January: Annie, Winn’s first Rally title, fun times in the snow, training and Winn’s Canine Good Citizen title.
February: Snow!! Hearst Castle and indoor swimming.
March: St. Patrick’s Day, a VERY tiring grooming seminar and chasing chickens.
April: Kansas City with Maisie.
May: Newfoundland National Specialty, meeting new friends and attending a water training workshop with our Canadian buddies.
June: celebrating Maisie turning 5 and Winn turning 1 on our newly designated Annual Dog Birthday in honor of Annie, more ribbons for Winn and Therapy Dog training with Maisie.
July: 4th of July and water training with our friends.
August: Lots and lots of training fun and our very first Newfoundland Water Test (we didn’t do very well, but it was a great experience).
September: Studying hard for our final water test, which was our most successful and a great way to end the summer.
October: October baseball and Halloween, Maisie and I began our quest to find all of the murals in town.
November: Thanksgiving, playing in the leaves and frolicking in the first snowfall of the season.
December: The most wonderful time of the year!
This year, our Christmas card photo shoot was a little easier despite adding an enthusiastic, very large puppy to the mix. I had my trusty assistant who helped with keeping their attention, positioning and hats. Annie is doing a much better job at staying, or she is just more able to tune out my crazy ideas, and Maisie and Winn were terrific!
I couldn’t resist these close-ups of each of them.
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