Home, Sweet Home – Making Our House Into a Home

It must be hard to be a Border Collie.

Meet Grace.  Grace is a 10 month old Border Collie who is training to become an Olympic Stock Dog (if that really existed).  She has intense brown eyes and silky black hair.  In her free time, she enjoys long walks in the woods, snuggling with her daddy, and chewing on plastic drink bottles. Meet Billy.  [...]

This weekend was a herding clinic and nursery trial at Red Creek Farm in Townville.  We had a great time working our dogs, watching/judging nursery trials, and socializing with good friends.  The weather cooperated on Saturday but not so much on Sunday.  Either way, we had a great time! To view more pictures from the [...]

Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again. – Ecclesiastes 11:1 I would love to say that I cast my bread upon the water very regularly, but I don’t.  I’ll admit that I’m a little selfish with my time and with my money, but this week I feel [...]

but Rosie and I know the real truth!

We had a great weekend!  On Sunday, Jerrad and I visited some friends of ours at Red Creek Farm. Jon and Carol Anne run a cattle & sheep farm and train border collies for herding on farms in and stock dog trials.  RCF also has a boarding facility with grooming. Anyway, we loaded up our [...]

I apologize for the terrible quality of this picture, but I took it with my phone.  This is our little dog Grace, my husband’s best friend, waiting very impatiently for him to come back home.  He left this morning to go hunting for the weekend.  His best little friend, Grace, got excited because she thought [...]

Hello everyone!  This is my first official blog post.  And who am I?  My name is Jill.  That’s right.  I’m giving Kathy a break this week since she’s been busy helping me take care of my puppies.  Oh yeah, maybe I should mention that I’m not really a person.  I am a purebred 4 year [...]

Gunner and I won 3rd on Saturday, 1st on Sunday and the Overall Prize this weekend at herding trial at Red Creek Farm in Townville..  It’s the highest we’ve ever placed in this particular class.  We’ve been working and training in this class for over a year now.  I’m so proud of him!