The Goldens

Teka and Blitz were busy plotting against His Excellency!
Blitz loved the woods.
“Hey lazy dog, you’re sleeping on my sketchbook!”
Yes I know it’s about hauling logs Blitz, but now you’re just showing off.
Blitz spots for me. She has seen this all before.
On the road home and Blitz is dreaming of ducks.
Refreshing. Nellie.
She loves playing with her buddy Sailor.
Phanny joined us for some pre-season scouting.
Blitz steal a stick from her mom.
Teka can’t wait for her turn. She stakes out my truck.
Teka with the wind in her face.
Ponderosa burn fire salvage. Santee.
Sailor thinks Phanny should shake somewhere else.
Blitz and Teka came too. There were lots of dogs in attendance.
Nellie
Nellie loves her sticks.
The morning ritual, ” Hey I need some attention here!” Nellie.
Divya’s portrait of Blaze and Hunter.
Bliss and Tasha in the Sierra.
Just hanging out.
Nellie In Watercolor
Redtail’s Nitro Nellie just being “Boopie”
Blitz finds a fish for me. “Hey Blitz that one is dead.”
Hawk and Blitz were best buddies.
Doug and Teka.
Bliss is helping with the log quality control. She offer to take care of the tiny log and left me the big ones.
Teka and her person, Doug.
A soft seat after a busy day feels so good. Blitz
On the Trinity River.
Hunter and Blaze in a sea of Ponderosa pine tree. Blitz got the day off so instead a photo of Hunter, Blitz’s dad, and Aunty Blaze.
Water Break, Nellie and Blitz.
Tasha and Bliss stop for a drink.
You had to know this would happen.
Bliss, feeling much better after a swim.
Blitz with her bag.
Bliss at the Gallatin River, Montana. The Gallatin River is a tributary of the Missouri River.
That’s not a flower either, but it is wild.
Feel the love.
Tasha and Bliss at Sly Park Reservoir.
The forester’s dog and the loggers dog.
“A Forester and his Dog”‘ pen and ink.
The big stick contest. Blitz and Nellie
Nellie
Nellie and Blitz.
The Doctor Bob released her to come back to camp for our last night.
Bliss at Dog Creek.
It must have hurt to be that cute. Makes me kind of misty.
After a security sweep by Blitz it was determined that this log deck was clear of ferocious jack rabbits.
Whoop whoop
February 19, 2006
Me: “Well, what do you think?” Bliss: “Sniff, sniff.”
Teka Playing in the snow
Once she was back home again she made the best of it.
This was the site of the Little Giant Mill log deck.
Nellie.
It just doesn’t seem right to not end this post with a picture of Blitz. She’s still here in spirit.
Squirrels tremble in her presence!
Phanny decide the desert was good place to run and frolic!
Blitz, the red dog!
May 5, 2001
Well this isn’t going well.
Blitz loves a shaded fuelbreak. So many sticks, so little time.
She took to the water right away.
When we got home she had to go back into the hospital.
Blitz’s last hunt with us.
Pine seedlings in a burn restoration. That’s me with Blaze and Hunter in 2006.
“Kinta you are not the photo editor!”
Blitz giving her best regal pose.
Blitz gets a “little” love. 🙂
Mary and Tom dog visiting Nellie at the Vet’s office. She was one sick pup, but it sure perked her up seeing us.
Phanny, Bliss, and Tasha decided Mary makes for good playground equipment.
Bliss says to beware of predators hiding along the riverbank!
This looks like trouble, Bliss and Phanny!
Nellie and Blitz
Tasha enjoys a romp in the Nevada desert. lots of room to run.
Teka stares forlornly at a beautiful pair of Canada geese.
Blitz has a lively pheasant.
Blitz
The pack!
Flying high.
A happy girl. Blaze and Hunter.
The consumate stick dog.
My sons and Nellie.
Blitz the happy dog.
Thanks Kinta! I’m glad you needed to go potty this morning.
“Is that a grouse I see?”
The golden streak! Teka.
And hunting buddies
The race is on! Teka.
Bliss, Tasha and Sailor in Montana.
“Can I get out of the truck please.”
Meet Skidder, and no he’s not my dog. He belongs to the logging crew I was visiting. Yes, I gave him back.
She was still that little puppy at heart.
Looking good.
Being a forester’s dog is exhausting.
My oldest son, Chris with his girl Nellie. This was her last pheasant season.
Blitz on a water retrieve.
Blitz decided she would just wait in the truck during. She figured the bear would be full after a yummy forester meal.
Blitz
From left to right, Tasha, Phanny, Bliss and Sailor.
Bliss loves to play and Tasha isn’t immune.
Blitz is happiest while doing her work.
Big pine in the Coast Range.
Teka and Blitz train for the hunt tests.
Sailor and Kinta find this whole adventure thing quite exhausting.
Blitz joyfully returns with a bird.
It’s a race.
Blitz chills after an exhausting day of events. “Don’t get up Blitz, but I need to get into the refrigerator!”
Teka was born to hunt birds.
Blitz likes a good ride along, but don’t take her seat!
Mary and Blitz take a stroll on the beach.
Hunter motto was “It’s good to be Hunter!”
Hunter and the big pine.
Time for the boys to watch from afar.
Bliss: “Rarr Rarr Ruff!!!” Me: “Everyone’s a critic. Maybe next time I’ll let the sleeping dog lie.”
Bliss
We didn’t know it yet, but Bliss was one sick puppy. She had chewed a toxic mushroom in the morning. In the afternoon we knew something was wrong and headed for the vet.
Hawk during his last pheasant season.
Bliss, Sailor and Tasha the three amigos.
Nellie in her youth at Iron Canyon Reservoir.
Don’t be deceived by this angelic face. This puppy is wild little rascal.
I had a companion on this day. Tessa, our friends dog got to be a forester’s dog for a day.
Bliss
Phanny swimming!
Me and Blitz.
Hawk
It seems Blitz is not impressed. 😦
Mixing the canine color palette. Teka and Blitz with their lab friends.
Sunset from our campsite in Idaho on the second night.
There’s gold under that rainbow.
Blitz says, “Can’t trust em’, they remind me of cats!”
At a stop near Rye Patch Reservoir to stretch their legs, Sailor wanted to explore every smell.
Blitz would prefer to ride up front.
Blitz grazes during a break.
Kinta is the truck dog today, since Blitz had a doctors appointment.
On the Upper Sacramento River.
Catching a nap.
“Don’t you make that face at me Blitz…you are a bad dog!”
Blitz know that she better be rolling in the snow while she still can.
Looking down the hill at our pond with Sailer, Tasha and Bliss.
Blaze impatiently waits for her driver.
Blitz says, her critical period is pheasant season.
Phanny and Bliss playing in the Yellowstone River.
Sailor and Kinta are ready for an adventure.
Blitz loves the snow.
October 23, 2013
August 6, 2006 — April 25, 2014
The girls are loaded up and ready to roll.
Blitz at four months.
Blitz and Teka out in the woods.
Blitz
Blitz and Teka romp in the snow.
Hunter in 2002
Phanny on the run! As usual.
Blitz sits on the same stump in 2014.
This is where we escape. Mary give Blitz a snuggle.
Blitz and Teka on the beach near Brookings.
Blitz and Nellie taking a break for a swim at Lake Prairie
Blitz goes back to what she does best.
Tim, Teka and Blitz.
Bliss one year old.
In the twilight.
“Squirrel, gotta go!”
Nellie and Blitz
With Burney Mountain in the background, Nellie strikes a lovely pose. She is one of my favorite models. Nellie is very co-operative and will work for dog biscuits.

