Here Comes the Sun...

Here are the starts!

 

We have 75 tomato starts, three different types of peppers, sunflower, celosia, amaranth, coleus, and a thousand billion jillion begonias. Where, you ask? Our living room. Totally normal behavior.

 

You ready, The Quilting Doberman? Plants coming at you soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And then the creatures. Gemma likes the dirt bucket.

 

 

And sunbathing.

 

 

Nora in the grass.

 

 

 

And the boy.

 

 

Anemone.

 

 

Poppy.

 

 

 

Tulip!

 

 

Anemone.

 

 

Another Tulip.

 

 

Last year's green onion... (Oops. It's not really supposed to bloom...)

 

 

More Tulips and Hyacinth.

 



Airscent Training

Okay - no post in forever, but today was so much fun, I can't resist.

 

We got to train in a secret fairyland place today. The wooded areas are wonderful and open and the ground is covered in moss... Fairy. Land.

 

Normally each dog works a 20-60 acre area and searches for a couple of human subjects. Today another handler and I tried something a little different. Jack and his friend Benny worked together!

 

After they sorted out the wiggles... and barking...

 

They got to work!

 

 

And worked...

 

 

And worked...

 

 

Once they got into the subject's general area, both dogs worked out the scent picture a little bit differently, but they ended up at the subject at the same time, raced back to the respective handler, indicated, and performed the refind at the same time too.

 

Then it was play time!

 

 

 

 Jack and Benny compared toys.

 

 

It was such a cool problem to work through - a touch of confusion, a little bit of distraction, and a really cool ending. Wonderful, wonderful day out in the woods!!!!!!!