You know these guys… the main players of Rimrock English Shepherds… Lucas. Dally. Elsa. Or what my family calls them… “The Brown Dogs”… a reference to their sable color – even though we know Dally is a tri – a small detail to my spouse and children. Then there is “The Black Dog”. Boomer. Australian…
Category: Dogs
Wordless Wednesday- “The Guardian”
My Wordless Wednesday entry is: Lucas, acting as guardian of the last few heifers…
Elsa, Dear
Tonight is Elsa’s last few hours to be, uhm… girlish? Female? Fecund? Yeah. That works. Her journey has been fertile. She is coming up on six years of age. She’s had five litters. Two when she was owned by De Butcher in Oklahoma, and three litters for me. Thirty puppies. Yes, thirty wonderful, gorgeous, working…
Sleddogs
Sleddogs My view when I arrived home the other night… An *almost* perfect scene… Think the REA would be upset if I buried all our power lines??? ******************************************************************************* I need to share these photos I also took on my way home. I “almost” walked over and talked to these people… You see, back in the…
First Walk
First Walk I took my first walk with my dogs this afternoon… LONG overdue… My first of 2010… My first since Christmas… My first for waaaaaaa-aaaaay too long! Can you see Elsa’s impatience and Boomer’s passive indulgence? But more, can you see Dally’s LOVE? (Lucas is already in the trees ahead) How about now??? Oh,…
Wordless Wednesday – “Lion’s Mouth”
Poor Dillon’s head in the Lion’s Mouth”
So Long, Sadie!
Well, although little bitty Sadie will continue to grace my house for the next few days… She’s no longer my pup. Sadie gets to go to live with Matt Davis in Kaycee, Wyoming. I know, without a doubt, I’ll see Sadie frequently as she grows and ages. That will be a joy, seeing one of…
Enjoyable to Me
Chisum’s curiosity could have got him in DEEP TROUBLE and the SHOCK of his little life… But thankfully, the electric fence isn’t turned on this time of year! Believe me, I would have been yelling instead of taking his picture! A split second later, his wet nose was ON the insulator and fence wire. It…
Then There Were Six…
I had three pups leave today… Toffee goes to Arizona with Ginny and Tom Baker. Ginny says her cows regularly put them on the fence and she wanted an aggressive female. Toffee is that! Continually in dispute with brother Pate for Alpha position, Toffee is in the lead to do it all! She has great…
Time to Let Go
Well, I ignored any other calls for help today and literally “focused” on the pups today… 196 photos later… I’m satisfied. We went for a short walk over to the haystack… full of deer and rabbit droppings and other exciting new smells… tunnels… and fencelines. Then later a certain fat man came to visit… Today…
O.1538753 Seconds
First of all, here’s the photo of the young golden eagle from yesterday. My camera was left in the car and I was too lazy to walk out in the cold and retrieve it last night. I just hope he remains intimidated by all my dogs and the puppies don’t resemble fat little bunnies… ***************************************************************************…
Chef’s Surprise
The day turned out to be a chef’s surprise… a pinch of this, a tad of that, extra seasoning here, and a full dose of that something special. A golden eagle landed in the branches of my cottonwood, and Elsa, good mother that she is, barked and scolded it. I glanced out the window and…