32 thoughts on “The Goldens”

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  3. Oh my gosh!! Every one of these was wonderful! That first picture of Nellie is still a favorite that I’ve seen here. There are five dogs in one picture. Did you really have five dogs at one time? We had four, but only have one left. I pine for more dogs. Blaze and Hunter up close are adorable, I love Blaze on the truck cab, and your artwork is so good. Really enjoyable, Tim.

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  5. I just come from Yvonne who posted a poem for you. Pictures of your dogs are wonderful. I lost two of my dogs recently, Lady was 7 and Fanny who died in January 14. I still have a little fellow of 12 years’ old. I am glad I found your blog

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  7. Your dogs are lovely. They have lovely color!!! In Sweden our Goldens are usually much lighter. It is a nice combination: dogs an watercolors 🙂 Like that!

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    • Thanks you so much. We definitely favor the red golden retrievers. Our dogs are hunting dogs and run in events. Most goldens that come from hunting lines here favor the darker colors, but there are many that are lighter too. We have raised them for many years and enjoy thier company enormously. I can see by your blog that you too enjoy your dogs very very much. 🙂

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  9. Lovely rich red coloured goldies, in UK they are more cream coloured, though we do get some real ‘goldies’ more the working strain as yours appear to be. lovely pictures with each one telling a story.

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  12. Hey Tim,
    LOVE the beautiful pictures 🙂 We would love to know if you and Mary are still breeding… Our 10 year old Red Tail golden, Kona is precious to us and looking to add another someday to our family. Thank you for your time.

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  14. We bought a lighter Golden puppy a few years ago when our daughter first came to live with us out of foster care, but my husband and son are the ones who became obsessed with her. She is such an amazing dog. Yours are gorgeous.

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