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happy thanksgiving

11/28/2013

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Having a combo meal for dinner.  I am making a beef roast with butternut squash!

Pumpkin pie in a cup with pecans will be dessert. Low carb is not boring! I do not miss all the bread and sweet stuff at all! I am thankful for that, too. 

Wherever you're at and whatever you're doing, have a great day and be happy!
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agility attracts all kinds

11/27/2013

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Dog Snobs has an amusing and insightful article: The Types of People That Do Agility. 

Have a humorous look!
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just  a  bit  of  a   s-t-r-e-t-c-h

11/27/2013

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I had been having a lot of pain in my knees. It was an odd pain. On again, off again, mostly on after a lot of activity. I stopped running agility. For the most part, I stopped the daily one-milers with my dogs. Walking on the unstable gravel was painful. 

Knowing that my muscles were tight, I was pretty sure the pain was more related to muscle than to bone. I lost some weight. I tried stretching, which was nothing new, I'd been doing it for years. Then more stretching this summer, from a regimen I found on You Tube. The result was that I really hurt my left knee. Ouch, talk about painful! It even kept me from going to the Michigan field trials. 

Early this month, with a free coupon for a first visit to a chiropractor in town, I went, he twisted my leg around and told me that I should schedule an MRI. I mentioned this to my regular doctor who said forget the MRI, it's very expensive and I don't think you need one, call the fitness center and get in to see an exercise physiologist. So I went to the fitness center and saw the fitness guru who specializes in stretching. I have have had one session with him so far. Tam gave me a 15 minute totally painless stretching routine to do each day until the next time I see him. It is so easy you wouldn't believe it could be so effective. But the pain in my knee has been gone for more than two weeks! 

Tam explained that I had always been stretching the same muscle groups - so actually over stretching them - and said that I needed to also stretch the antagonists of those muscles which I had not been doing. He said that the over-stretched muscles on the back side and the under-stretched muscles on the front side were putting relentless pressure on my knees and no wonder I was having knee pain! I am back to walking every day. A few days ago, I spent more than two hours tromping the woods trying to find a deer. No knee pain! I am posting this for the benefit of someone else who may be having a similar problem. 

Also to say that my doctor is smart and I am THANKFUL for her.
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nice white mess

11/27/2013

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This morning was the second time in less than a week that I woke to toilet paper strung through the bathroom and into the bedroom. The first time, I didn't know if the main culprit was Viljo or Taya; they were both in there. This morning the mystery unraveled. Taya still slept. Viljo was in the bathroom playing snow machine again.
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dachshund scales a giant wall (video)

11/25/2013

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Where there's a will there's a way!
Then watch the video sideways. It gives great perspective of a dachshund moving in tight quarters.
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tasha twofer

11/24/2013

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Tasha got to track two deer last night. The hunters both shot straight and we were able to recover both of the deer. These were two very nice bucks. - Cliff Shrader, LA
Double Congratulations to Cliff and Tasha!
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"odie is a tracking wonder dog"

11/24/2013

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It's 17 hours since the buck was shot. It's 10:45 AM. Odie hits the cold trail. He sniffs here and he sniffs there, just like he always does. Alecia says 'Odie, let's go this way.' After 30 minutes of cold tracking Odie begins pulling his leash harder and harder. Odie then begins barking. Something is getting ready to happen. The buck jumps. He crosses a field, then a highway, then a cotton field, then another highway and into a thicket. Stan, Alecia and Odie catch up with the deer. Angelo is back yonder somewhere. Odie jumps the buck again. The deer is worn out and eventually Stan puts the buck down. Look at Stan and Angelo. This is why it is important to make a good shot the first time. Odie is a tracking wonder dog. There is not a dog any better anywhere in the world.  - Angelo San Fratello, Falling Creek Outfitters, NC
Congratulations to Stan (t-shirt) & Alecia Wenner and  their 9 year old longhaired dachshund Axel Odin von Dorndorf. 

