Separated at birth?

There is border collie that lives in South Carolina that might as well be Lilly’s long lost twin. Her name is Lucy. She not only looks like Lilly,

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Agility pumpkin

Happy Halloween! Here are our pumpkins for 2007. Mine features Lilly taking a jump. Tom’s is just a great face.

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These are the contacts in our neighborhood

Sing along with me — ye, of the Mr. Rogers generation. These are the contacts in our neighborhood … in our neighborhood … in our neigh-bor-hood. One of

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Season’s first SNOW

It started snowing Saturday night and didn’t stop until early Monday morning. It was warm enough, though, that much of it melted as it fell. Plus, I took

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Hey, buddy, are you LOOKING at me?

I often find myself at my desk, working away, until a commotion outside gets my attention. It usually starts with catching a black streak out the window in

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Sheep herding slide show

Another border collie gal I know here in CO sent me a link to this photo slideshow from a recent herding trial. Since it has been l-o-n-g day,

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Stage mom?

I know that my non-agility friends don’t get it. I’m quite convinced they are quite convinced that I’m a total stage mom. Those of you with performance dogs

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Lap of luxury

I allow my dogs on the furniture. I know some people don’t, but I do. Strategies for preventing too much dogification include putting comforters bought at garage sales

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Ground control to …

Now that the wild meadow grasses have gone to seed, it’s time to trim the pastures. It’s both a fire mitigation as well as a see-the-snakes-better tactic. This

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Happy summer! (photos)

After the many, many winter snowstorms came a higher number of spring rains than usual. So, we have lots more wildflowers than past summers. A couple days ago,

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