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Back for another post on The Halter and the Heart! As I write this I am five days away from going to the biggest 4-H show in all of Ontario, the Royal Winter Fair. I have spent the last few weeks honing in on training to prepare for this specific show. So, how does one begin the training process? Well that’s the question I want to answer today.  The first step is to halter break your calf. I would say this is the easiest step in training but it is also a crucial point where y

Welcome back!  This month I want to look at a set of photos I took of my dog Harley this past week. I spent about fifteen minutes taking these photos, using a Canon camera, and it was about 2 P.M, the sun just starting to go down.  When I take pictures of dogs I bring one extra thing with me. Treats. Getting a dog to sit nicely and look at the camera will be close to impossible without either a treat or a toy. For the photos below I used some simple beef treats that Harley lo

September 18 Dear Journal, Last night we had a sleep out. We couldn't find a tent, so we dug around the garage and found two tarps, water proof and hole-less. Next we found two trees about 15 feet away from each other and tied a rope between them. We folded one tarp into a good tent size and stretched it over the ground, then hung the second tarp over the rope. Last, we found some sticks, about the length of a pencil and as thick as my thumb. We used them as tent pegs, staki