Sweet River Studios

River and I participated in a barn hunt trial at Dogwood Agility in Ostrander, Ohio over the weekend. This was our first trial at the Senior level. River has to find 4 rats and complete the tunnel and climb requirements within 3 minute 30 seconds. We had a great time but only qualified in one run with a time of 2:09 which also got us first place. Another dog had a time of 2:03 and got High in Class but we were the only 2 dogs to qualify. Most of the time teams run out of time. Some dogs, like mine, alert very subtly and its pretty hard to figure out if they've found a rat or not. Even though we didn't qualify on most of the runs, we still enjoyed our weekend and it was great practice. It's a lot of work holding a barn hunt trial and we greatly appreciate all the people who volunteer to make each hunt run smoothly.

River and I are participating in a fall CWAGS scent league held at Anything Goes for Dogs in Marysville held in September and October. Our September trial went fairly well. The first evening, she was way too excited to search during our Level 1. She mostly just ran around and alerted to 2 boxes no where near the scent. During a level 3 search she did a perfect alert but it wasn't there and when I told her "no" she bounded 3 times across the room and tackled a small object and looked at me like, "I was just teasing it's right here!", which it was. So she was quite playful that evening. We wound up with 1 Q at Level 1 and 2 at Level 3, which she really made me work for. The second evening of scent league, we were doing Levels 1 and 3 again. River qualified in each round earning her Level 1 ACE Title! It's a small dog paw medal on a lanyard of black with hearts and stars. She was pretty calm. So calm in fact that she seemed pretty bored with the whole t...

I haven't posted about any recipes at all this year or if I have they've been few and far between. I guess over the hot summer I'm just not cooking all that much or at least not making anything post worthy. But today is different my friends. Today is about apple cobbler. My parents, especially my dad, likes pie and don't get me wrong I love pie too but I don't like making crust. My parents have that mastered but I don't make it often enough and I struggle. Besides, I don't like rolling out the dough either. So, I tend to gravitate more towards the cobbler dough. I use my Cuisinart, pulse, pulse, pulse and sprinkle it over fruit. Now, that's easy. You can use whatever apples you have on hand. You can use all Jonathan, all Winesap or mix them. Just don't use a soft apple like a Golden Delicious. You'll wind up with mostly mush but feel free to add them into another apple. Today, I had Jonagolds and Golden Delicious. I also had about 12 cups of ...