More camp photos!

The sunfish we brought up in the truck for our friends. Our "payment" for use of the camp.. I can't believe we did that, it needed like a "million" straps.

These photos don't show so clearly what great photos they really are of little Spur. I may have them blow up. You might be able to click on them and enlarge them. They really came out nicely! LOVE the setting!

This was the rock shore we found at the end of our hike. The dogs could swim right out onto the rock. It was cool that day, so we didn't swim and the algae on the rocks might have made it a little dangerous.

Here you can barely tell, but Spur is standing in the water! It was really cool! Roscoe is thinking once about it. One thought - "Nah". Roscoe does not swim. Spur, he swims! Loves it and goes after stick and toys.

Colby likes to swim, too, but her thing is mostly hunting the shore line. I think she could do that for eternity!Back at camp -

Roscoe watching Rich sail away - He wanted to go, Captain Roscoe!Our path along the road on our hike brought us down the remote dirt road. This is a camp road, not much on it but woods and a few camps. We were a little surprised to come across such a fancy camp entrance and fence, with annual flowers and tiki torches and other garden decorations. This is what it led to!!! :O We saw the guy out tending his camp with his huge tractor. No doubt these people live here regularly! OH MY!!! FREAKIN' CUTE - "The Pink Lady". FREAKIN' OUT OF PLACE!!!Castles and pink houses. A few surprises on Sebec Lake.

Rest after our long hike. Roscoe needed a lap to stay warm.
Colby needed her coat. She was still damp from her swim. Spur - he's good to go!If you thought that was the end of camp photos, think again. I am pretty sure I have a few more I haven't had a chance to load. It was SUCH a nice weekend.

This weekend was all about Evelyn. Attended a lovely grave side service yesterday. Several people spoke. How DID they do it??? Her two doberman girls were in attendance. It was a really nice, beautiful cemetery. The reception at the house after was also very nice. The food was amazing. The dog community rallies and comes together in a big way. And that even with a big dog show going on that many people went to anyway. Evelyn would want it that way. She would! She would never want anyone to miss a dog event for her funeral. I would have gone, if I had been signed up. Nothing stopped Evelyn from doing dog-stuff and she didn't want anyone else to stop because of her.

I wore a blue straw hat. I felt remarkably out of place, me being such a fashionista and so concerned about what people think of my appearance. I mean, people, this was an OUTDOOR service!! It was a SUNNY day. Time to wear a hat, muffin heads!!! I was the only one. My nice straw hat with the black ribbon had developed a big hole in it. :( My next best one was blue. I know, seemed a little cheery, but I need a HAT! I get enough sun on my face, so I wore a hat. I thought at least a few other people would be wearing hats. Like, a black straw hat, or something. Nope, I was the ONLY one and it was light blue. But, as I was feeling a little self-conscious I look in front of me at a guy in sneakers, shorts and a t-shirt and I felt better. Honestly, Evelyn was not one for putting on airs, so I am sure a cheery, light blue hat was A-OK with her. Better than skin cancer on my freckled face, damn it!!

Evelyn Stackpole - my friend and mentor. You will be sadly missed by so many. The dog community will have big shoes to fill in so many ways. Who will do all those trophies and prizes? Who will do the Novice Run-throughs at SOC. Who will chair all those committees and club officer seats and memberships? Who will bake all those goods? Who will host all those tracking events and practices and gatherings? Her property was perfect for such things. Who will listen to us when we have complaints and offer sage advice? She leaves a very empty place in the world that will be very hard to fill.

More photos from camp last weekend!!

This is the little boat we were able to take out and tour the lake. The dogs came along, too!This is the tiny private beach!!!! Did I tell you how deliriously happy Colby was? She was........deliriously happy! There were no frogs that we saw, but that didn't stop her from hunting. She hunting the whole time!!!! She worked that shore line relentlessly, deliriously.Right in front of the camp!!! The water was 72! It was SO nice there! The huge screened in porch was a plus, too!!Whoops, this is upside down. We saw these flowers everywhere!These grew in the marshy areas and stream beds everywhere!

The loon family we watched all day on Sunday. They fed their two babies right there in front of camp! Damn, they are big, loud birds!
The loons swam around the blow up trampoline/floating "dock" thingy they had in front of the camp. Talk about FUN!

We took a hike the first day, it was cloudy and "cool". Can you believe I have a sweatshirt on? It felt SO good! This was a rocky area where the dogs could actually swim. Colby loved exploring the shore line. Spur swam after sticks. We are not good at self portraits, especially on a cloudy day. :O
Roscoe had to check out the buffet table......... Of course he did!This "castle" appeared along the shore line when we were out touring. WHAT??? Seriously strange! This was at the far end of the lake. WAY out there!!A shot from across the lake. Nice, but I sure like fields...........

It was lovely, but I don't know if I would ever want to own such a place. SO remote, so far out there. The drive was under 2 hours, but it is pretty remote. GREAT fun to borrow for a weekend, though! When we hiked we saw disturbing signs........."Bear hunting with bait or dogs by permission only". Geez! They didn't tell us to be mindful of bear, but after reading the signs I was sure watchful and a little concerned. Our tiny dogs might make a nice snack! :O It sure was OUT IN THE WOODS and I am sure a great place for bear.

