Welcome to all

I have been planning to start a blog about our life and livelihood for several years now. Sorry for me that it has taken so long.

A little about us. My husbands family has owned the land our farm is on since 1810. I can't imagine living anywhere else, though I was not born in Tennessee.

In the early 1990's I really wanted out of the corporate world, and wanted to go back into training dogs. So, I started a game plan that included becoming a certified positive dog trainer, and I started researching kennels and kenneling.

I guess the best way to handle this blog is to work forward from the starting point.

A. I hated the corporate world.

B. I still had to eat.

C. I was pretty sure even back then that being one of the "boomers", I was never going to get to
retire and kick back.

D. This brings me to the big hurdle, what was I going to do that would be able to keep us eating and a roof over our heads.

E. I won't go into just how it came about that it would be a boarding kennel, but suffice it to say that was the direction I headed in.

F. Time for research, writing a business plan, planning the facility, building the facility, writing the operations plan, and learning everything I could about dogs and kenneling. I spent over three years in this phase.

G. Breaking ground on the boarding kennel facility, this was June of 1997.