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Welcome to Wendy's Blog!

Wendy Beard: Mother, Dog Trainer, Agilty Competitor, AAC judge, Engineer, Photographer.

Wendy lives in Carp, Ontario, just outside Canada's capital.

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Exhibition Details

Here are the postcards advertizing the PDML exhibition at the DANKHaus.

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Pictures at an Exhibition

One of my photos has been chosen to be displayed at an exhibition of prints by members of the PDML (Pentax-Discuss Mailing List) at Gallery Dank Haus in Boston. The exhibition opens on May 7th. All the exhibition photos plus more from other members will also be featured in a book to be published shortly […]

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Skiing

For the first time in at least 4 years we went away for a couple of days with friends Chantal & Rob. We started at Mont Tremblant on Mondy, then drove over to St-Sauveur Monday evening to ski there on Tuesday. I’d forgotten how much fun it was! The slopes weren’t too busy despite it […]

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New Dogmobile!

After yet another trip to the garage with the white van, this time the heater fan broke (again), we came to the conclusion it was time to stop throwing money at the old girl. We took the plunge and bought a 2008 Grand Caravan to replace the white one. Now I have a lot of […]

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Happy Birthday, Matthew!

22 today đŸ™‚

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Indy RN

At the BDOC rally trial this weekend, Indy earned her CKC Rally Novice title with two scores of 99! She also earned her first advanced leg on Sunday. Good girl Indy!

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Agility Engineer

Not me – but a girl called Jessica I discovered this while surfing around the internet, following a link from the agilitynerd blog She has a couple of good rants on there, well worth a read! http://agilityengineer.blogspot.com/search/label/Rant

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A Good Start

Our first trial of the New Year is over and already Ivan has earned himself a couple more titles. At Morningstar in Kingston this weekend he earned his Master Jumpers and Master Snooker titles! Tyra pulled off Qs in the first two standard runs of the day to earn her Gold Award of Merit (50 […]

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Looking Back on 2009

2009 was a good year for us competition-wise Ivan started competing in agilty at the end of April, just before his 2nd birthday. Between then and the end of November, he earned 15 agility titles in three venues (AAC, CKC and AKC) plus 2 Rally novice titles (CKC & AKC) I am absolutely blown away […]

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Poem

The previous post reminded me of a poem Sara Coleridge “Calendar” January brings the snow; Makes our feet and fingers glow. February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again. March brings breezes, loud and shrill, To stir the dancing daffodil. April brings the primrose sweet, Scatters daisies at our feet. May brings flocks of […]

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