More Stateside

Spoke to Jackie Clemens last night. Jackie lives in Spokane right now with four shelties, the oldest of which is 18 years of age. The youngest is just a tad older than our Drummer Boy. Jackie and her dog, Nickles, ran scent hurdle with our Due South team. What a time we had. Jackie lived in Montana and she and Nickles practiced with Due South ten minutes before each race.

It worked. Nickles knew the game and just loved to do scent hurdle.

Jackie is actually a wanna-be Canuck and misses us Canadians tremendously. Right now, she is in a race to become, I think, the bionic woman. She has had her hip replaced and is now recovering slowly from a knee replacement. The upside of being a physio patient is that one can look forward to all the agility and herding events that take place this summer, and there are lots of them in Jackie's area. Those of you who would like to touch base with Jackie and cheer her up can email me and I will give you her information. I am sure she'd love to hear from you.

This morning the temp. reads -17C but we still have no wind so we are lucky in our little corner of the province.

Dress warmly while you are digging out to get to work or to your kennels this morning.

The Pres