December 31, 2009 - UPDATE After many months of searching and two months of trying to get everything in line.  We closed on our new house today:) We are now the proud owner of a thirty year mortgage that comes with a 10 acres farmstead, 40 x 60 pole barn, detached garage, and a 2400 square foot house. We are now 3.5 miles from the I-29 Buxton Exit # 118.  So we are now 20 minutes from Grand Forks and 40 minutes from Fargo. Eclps dogs will be very busy this weekend:) November 15, 2009 - UPDATE Shock, Ace and Aron went to the Fargo Moorhead Kennel Club show to finish up some Rally titles.  We had a wonderful weekend. Shock finished his Rally Advanced title and earned a leg towards his Rally Excellent title.  He is now Fox Hat Shock CGC RA HTADIIs HTADIIIs (HIT) Ace finished his Rally Excellent title this weekend with two 4th places.  He is now Eclps Ace RE HTADIs Aron had a rough start on Saturday but turned around on Sunday and earned another leg towards his Rally Advanced title.  He now only needs one. November 1, 2009 - UPDATE Shock, Ace and Aron went to Bloomington Obedience Training Center (BOTC) to finish up some Rally Obedience titles and possibly finish Ace's Obedience title and I couldn't have been prouder of our boys:) Ace finished his Rally Advanced title and is now Eclps Ace HTADIs RA and earned a leg towards his Rally Excellent title:) Aron finished his Rally Novice title and is now  Eclps Aron JHD RN and earned a leg towards his Rally Advanced title. Shock earned two legs towards his Rally Advanced title this weekend.  What a great boy:) October 12, 2009 - UPDATE Tara and Shock welcomed our 2nd litter of Eclps puppies to our home on Saturday 10/10/2009.  We welcomed 3 females and 2 males.  Females are classic black/white, classic red/white, one mostly white black/white.  Males are classic black white and classic red / white.  Pictures are on the Tara x Shock 2009 litter page.  Mom and puppies are all doing great.  This will be a Christmas theme named litter.  So we have Holly, Eve, Minnie (the only non-Christmas name), Chris, and Joe. September 26, 2009 - UPDATE We had an awesome weekend at the 4U Farm AHBA Trial this weekend.  I took up Shock, Tara, Ace, Annie and Aron to finish their titles they started last time.  We had everyone qualify:) So let me introduce the newest titles on the Eclps dogs: Fox Hat Shock CGC RN HTADIIs HTADIIIs (HIT) (he went High in Trial for both legs) V Ris'N Sun Tara CGC PT RE NAJ HTADIs HTADIIId Eclps Ann RN HTADIs Eclps Ace RN HTADIs Eclps Aron JHD So we now have herding titles on all of our stockdogs and are now working on AHBA HTCH points with Tara and Shock.  YEA:) September 13, 2009 - UPDATE We had a great weekend at 4U Farm in Winnepeg, MB.  This was a wonderfully run AHBA trial under Judge Shelley Fritzke.  I took Shock for HTADIIIs, Tara for HTADIs & HTADIIId, Ace for HTADIs, Annie for HTADIs, and Aron for JHD.  Well everyone qualified with flying colors:)  Shock not only earned his first HTADIIIs leg with a first place he also went High in Trial for the day and took home a beautiful stock stick.  What a great run.  Tara finished her HTADIs title with a 4th place and by doing that earned her Versatility title under the Border Collie Society of America.  She is now V Ris'nSun Tara CGC PT RE NAJ HTADIs. This wasn't enough for Tara so she took a 3rd place HTADIIId leg too.  Ace also earned his first leg towards his HTADIs title.  Annie earned a leg towards her HTADIs.  For Aron's first time competing on livestock he went for his first leg towards his JHD title. We had a wonderful weekend, met new friends, caught up with some others and just plain had fun. July 19, 2009 - UPDATE We have been having a rough year when it comes to our shows, but maybe it has finally turned around:) At the Red River North Dog Obedience Club shows, Ace started his Rally Advanced title with a 3rd place 97 under Judge Janice Leach on Saturday and an awesome 1st place 100 under Judge Susan Emerson on Sunday.  What a wonderful run Sunday was:)  It was that perfect run you just dream about:)  On Friday he blew me off in the ring, but turned around after that.  Annie started and finished her Rally Novice title with impressive scores of 97 & 99 under Judge Janice Leach and 80 under Judge Susan Emerson. Annie is now: Eclps Ann RN Way to go Eclps dogs:) May 19, 2009 - UPDATE Our first weekend back in NADAC agility was very fun:)  I entered Shock to see what he could do and he stayed with me and tried his best - with some training he should do a lot better.  This was Annie's first weekend out in agility and she ran clean, but needs to gain some confidence to run faster.  She didn't qualify since she went over course time.  But all in all she did rather well.  Ace pulled a 2nd place qualifying score on Sunday for his first NJC leg.  Tucker qualified both days to earn his NJC title.  He is now: Wagners Friar Tucker CGC NCC NJC TN-N RE OAJ NJP So we are very proud of our Eclps dogs.  It was so much fun to be back in NADAC agility so look for us doing more trials as we can:) March 23, 2009 - UPDATE We had a wonderful weekend back in agility at Fargo.  I took Ace and Tucker down for Jumpers.  This was the first time out for Ace in competition Agility and he just learned his weaves this month.  Keeping that in mind - he made only a few mistakes and qualified with a 2nd place Q on Sunday:)  Tucker was blowing me off in Open Jumpers Preferred both Friday and Saturday.  So I was assertive on Sunday and he qualified with a 3rd place Q:)  So all in all not a bad weekend for the Eclps dogs:) I think we are going to try NADAC for a while with Tucker, Shock, Ace and Annie heading out in May.  So watch for us then:) January 6, 2009 - UPDATE This weekend was full of ups and downs for the Eclps dogs.  Shock, Aron and Ace went to LOL with me and Jay stayed home with a very sick Greta. LOL went awesome: Shock earned his Rally Novice Title on Saturday  is now Fox Hat Shock CGC HTADIIs RN Ace (my home bred boy:) earned his Rally Novice title on Saturday and his first CD leg on Sunday:)  - Eclps Ace RN Aron came springing 6 feet in the air from his crate on Saturday morning and didn't stop until he did three laps at full speed around the yard on Monday night and almost took Jay down - so with many laughs from the Judge, Michelle and me - he was pulled on Saturday.  Maybe in another year he may be ready again:) At home - I left Jay with a very sick Greta - she injured her back a couple of months ago and never really recovered.  She stopped eating and drinking and by Monday with a heavy heart Jay brought Greta to our vet to be PTS.  She is finally pain free and is running with my first dog Cria, many Guinea Pigs whom she loved to sleep with, the Rat pack who she thought were just plain strange, and our first daughter Natty.  Greta was my first agility dog and soon after coming to live with Jay and I glued her self to him and became his fun match dog and a beloved friend.  She always greeted us with a sock and made laundry day interesting.  I have found her stash of socks in the couch, behind beds, in the curtains (I never did figure that one out:)  She could climb anything - washing machine, the fridge, baby gates no matter how tall and was always happy:)  She is missed terribly right now.