3rd Bloggiversary!

Looks like I missed Tails of Teach's 3rd Bloggiversary!  It was on Sunday the 13th.  I can't believe I've kept this going for 3 years already.  Even though this past year has really slacked off with the posts.  Its not for the lack of trying ... LOL!

So when we started the blog our family was a family of 3, myself, Randy and Teach.  Then last year we became a family of 4 with addition of Tucker.  I guess at some point I should have changed the name from Tails of Teach to Tails of Teach and Tucker since I mostly post about both of them now.  But I'm leaving it for now.  Maybe sometime down the line it'll change but for now its still Teach's blog.  He just allows posts about Tucker.  HAHA!

I think my last "true" post was back in October or the first of November with a recap of Tucker's show at the East TN Collie Specialty.  Since then we have taken Tucker to one more show in Pennsylvania.  But we weren't so lucky at that show and didn't come home with any ribbons (but still came home with the best dog!).

On the way home we stopped at Gettysburg Battlefield to walk around and stretch our legs.  And of course I had to get pictures.  It was right around sunset so we got some really cool pictures.

Teach and Tucker continue to excel with their agility training.  There is a show coming up the first weekend of January we are going to.

Tucker has accomplished doing 6 straight weave poles for about 3 weeks now.  So proud of him.  Doing them 2x2 is the only way to go!!  I think it took us about 6 months to get here.

Teach is still learning them.  I've struggled finding a motivator for him doing the 2x2 method and our awesome trainer told me to have him weave for dinner.  So that's what we do now.  I put an empty bowl on the reward line and if does them he gets a bite.  And we do this until dinner is gone.  We are also progressing, albeit slow!  

Lets see ... I've been taking lots of pictures so I have no excuse for not posting on Black and White Sunday or Wordless Wednesday.  I need to learn to use the scheduler and start scheduling these posts!  

I did get try my camera skills getting pictures of Madalynn with Teach and Tucker for Christmas Card pictures for my family.  We got some really cute ones!!  Everyone did so well and if wasn't for Madalynn's favorite (Uncle Randy) we wouldn't have gotten smiles from her.  HAHA!

So with that I'm going to save some pictures for future posts and not share all!  Thanks to everyone who has stuck around to read and see the pictures.  Maybe one of these days's I'll get better at writing blog posts.  Until then ... enjoy the pictures.

A Real Post

WOW ... It's been a long time since I've actually posted anything.  There's a reason ... our life has been busy and boring ... HAHA!

Several weeks ago my family lost our Grandma.  She was 92 years old and lived a very full and wonderful life.  We're all going to miss her!

My Grandma and I at my wedding in 2011.

The boys have been good.  They are keeping us busy.  As you saw yesterday they got to start agility lessons.  I've wanted to do try agility for a long time.  My friend Laura has built equipment but I found out yesterday that's the easy part of agility.  Its all about handling and the dog being focused on you.  We have a long road ahead and I look forward to trying it with both of them.

Of course there has been time for hiking.  I can always find time to throw that in there.

Had lots of backyard fun.

We celebrated Tucker's first birthday and also our niece Madalynn's!  Hard to believe they are both a year old.

We do have a conformation and obedience show in 2 weeks.  Teach has one more leg for his BN title and we're hoping for some points for Tucker!!

That's a good run down of what has been going on with us lately.  I hope to get back on a regular schedule with posts.

A New Year

Welcome to 2015 everyone!!  I'm not one to make resolutions so I won't bore you with a long list of what I hope to accomplish.  I have said that for my New Year's Resolutions I'm not making a resolution but by saying that I did and already failed ... :-)

So moving on.  We ended and start 2014 and 2015 with some fun hikes.  Just the way I like it.  We had a stretch of decent weather (no rain and frozen ground).  So it was the perfect opportunity to get out there and enjoy the dogs not getting so muddy.

Teach and Tucker enjoyed a good game of chase when we came to field on one of our hikes.  And also took pause on a table so I could get some good head shots.

Tucker wants to box ... Teach puts up with a lot!

We have added a page to our blog for how to contact us to review products for your company.  This is something I thought would be fun to try.  We may never get the chance but I wanted to add a page out there just in case.

An update on Tucker's training progress for the breed:  We're going to sign up for Conformation Skillbuilding 1 class through the Fenzi Academy.  I'm hoping with this class we'll learn even more than we already have and help us succeed in the breed ring.  I'll be honest that my true passion/love lies with the performance aspect of the dog world, but we are having fun with the conformation side of things and want to continue and be successful.  But if we don't Tucker is going to make a GREAT performance dog.  He shows great promise already at a young age.

Teach is still Teach ... ol' faithful.  He really is the best dog anyone could ask for.  Easy going and puts up with so much from Tucker (look at the pictures above!).  I want to finish his Beginner Novice title and his Novice title but no rush on those either.  He enjoys working and learning.