GREAT JOB!
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my father owen nance in oak hill, ohio 1941

11/21/2013

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I have two photos of my father as a boy. This is one of them. Owen Dwight Nance is in the back row, first one on the left! He would have been about 11. I believe it is his brother Richard front row, also first on the left. There were three other brothers and two sisters, all older. I don't know if any of them are also in the picture. The only writing on the back says: "The last year class of Arthur School before it was abandoned about 1941-42. Teacher Mrs. Jennie Cummings." It may have been soon after that that the family moved from Oak Hill, Ohio to Columbus.

 I think of the Little Rascals every time I see this picture! I'm pretty sure their families didn't have much; I'm also fairly certain they weren't complaining about it. Can you imagine a bunch of kids barefoot in school these days? Likewise, imagine what these kids would think about what is happening in schools today! For one thing, if you told them that no one could carry a pocketknife or play with a toy gun, they would think we'd gone crazy! Maybe we have.

I have no photos of my mother before age 19 or 20. Early pics would have been in the 30s and 40s in southern Germany so of course also during WWII. She was raised working on a farm in southern Germany. They didn't own the land, but families from the village worked on the farm to get some of the food it produced. Plus my father was raised on a small farm in southern Ohio. Equals I'm pretty sure my love for the country is genetic.
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outstanding oslo

11/19/2013

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In a previous post, I congratulated Marvelous Mieka and Super Seiko on their accomplishments this weekend in Georgia. It is about time I mention Outstanding Oslo! 

Oslo was called back 2nd and Won the class of 22 Field Champion Dogs on Saturday! 

Oslo was called back 4th and Won the class of 20 Field Champion Dogs on Sunday!

ABS13 FC Audi Oslo von Dorndorf, 9 years old, is owned by Stan Knoll of Mississippi. Devotion between these two being mutual, complete, and pretty well known, I should say that it almost didn't happen. The Stan-and-Oslo-team first took oxygen when baby Oslo's prospective home with a deer hunter in Louisiana fell through. It further developed upon the death of Stan's young bitch Anika. And it was born in a light bulb moment in the shower in Poplarville, Mississippi in 2005. I'm not sure that Stan had dried off yet when he phoned me and said that he wanted Oslo. A couple of months later, Oslo left Ohio for the second time and he wasn't coming back.

Stan phoned this past Sunday evening on the drive home from Georgia. He said he believes that Oslo has moved into the Number Five spot among the top trial competitors on the All-Time list of DCA field trial merit points. Wonderful! But Five, Six, or pick up sticks, the boys from southern Miss have done their little fan club proud!

Congratulations to Stan & Oslo! I didn't actually have much to do with it, but I sure am glad that you two teamed up!
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sisters emma and naomi

11/17/2013

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New photos of two of my brother Mike's five awesome grandkids! Emma is on the left and her sister Naomi on the right. I am guessing that they had just gotten dressed for church this morning. Beautiful girls!
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excellent taya

11/16/2013

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Two of us have similar expressions!
Today in eastern Maryland, Taya's conformation was V rated (rated Excellent) by DTK judge Andreas Tornau from Germany. Herr Tornau evaluated the conformation of 30 dachshunds at the fall zuchtschau of the North American Teckel Club. As some readers know, the DTK (German Dachshund Club) requires an official conformation evaluation of Excellent or Very Good before a dachshund can be approved for breeding. So this was the next step on the path to having puppies from Taya in the spring. I plan for this litter to be dual registered with both the AKC and DTK. 
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details, details

11/15/2013

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There's an interesting little exercise going on on Facebook. If a friend assigns a number to you, you are being requested to list that number of things that people may not know about you. Here is what I wrote and the photo that I posted with it. It has been enjoyable to learn some new things about friends and acquaintances!
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Amy LaDew was the first person to give me a number and it was 5. Wasn't going to participate but I enjoy reading what others write so changed my mind. Here's five things. Or maybe it's 25, I like details.

1. Born in Bavaria, Germany, came to the States the first time when I was six and did not speak English at the start of 1st grade.

