UberPest on December 31st, 2010

Earlier in 2010 I decided to set a goal for myself to walk or bike 400 miles in 2010. This seemed like a completely attainable goal—and it would have [...]

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UberPest on October 1st, 2010

I put together a spreadsheet to help me calculate drop weights for Ranger’s weight pulls. At first it was designed for dogs in his rough weight range and for a specific [...]

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UberPest on September 12th, 2010

My summer has been very busy, so I haven’t had much time to post, nor has there been anything particularly interesting to post about.
The big news is that I just got [...]

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UberPest on August 5th, 2010

The results on how everyone who participated in Weight Pull at Premier are available now.
PPAPBTA Pull Results
You can see that, while he didn’t get a placement, he definitely held his [...]

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UberPest on July 14th, 2010

So, my Premier weekend came in with a bang and went out with one.
As I said in my previous post, Ranger had a really good Thursday–he won the Best of Breed [...]

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UberPest on July 9th, 2010

I’m making a quick post before I head out for the first day of the UKC Premier.
Yesterday I competed with Ranger in the UKC Top Ten invitational. We competed in the [...]

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UberPest on June 23rd, 2010

One of my rainy day activities is to troll craigslist to fill my wishlist. I missed out on a sweet deal on a pull-behind camper trailer last week, but the deal [...]

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UberPest on June 12th, 2010

Okay, so my attempts at a weekly posting have really gone awry over the past month. I got crazy with work and, between the heat and the rain, I just haven’t [...]

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UberPest on May 9th, 2010

WalletPop.com had two of their reporters (Adam Kaufman and his girlfriend, Katie Lorah) go to a bulk food store to stock up on supplies to fill drop boxes on their Pacific [...]

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UberPest on May 9th, 2010

I’ve been stepping up Ranger’s conditioning over the past several weeks. Compared to how he looked a month ago I can see some genuine muscle development. In the past month his [...]

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