Roland and Scotty

It's been a while huh? I've been to Michigan and back and been keeping myself busy since getting back last week. Roland has been super busy presenting at conferences and writing his article. He has finished a draft of the article, which is awesome and is hoping to be able to send it out for the fall submissions to journals.

So lets go back in time to when we left for Michigan. There was a flyball tournament in Orlando so we decided just to use that as a first leg and take off from there.

Roland got to run Scotty at this tournament and did a fantastic job. Scotty is not the easiest dog to run because he's pretty crazy, but I think that made Roland a good match, becuase he is perpetually calm. It was kind of funny to watch Roland standing there all completely calm holding Scotty who was yanking against his harness and generally doing his best to impersonate a rabid dog. Bleys shared a spot with another dog and did very well. He earned his FDX (500 points) and it was generally a good time. One of the other dogs earned her FM (5000 points) and I made her a crate tag to celebrate it. I thought it turned out really well.

Go on, get crafty!

I'm going to a Holiday dinner for the Boca Raton Dog Club and they are having a gift thing. So I needed something dog related (either for a dog, or for a dog loving human) that was under $25. I decided that I would make something and it would most likely be cheaper. Plus I like making things. I opted for this shoulder tote with Scottish Terrier embroidery. I chose this design because of all the canine choices that fit in my hoop, this one was on sale (only $1) and I already had colors of thread that would work. It only has three colors in it: black, dark gray, and light gray. If I had unlimited funds I would prefer that the dark gray was darker, but cheap won out. All of the fabrics I chose were on sale, and not very expensive to begin with, so all told I think I spent $13.