2.Went to 3rd and 4th grade in Germany and 5th grade in Italy (pictured, age 11). When I started 9th grade, it was my 8th school. A down side to growing up like that is not only that kids don't really learn to bond, they actually learn not to. An up side is that being a globetrotter by the time you're a teenager is adventurous, exciting, and feels like a great privilege. At least these things were true for me.

3. I grew up with dachshunds and German shepherds. We got our first standard longhair in Germany when I was eight and I have had them ever since. Sometimes someone asks if I will get another breed. I say that I have no desire to. There is nothing I want to do with a dog that I cannot do and do well with the dogs I have!

4. I was a Medical Laboratory Specialist in the US Army for four years and began hiking the Appalachian Trail a month after discharge. Had never backpacked a day in my life before and have never backpacked since! 

5. If you would have told me when I was 30 that I would become both an RN and a Christian, I would have said you were nuts! In my mid 30s I graduated nursing school and also became one of those religious right-wing nut cases. You know, like the idiot extremist Bible thumpers who founded the United States of America, not to mention most of our universities, hospitals, and charity organizations. What I was thinking the morning I walked up the stairs, knelt by my bed, and prayed to God for relationship and forgiveness, I don't know. I only wish I had done it much sooner.
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ochre's first field trial

11/14/2013

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For "throwback Thursday" today on Facebook, Laura posted this very cute photo of Ochre and herself. I believe the photo would have been taken in September 2005 when Ochre was 14 months old and Laura was eight! 

And Laura had already been handling dogs owned by her parents for two years!
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ABS5 FC Annie Ochre von Dorndorf TDX CGC and I winning our very first field trial placement in Addison, Michigan.  - Laura Knoll, MS
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"physician heal thyself"

11/12/2013

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There is a very good, pro-breeder article by Susi on the DogKnobit blog. This is how it begins.
Not long ago, I had a conversation with a couple of women at a pet blogging convention where the majority of attendees tilted in favor of shelter and rescue dogs. Many had come with their own reclaimed dogs, and of them I thought, “Good for you!”  In my estimation, the majority of shelter and rescue workers do God’s work, and the people who take in these dogs are angels. But I've also learned that with the exception of people affiliated with breed clubs, most in the shelter and rescue world are woefully misinformed, if not ignorant about the world of the purebred dog owner and breeder.
This article is not new but it is well written and insightful. Have a look.
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veterans day

11/11/2013

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Thank you to my father Owen who served 20 years in the US Army, my brother Mike who served 22 years in the Navy, my sister Karen 6 years in the Army, and my sister Lisa 4 years in the Navy. 

I was in the Army for 4 years myself. Due to my wallet being stolen at Ft Knox, Kentucky, I do not have a single photo of myself in uniform. It's okay, the memories are enough. Some good, some bad, some funny, some sad, like every other living situation we all experience. 

Writing of sad, the most difficult for me during this time the night of March 27, 1977. I had just returned to Fort Dix, New Jersey from a week at home in Ohio. That night, I pulled CQ of the lab at Walson Army Hospital. We spent the entire night receiving patients flown in to McGuire Air Force Base. (McGuire and Dix were separated only by a fence.) These were people being brought in from the aviation disaster on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Hundreds of people lost their lives in what remains the deadliest plane crash in history. US servicemen were unloading the 'lesser' burned and injured people and flying the most critically injured on to the (renowned) burn unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. 

Tragically, some people who were pulled out alive died enroute to New Jersey. As lab CQ, I held the keys to the morgue, too, and accompanied those people to the basement. One of the victims, still with an IV in her arm, was burned so badly I couldn't tell at first if she was a man or a woman. The smells. The sights. The sounds. The phone calls from families. The news media. That night was incredible - and it was one night, safe in the States and not in a war zone! 

I think many people do not comprehend the sheer amount and weight of responsibility borne by those in our Armed Forces - and often at quite a young age. But thankfully, many of us do. 

