Summer 2010 Camp Doings :o)

Well, we've had alot of Spring rain and a new resident Beaver has made a itself a Lodge and is active nightly "banking" the spillway/dam/walkway with sticks & mud to raise the pond water level (and every morning, I restack the long sticks and reopen a small water runoff area) ...  the kayaks are now out and with the higher water level, we can still kayak out into the Marsh and enjoy the sounds of song birds & the chorus of the bullfrogs and catch a glimps of mother ducks with their various numbers of ducklings ... even startled a mother deer with her fawn grazing the marsh grass  ;o)

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  My niece Pam and one of her Rotty pups came for an afternoon and my Goddaughter Jess visited for 2 overnights :o)
  
  
• Sutter & I had a day away together at a seminar called "The Nose Knows" and we had a blast ... Sutter always loves/needs a job to do, so she worked to master some new interactive/educational toys ... paired an old trick with a new scent (vanilla or raspberry) smell command ... she worked very excitedly at the "Box Search" game where 8 boxes are scattered about the room and she was to find the one with food in it ... Ohhh, Sutter being Sutter though, did jump the fence once to go on one of her "zoomie" excersions ... at 8 yrs she still is a "Wild Child" ... Atta girl Sutter!!!

• Jess & I kayaked with Sutter & Willow, visited Willow's breeder Kara at SunKissed Goldens and had a nice swim in the Wetherby's beautiful pool at Landscape Goldens with Willow's mom "Sophie", sister "Dazzle" and Lyric's mom "Shimmer"
• Willow's sister "Dazzle" came back with us for 2 overnights at "Camp Cedar" ... after an afternoon of swimming in and kayaking on "Cedar Pond", chasing & roughhousing, a scrumptous supper and a good DVD movie, everyone just collapsed into their beds (2 and 4 footed) for the night!
• we took Sutter to her Thursday morning Agility class and I think she was showing off for Jess and the pups 'cuz she was great! So those are the updates on doings at Golden Embers, Camp Cedar & Cedar Pond ... Jess has gone home and Dazzle goes home this evening before work ...
  so until the next time...

THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE FUN IN THE SUN ;o)