Happy Birthday Sweet Cedar

Today has been a extraordinary trip down memory lane as I gleaned through thousands of photos for this blog.
CH "PR" Moonsong Cedar River Touchdown, CGC, WSD was born December 9, 2006.  I went up to Seattle with a friend, Jackie to look at the Moonsong Quarterback litter of puppies. Jackie also owns McKenzie's sister.  Before our visit was over, Jackie committed to a girl she named Zita and I got Cedar.

Cedar at 6 weeks with her football.

When Jackie and I picked up our pups, both pups had pricked ears. We preferred down ears and thought as nurses we could figure out a way to reshape them before the cartilage permanently stiffened. A google search showed taping nickles to the ears to weight them over. Both Cedar and Zita wore their ear adornments for about a week and a half before we tired of looking for nickles throughout the yard.

Cedar grew up into a beautiful Chinook. At 4 1/2 years old she was judged to be the National Champion of Champions.

Cedar was also a wonderful mother to the BrownStone Iditarod litter.

Cedar with her daughter BrownStone Iditarod Koyuk.

Cedar has been a quiet adventurer. Over the years, we have hiked, backpacked, canoed, urban mushed, dog sledded, run around the property...together.

Cedar on her first long hike at 5 months.

For the most part she in on the reserved side, but occasionally she gets down and dirty.

Sweet is the adjective everyone who meets Cedar uses.  Sweet and beautiful. I can't get enough of taking pictures of her. Here are some random ones I came across during my journey through the picture files.

You would not know it, but Cedar has to be bribed to take her picture. Other than the treats that come with it, she is not a fan of posing.

Let the Season Begin - Clean-out In-box

Amazing what you find when you clean-out your in-box. Unfortunately I overlooked BrownStone Cascade Mt. Mazama aka Bramble's birthday photos. 

"How could you?"

Bramble lives with an amazing Canadian family which includes BrownStone Iditarod Takotna aka Muku.

Hi, here's the whole sequence of birthday shots of Bramble and Muku with the cakes they picked out at the doggie bakery.  Muku actually picked them.   When we weren't looking she helped herself to one from the display case so I knew they were tasty.

Deavah 

Bramble at 2

Muku and Bramble 10/17/15 out on their daily run/hike

 Muku and Bramble 10/28/15

Bramble and Muku waiting for the holidays.

Yup, I am only to July with my inbox cleanup.

Let the Season Begin - Card Picture

Last week my nephew JJ brought his family over to experience the joy of skidding rocks across the frozen pond. We had had several days of freezing temperatures. The pond had a couple inches of ice, making for wonderful harmonics.
Icy morning fog left thick hoarfrost in it's wake. Like last year, hoarfrost might be the only "snow" we find for our annual Christmas card photo shoot,  So, as long as they were there to help, we took advantage of Nami's photographic skills.
It quickly became evident that the dogs were not going to cooperate and look toward the camera.

I tried sitting and coaxing with "gee" and "haw" tricks to turn the dogs around.

Trask is looking at the kids and camera but from the comfort of my lap.

The dogs finally posed for a picture with Dave after I put them in a "sit-stay" and moved out of the picture.

Ho-Ho-Ho We have a collage of  fun "out-takes" for our Christmas card this year. 

The kids were afraid of the big dogs when they arrived but Trask soon won their hearts - and any chance of getting a picture without his photobombing.