11/28/2025
As we prepared to head to Agribition this week, I was a little bit in awe thinking about how I am getting to live my childhood dream every day. I remember going to Agribition as a little girl and just loving all things agriculture there. Sure, I was raised on a farm but never dreamed I would get the opportunity to actually put my feet on the dirt of the arena in the Brandt Centre. I’m constantly thankful that God has allowed me to live and work doing things I only dreamed of as a child. Each year I’ve entered Agribition, I feel like I’ve won just being there. It’s one of my favourite trials and it’s a great opportunity for those of us that rely on these four-footed partners for our every day work to bring them to town and showcase them. I’m so thankful to the committees and volunteers that work so hard, sponsors that allow these things to go ahead and to Agribition as a whole for putting in the tremendous effort to educate the public and give farmers and ranchers a chance to head to Regina and get together and have some fun, challenge ourselves and enjoy each other’s company. So HUGE thank you to all involved with organizing. Thank you also to Jack Regier for judging, Art Unsworth for announcing and their whole crew timing, scribing, etc. I know from experience that these things don’t just happen on their own.
We had a fairly good week in Regina. Scott and Gus were putting some respectable runs together in the sheep trial but Gus came up lame at the end of his semi-finals run and Scott retired. He seems better a couple days later and I’m sure he will be fine. Grace and I timed out on our first run and got a pen in the semi final but our cumulative time wasn’t going to be fast enough to advance with. Congratulations to Jeff DeMarni who did a great job, winning the sheep trial with T-Mack.
Scott scratched Gus the next day for the cattle trial. Grace and I ended up second in the long go and everything lined up just right in the short go for us to be the fastest so we got to take home the buckle. Second place was my good friend Pam Gonnet, whom I was also cheering for but at the end of the day the clock decides. There are so many great dogs and handlers now that it is truly anyone’s game. All you can do is prepare and hope for an opportunity. Grace and I are humbled and thankful an opportunity came for us yesterday and it reminded me of one my favorite verses. To me it’s a reminder that we are not in control and the more we let go and rest in Gods promises the better off we will be. Not in the outcome of dog trials, those are just for our fun and to sharpen our skills here on earth. But in the bigger picture of life and eternity, where our focus needs to be.
“And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
