2012 Calendars

Five years ago we wanted to make a few calendars for us and our friends and family.  So we put one together on Cafepress and were very happy with the quality.   We've continued the tradition and our 5th calendar is now available at our Cafepress store - go to www.cafepress.com/blazingstar.   It takes a lot of time and work to put together, but it is also very rewarding to look back over the past year's photos and pick and choose which ones we want to include. 

Because it rhymes, because we got several requests and because she is just such a cool cat, we made one for Salander too (Salander is the cat that keeps us all in line). 

Success in Red Deer for the Brown Girls!

Three Blazingstar dogs travelled to the Red Deer show (amidst the first major snowfall of the season).  

On Friday, Teva (Blazingstar Tansley) won Best of Breed for two championship points.  

On Saturday, Willow (Blazingstar Brown Buffalobean) won Best of Winners for two championship points.  Teva gained her 2nd CD leg in obedience and Kona (Ch Blazingstar Brown Coneflower RN SHDX) passed her first Rally Advanced trial. 

On Sunday, Teva won Best of Winners for another 2 points. 

What a wonderful weekend for Lupine's liver daughters!  We wish we could have been there to cheer them all on, but we are very proud that they were all ably handled by their owners.  

Proud mother, Lupine!

Our Summer & Early Fall

So just what was keeping us so busy this summer and fall?  We packed a lot in:

Liz was doing some work around Waterton and also up in north-central Alberta and we were able to combine work with various fun adventures and the dogs got to come along on some of them.

Puffin in the Kootenay Plains, central Alberta

Waterton Lakes National Park

We made some good progress in both field and obedience training.

Cava

Puffin

We had family visiting, which meant the dogs got a lot of extra attention.

Tinbie

As always, our garden took up a lot of time and energy, but it provided all of our vegetable and fruit needs from May to the end of October, including the dogs'.   We have lots canned, dried and frozen for the rest of the year. 

A small portion of our vegetable garden (with a few flowers too!)

And of course there was the usual river fun at home.

Summer Successes

We have been very amiss in keeping up our blog over the summer.  But we did want to congratulate several owners on their summer successess with their Blazingstar dogs.

Sam, HR Blazingstar Bobolink TD JH Can WCX Am WCX, added the American WCX title to his accomplishments in the field.   Well done Sylvia and Sam!
Odo, Blazingstar King Eider CGC, passed his Canine Good Citizen test in Colorado.  Congratulations to Odo and Tom!

Kona, Ch Blazingstar Brown Coneflower RN SHD, headed south and showed for two days in Montana and won winners female both days for her two major wins and 6 championship points.  Congratulations to Kona, Judy and Allan!

Lindy, Blazingstar Linnaeus CGN CDX JH WCI RE AGXS AGXJS, has been barrelling her way towards her AAC Agility Trail Champion title this summer.  She now only needs 2 more Jumpers Qs and 2 more Gamble Qs.  Well done Lindy and Rod!

Kona at 2.5 yrs old

Bad Blogger

Our apologies for not keeping up to date with our results and news blog.  The summer was filled with much more exciting things such as family visits, field training, swimming, hiking and gardening, leaving little time for blogging.  We will try to catch up with all of the news very soon!

Lindy AGXS AGXJS

Lindy completes her CKC Jumpers Excellent title in Nanaimo July 9, 2011

Those are a lot of letters!  They are CKC agility titles - Agility Excellent and Jumpers Excellent.   Lindy and Rod have had a very successful summer in the agility ring. 

Lindy is now Blazingstar Linnaeus CGN CDX JH WCI RE AGXS AGXJS.

Congratulations Rod and Lindy!

Happy First Birthday to the Seabird Litter!

Our seabird litter turned 1 year old on July 7th.  Happy Birthday to Odo, Ripley, Thor, Kittiwake, Luna, Gulliver, Sooty and Puffin!    What a lovely bunch of dogs they are growing up to be.

Grandmother Lupine posed with Puffin and Luna for a 1st birthday photo: