Digging in the Snow

We had to dig the pony fence free from the snow before the drifts settled and destroyed the fence completely. The girls were quite a help--more than we expected. Molly was much more productive and focussed than Shawnee, but both helped.

Note: Pics are taken with the cell phone. With all four of us digging, it wasn't reasonable to have the camera with.

The Girls in the Snow

Please forgive the insane lack of updates lately. Bex has been down with a concussion since before Christmas and still isn't right.

Description limited because of writer's health. Suffice it to say, we have too much snow. No picture of it, but Molly has been helping water the ponies. I put on her seat belt harness because it is comfortable for pulling and tie her to one of the smaller water jugs. She drags it out to the ponies' trough so I only have to pour it in. She sometimes needs help getting it moving again after a pause, but she is VERY good and loves the job. Shawnee helped once, but has an injury on some of her pads, so is off duty right now.

SD Photo Shoot

There was a request on the level training mailing list from a Canadian SD trainer. She needed pics of SDs in action for a presentation. So of course we volunteered what we have on our blog. But we didn't have much that showed the girls in action that much, especially not Molly in uniform in action.

So DH helped me out and we did a little photo shoot Saturday. The situation may be posed, but the work is real. This is some of what they do for me on a daily basis and even these better shots don't do their jobs full justice. I don't know what I would do without the Bookends. On a day like today, I probably wouldn't even get out of bed if it weren't for them. But enough of that. Here's the shots.

This is how I put on and remove Molly's vest. Bending over to do it just isn't an option.





We couldn't forget to include Shawnee. I think it is pretty clear that she has earned an SDiT status!

Happy Halloween

Although Denmark doesn't really celebrate the holiday, we wanted to share a bit of cheer with the parts of the world that do.

Forgive the underripe pumpkin--too little sun.

 

Shawnee Reports "Please Vote fur Jin"

A puter frend wunts ta be a servis dog like Molly. But hiz peeple arn't as happee doin it demselves as Mommee iz.

So pleeze vote fur dis hansum fella in da hopez dat hiz peeple kan win enuff monee ta pay fur his skool.



Not all dogz kan be as luckee az me n Molly n be homeskooled by sumwon like Mommee!