camping trip… I have more in a flicker set… but I’ve already posted most of them here. Especially the dog ones.

And speaking of dogs… here is Jezi. This is the ‘collie mix’ that the Ogden Shelter called me about last August. I took her, as we didn’t have any fosters at the time. Imagine that.

Anyway, my good friend at work adopted her! And she’s a happy girl now. She came camping with us and we all had a great time. I like this picture of her, I do think she is a doll, though I don’t think there is much, if any, collie in there.

Since my husband hassled me that I hadn’t uploaded any pictures of my favorite Levi boy.. here is one! Yes yes, I do take a ton of pictures of Tatum. She is just so pretty! How can I resist!

I mean look at her pose. She is so fancy. She sticks her chest out and lifts her head up and is so proud of herself. Yeah yeah, I like pretty dogs. I also like cute dogs and silly dogs… but pretty dogs are just so darn photogenic!

And I do adore my new camera, too. I get good pictures of all the dogs. I guess I should take some scenery pics or something, eh? LOL.

Today, I am happy to say, the dogs are still pretty tired from camping. Yay! Though they did play some when I got home, they are mostly still sleepy and resting a lot. And Levi isn’t even complaining about being on the couch, which is, actually, quite odd.

This is a cute picture of Muffit checking out the hole that Chase was digging. Chase must have really loved digging for the gophers down in Richfield when we were visiting! When we went down there I didn’t get us any travel health insurance, but we didn’t really need any.

And Lucy did great camping, too. She is getting a bit old, and a bit slower… she is 9 now, but she had a good time. She often found shady spots. But she did run around with the younger dogs a bit, too. I am sad that she is getting older… I keep telling her she is not allowed to get any older, but dangit, it’s not working. I love my Lucy girl, she is the oldest of the pack now. She is our cornerstone. We will be taking her back to the vet later this month for another xray, to see if she really does have cancer or not. We sure hope not.

Back from camping! I am sitting here watching TV and all six of the dogs are sleeping. Yay! Tired dogs are happy dogs!

We had a great time. Not having any office space Connecticut style… and not needing an office! We loved being outdoors. It was much too windy, and much too cold. Last night we blankets and coats on the dogs, and sweat shirts. It was getting down to 17 degrees and we ran out of propane, so we no longer had the heater to keep us warm. But we managed through and snuggled with the dogs and we were okay.

All the dogs’ feet are sore. Chase is limping quite a bit, so is Muffit. Lucy and Angel are doing okay but they are getting a bit old, but they had fun. Levi did pretty well too, though he’s not as young as he used to be. And Tatum did so well. She stuck around, and was hardly nervous at all! I was thrilled. And she wore her pink sweater, I’ll post that picture later on.

I am tired, have to go back to work tomorrow… I’d rather have stayed a few more days camping, though. It was just getting nice and warm when we left.

I hope to get some more pictures up in the next few days, they take a while to get through and organize onto flickr. And I’m tired, time for bed soon!

Oh my gosh. Did I say, in my last post, that I had a great time at the Flyball Seminar given by Touch n Go? Well, it was beyond great. The seminar was wonderful. The Team Members that gave the seminar were phenomenal. They were all friendly and supportive and very tactful. I admit, I thought maybe they would be snobby, but they were not at all! Wonderful people!

We learned so much, and over the next few days I hope to post more about it. I am dead tired and have to get some work done. And I have to let the information seep into my brain too so I can digest it. Maybe I’ll need medicare part d to get through all the information in my brain!

This is a picture of our camp setup. JRTs in the high crates. I had the little one up top taken down toward the end of the day, he was making me nervous up there!

It takes me a couple of days to recover from an agility trial. I have decided, no matter how much I don’t feel like it, I am going to start taking the boys jogging again.

Levi did great on Sunday, he should have Q’d both runs and I got mad at the judge for one call.. but he got a Jumpers with Weaves leg and that was good. Man these 10 legs for the MXP and MJP are a long time in coming. And still no double Qs yet.

Today I’m at work and the day is just dragging by. Tomorrow is a short day and I hope to do some blogging catch up then. I actually took yesterday off the computer too and did some dog things, and I need to wash clothes too. Again. Ugh.

This picture is just to remind me of how wonderful, and warm, dog camp was. They had everything there, maybe not kitchen faucets or the kitchen sink, but the food is so good and the weather was so nice. I’m tired of the cold an I’m really ready for spring!

I only got a cell phone last year. So that when I went to dog camp in September of 2006 I would be able to talk to my friends and family, and keep in touch with my husband and the rest of the dogs I left behind with him.

Anyway, small businesses also need good phone systems. I would love to get some sort of answering service for Utah Collie Rescue, but it would have to be donated as we really can’t afford it. But for small businesses Talkswitch is a great option, and NeoBits offers this service as well as many, many others. In addition to Talkswitch, Neobits has over 15 brands of phone systems. And they can support from 2 to 250 users.

Some of the brands they have are Avaya, Panasonic, NEC, Talkswitch, Allworx, Epygi … though I’m not really familiar with these brands. If I was in a small business, though, I probably would be.

NeoBits has over 3,000 customers around the nation, and they have great reviews and testimonials on their site. So if you are in need of a phone system for your small business, you may want to check them out! They can probably do you a world of good.

It is sad, but true. Our sweet girl Angel who we adopted in March of 2002 is really slowing down. We didn’t know how old she was then, and we still don’t know how old she is now. For a while we were guessing she was about 8, and for many years she seemed to just stay 8, so I was hoping she would just always be 8 forever. But now that is not going to happen.

She is probably about 11 or 12 now, we are thinking. She still plays with Tatum and Chase, but she lays down a lot, is having a harder time going up and down the stairs, and likes to stay out in the cold more. Which is kinda odd.

It doesn’t matter how old she is. She came into our lives skinny and with a broken leg. She is now fat and happy (not really fat lol) and has warm beds to sleep on and fun walks to go on, and she spent many a night in our canvas tent on camping trips. But still.. I hope she has many years left with us.

This girl is a goer. I swear she could herd sheep in the mountains all freakin’ day long. After she built up some endurance, of course. She’ll love to go camping when we go, and when she is not stressed about it. For a while when we go out she’ll have some stress, but I won’t push her over her threshold.

When I work from home she checks out the back yard… plays with Bianca for a while, chews on and plays with a rawhide bone for a little bit… man, if only I could teach her to vacuum and dust, that would be the bees knees. I could give her a Patek Philippe watch and she’d be done with the house cleaning by the time I got home!