May, 2026 Class Newsletter

Your Trainer...(Adapt ,improvise and over come )

Oh boy, do these words ring true to my experiences in herding and in life in general..  I have written some of what it has taken to keep the website going over the years. I can remember the days of the Tandy computers with the floppy disk and very limited hard drive space. I remember Ed Faulk telling me once " they should be careful of what they say  (the computer manufacture ) their computers can do because you will find a way of making the computers do it. Each edition of Windows provided another learning curve and more robust computers. Cameras went from film to digital to cell phones. Pictures, videos and applications to deal with them keep evolving.

All the while going from training and trialing my own dogs, ( Easy, Tess, Choice, Pic and now Sunny ) to establishing herding sites in many communities , now down to one.  Many of my students have gone from student, graduating to trainers with their own locations and herding trial judges. I sometimes in reflection call it the Johnny Apple seed effect. Some have sinse died.

There have been periods of time when the written press and news media have given us their attention, at other times the TV industry have included us in their productions.

All this for 1 man and his dog desiring to share his calling to bring the understanding between man and his domesticated animals, to people without that exposure in their day-to-day life. In the beginning I had no idea how much help it would bring to the depth of the human condition. Today I am in awe at how much personal growth it brings to some people and animals that they become involved with. This is my blessing and I thank God for this calling!

My current approach is to use acupuncture to correct the remaining pains/ disability I am experiencing. Yes, my knee still doesn't like me but we are learning to get along .

May, 2026 Class Newsletter