I gladly - APPRECIATIVELY - join millions of others in saying to our military, "WE SALUTE YOU!"
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no blood trail no problem for odie

11/9/2013

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Stan Wenner harvested this great 8-pointer however, Odie found it as there was no blood trail for Stan to follow. The 8-pointer came in at 191 lbs.
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2007 photo - after owl passed the SchwhKF test

11/7/2013

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I like seeing "throwback" pics and want to post one of my own. Don't have much time today though, so instead of scanning and posting a much older photograph, I looked for something in my digital files. Don't believe I have ever posted this one anywhere. 

It was taken September 2007 and 3 year old Owl had just passed the DTK (German Dachshund Club) SchwhKF blood track test in Reading, PA. I am holding the markers (articles) that Owl found on the track in the forest. 

Owl is the first, and so far only, USA longhaired dachshund to pass this test. He was also the only one of four dogs to pass the test that day, and he did it on the last track. 

If (ha!) I look like a zombie, it is because I'd worked the evening before, driven all night, and arrived at the hotel meeting place in eastern PA at precisely the start time of 8 am! It proved to be a warm and muggy day and by the time we ran our track, I was beyond much more than hanging onto the tracking line. But Owl had it all very well under control and I basically just went where he went. 

This was fine with Owl; he likes to tell me where to go. 
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bells were ringing

11/3/2013

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Jennifer Fry is a director for Handbells Columbus. It is a talented group of 14 people who play a total of 72 bells. They give performances throughout the year and have played in Europe, too! This evening, Laura Knoll and I attended a practice session. If the bells sound this wonderful in a little upstairs bandroom, I can imagine how awesome the music sounds in a cathedral! Very impressive! 

The exquisite timing and the stamina required for a person to ring multiple bells for an hour was a surprise to me. Some of the bells are downright heavy! Many thanks to Jennifer and the entire group of Handbells Columbus. I enjoyed it!
 
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father and daughter 1 and 2 in st louis

11/3/2013

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Oslo and Seiko were back 1st and 2nd and finished 1st and 2nd in the combined Field Champion class of 18 dachshunds in St Louis. How do you like that!

Oslo is owned by Stan Knoll and Seiko's owner is Tina Knoll. Both were handled today by Stan.

Double congratulations to the Knolls!
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"hey, not so fast"

11/3/2013

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Viljo was not entered in earthdog this time. I am pretty sure he will be next time around! 
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Where do you think you are going with that rat box?  - Viljo
THANKS to Laura Mei-Lin Knoll for taking the photo.
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good showing by taya and viljo in earthdog practice

11/3/2013

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Unfortunately, no additional Senior earthdog legs for Owl or Master legs for Gretel in Dayton. 

The good news is that Taya (entered today only) and Viljo (not entered) both showed excellent instinct in their first practices this weekend!
Many thanks to Laura Knoll for taking these photos!
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nadja acquires master earthdog status

11/2/2013

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DC Nadja v Dorndorf L CG, now ME, is pictured after titling in the Master class at Gem City's earthdog test in Dayton this weekend! She is the first Dorndorf dachshund to earn the Master Earthdog title!

Nadja, age 11.5, is owned by Tina Knoll and was handled by Laura Knoll.

Congratulations to all of you!!!
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wind huffed and puffed and blew the tree down

11/1/2013

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Awesome weather we're having after rain and heavy winds last night! And if I have had a tree that needed to come down, it is multiple blessings that: 

1. The wind did it for me
2. It blew over from ground level
3. It fell directly away from the house
4. My neighbor came over and said he would like to cut it up for his wood stove! 
Taya and Viljo were checking out the downed tree when Viljo saw me and dropped everything. It is the same thing he has been doing in field trials, either "There's Patt!" or "Where's Patt?!" and he comes running. Other than when Ilsa first started, it is not a 'problem' that I am used to having! 

Meanwhile, Taya continued following her nose while simultaneously following me with her eyes. Dogs can be at once so similar to each other and so blatantly dissimilar!
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