Author Archive for:ETSjules

Recognizing abundance

Categories:Odds and Ends

"If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place." — Rainer Maria Rilke "Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." — […]

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CCA Elections Results

Categories:The Sable Merle Collie

Congratulations to all and thanks to everyone willing to run for office.  Janie   Collie Club of America Election Results   Officers   President: Robert Myers 900 Sylvie Lingenfelter 440 Write ins:             Joe Reno 1             Jeanne Marre 1             Adria Weiner 1             Jackie Caruso 1   1st VP: Les Canavan 907 Tom […]

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Easy To Spot’s New Website!!!!

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I have dreaded doing a new website for years!!!!  After not being able to get my original website person to update my site in four years I finally had to bite the bullet and do it. I was getting inquiries about litters on my website and I had to tell people those pups are 4 […]

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Happy Birthday Baby!!!

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What a WONDERFUL life to be able to spend one's birthday doing the thing you love to do and surrounded by lots of good people!!!   We brought 8 different cakes and pies to the agility trial.    We sang to the birthday girl and she cut her cake.   Birthday bonus was she and […]

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Ella 01/03/10 jumpers run

Just got bask from a great agility weekend!!!! Ella my Dal had a fabulous weekend.  She was moving! Today she was 8th in the 20″ Ex B jumpers class out of over 90 dogs. She was 2 and a half seconds behind the first place dog!!!!! This is the longest stretch of shows that Ella […]

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Cory ~ Eukanuba 09 ~ Best Bred By Collie

I was so pleased with my little boy Cory. I was late for the Bred By group and ran and grabbed Cory out of his crate, fluffed fluffed in the the ring as best I could and he showed his little heart out. Cory was pulled in the group and that was very exciting!!!!!  

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Dress Barn Party!!!!!

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For all you dog show people just a heads up about Dress Barn…. They have FABULOUS clothes!!!! Each store has two sides. One side for smaller sizes and the other size for women's sizes!!! And both sides match! So if you need a smaller size top and a larger size bottom from a suit they […]

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Holiday Goodies!!!!!

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Our dear friend Francine brought  homemade  Rocky Road fudge to the Papillon Agility trial for us!!! On top of being out of this world yummy…. she decorated it in honor of Masher's trip to the UK for the World team event!!! And it is the shape of a butterfly!!! How cute is that????  

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Duty in Life….

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"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart." — Pearl S. Buck "Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline…too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with…something about yourself, your career, your spouse." — Dale Dauten "Nothing truly valuable arises […]

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40 somethings gone wild……

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We celebrated our friend Kate's milestone birthday at Sevilla in Long Beach after the AKC Invitational.   The restaurant is a cool little Spanish place that serves tapas and tapitas… which are appetizers.We called ahead and bought tickets for their 4:30 Flamenco Dinner and Show. We arrived and were told there was NO 4:30 show. […]

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