Such a nice featured obit!

I doubt I will make enough of an impression on lives around me to be featured? Do I want to?
It is an honor and she deserves it and her family should be very proud. I am proud. I am proud I knew her so well. I am proud she was my friend. She was a mentor and confidant. She helped me through some tough times with my dogs and cheered me on. I will never forget her. She helped me with tough times with people, too. She was always there if I needed to call and bitch about something. She always understood and would talk to me for long periods, encouraging me and being positive. She made a mark on my heart, that is for sure.

http://www.pressherald.com/news/evelyn-stackpole-78-loved-horses-dobermans-and-kids_2010-07-29.html

We will miss you Evelyn Stackpole!

If ever there was someone who poured their life into the dog world, it was Evelyn! She loved her dobes and her little chihuahua. She never stopped doing what she loved, even when her back hurt, her breathing was rough, she was out there tracking, going to obedience class, off to breed shows, agility shows. She was on the go all the time. She never missed obedience class unless her dogs were showing. She was there. Yesterday, she didn't show up. It is no surprise, but it is so very sad. She wasn't well this year. She touched so many people's lives, I can't imagine how they will have a service for her. It will be crowded, that's for sure.
Very few people love my Roscoe. Evelyn was one. Poor Roscoe has lost another of his few true loves. She truly loved him and saw the good in him. That's rare and I will never forget her confidence in us as a team.
She made me etched glasses with MinPins on them for our MinPin rescue raffles. I have some I will cherrish, always.
Such a sad loss.................she was a well loved person..................

Deliriously happy!!!

Delirious!!!! -

We spent the weekend at a friend's camp on Sebec Lake. Miss Colby Carlson was DELIRIOUSLY happy!!!

Full report to follow with more photos. It was a deliriously happy weekend! At least, that's what Colby told me! The camp was steps from it's own little, sandy beach. Water was 72 degrees. The loons fed their young right in front of the camp all day. We had a GREAT time!!!!

Really? He wants to get warm in the sun!!!???

I mean, really, it's like 90 degrees out and he has to go bake on the flag stones? Seriously, I worried his thin skin would burn? He didn't last long and was at the door panting to come in. He SO loves to be warm.He may not have lasted long because of the crazy land rape going on down the street and the noise and blasting and wierd sounds big scary trucks make may have driven him off his baking stones.

Construction has begun across the street. Poor Gladys is screaming from her grave, yelling at her greedy nieces for selling out. Which is money I am sure they haven't even seen, yet. Poor Mary, our 83 yo neighbor, living in the middle of it. Seriously, the asshole contractor is putting roads on both sides of her cute little cape. How insensitive!!! Like I would expect a land rapist to be? Sensitive? Strange thing is I SO love the trees gone. I LOVE open land and all those crazy oak trees felled kinds of makes me smile. I wish it was going to be grassed over for hay fields, but nope, tiny little plastic houses to perpetuate our mortgage crisis. What was our little town thinking????? No one knows, really. It is an unknown. Our little town survey said we want to keep our farmland, but the town didn't listen. The rapist doesn't have the financing to get this done, either. How did this get passed? We ask you this, Town of Cape Elizabeth. We checked. He has less than $900,000 to start this project. HUH? We are talking road work and sewer extension. I wonder how in the heck our world can get into such a mortgage crisis, then I see this happen. Makes one go hmmmmm......... Cape Elizabeth - perpetuating it all. Sad. The rape of the land is permanent. I mean, really, will the little plastic houses he builds be torn down some day and farm land plowed there again? Doubtful. Sorry Gladys, but if you hadn't been so suspicious we could have figured this out with your beloved land. Oi! But, heck with the rates so low maybe we should refinance. YAY for our recovering economy! Or maybe we buy one of the over 100 homes for sale in this little town. Thanks Cape Elizabeth for deciding it was best to start building another 24 homes. We SO need them here! **Poking my eyes out with hot metal prods!!***

Want a cute little pit bull? OK, I don't have all the details on this little girlie, but she is THE sweetest and cutest little pit bull girl, about 1-2 years old!! She was over-whelmed in a home with a bunch of kids and two other dogs. She gets a little nervous about loud noises and too much activity, but shows no aggression at all. She simply retreats. So, she is being fostered in a quiet home with one other older dog and doing GREAT!!! She is small, about 40lbs is my guess, very active, but has a nice "off" button. Smart as a whip and would make someone a great partner! Absolute luv bug! Interested? I'll try to get more details. She is in Cape Elizabeth with one of my clients.

Look who is a cover dog!!!

Jake, the spinone!! I walk Jake every Wednesday. He is a big boy, now! This photo was taken when he was a pup. His photo is he left hand bottom one. He will be on the Orvis catalog cover!!!



You can read the story here -
http://sarahwinchester.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/cover-shoot/

What a handsome boy!!!