Touching base
I need more time in the week, maybe another day would be nice. I think it's the agility gods looking out for me, that I've had a hard time finding a local place to have a weekend workshop. So, I've had a lot of weekends off, but not fully by choice, but it's probably good that I take the time off, because well, I teach a lot these days. Taking ridiculous amounts of pictures, love the camera, fascinated by what can be captured with it. Most of the pictures are at the beach, because the trails are depressing. We need rain, lots of it and what should be green and starting to bloom is brown. The beach is a place to forget how dry everything is. On our freeways are signs that used to tell how many minutes to the next interchange, but now say "SEVERE DROUGHT: Conserve Water".
The dogs are awesome! I am in one of those moments that time could freeze and I'd be happy as things are forever. Starlet is my sweet, predictable senior, happy and mobile. Every now and then she'll get herself into a situation that she needs help getting out of, but she hangs on our hours long walks and seems to dig the lifestyle. Vic is my right-hand boy, such a good boy. Okay, he's eating upstairs these days, so everyone can have relaxed meals, but he is just so good, so easy. Rich is all potential and newness. He's the pushiest dog I've had since Max. He really does remind me so much of Max, most notably in how he inclusive he is with all the people in my life. Vic is very much MY dog and really only likes a handful of people, Rich likes LOTS of people, still prefers me, but definitely better at making other folks feel appreciated than Vic. And something else very Max-like about Rich...
I'm loving the light showing schedule I'm doing with Vic. There were 4 weekends of local USDAA in a row down here, but we went north for the first weekend and then hit the last show of the 4. Dear lord does Stone Pony have great footing. REALLY great footing, like a putting green. Vic was awesome. Clean in everything. I only filmed the MC classes, which were fun courses by Marty Gadsby. Looking forward to running under him again at the SW Regional.
In the theme of less showing, I've taken AKC Nat'ls off my goal list. I did the math and to get through Novice to qualified would take 20 3 day shows. 60 days of showing, bleh, no thanks. I like that I can qualify for Cynosports in 2 trials and spend the rest of the year training and preparing. :-)
Rich is coming along. Still struggles making good choices with jumps when he has momentum, but getting better. The running dogwalk is basically done for what I want it for. We're learning our weaves, when those look understood, we'll tackle the frame and then add a second command to the dogwalk. We head up to see Nancy at the beginning of March. Good for me with both the boys. The only place I work on sequencing with Vic is up there and I LOVE having someone to help guide me with Rich.
Here's some extreme baby dog action from last week.
And some pictures:
Remember Kristi's puppy Keg? Yeah, he's almost 7 months now and still Rich's BFF. :-)
We did go to the Shores yesterday, so brown, but the dogs didn't care.
And today, we headed back to the beach. We've had some extreme tides lately, which have brought more rocks than usual to the beach. Still can't complain, I was in the water late this afternoon and not cold, I guess if we're going to run out of water and burn to the ground, at least we can have good beach weather.
The dogs are awesome! I am in one of those moments that time could freeze and I'd be happy as things are forever. Starlet is my sweet, predictable senior, happy and mobile. Every now and then she'll get herself into a situation that she needs help getting out of, but she hangs on our hours long walks and seems to dig the lifestyle. Vic is my right-hand boy, such a good boy. Okay, he's eating upstairs these days, so everyone can have relaxed meals, but he is just so good, so easy. Rich is all potential and newness. He's the pushiest dog I've had since Max. He really does remind me so much of Max, most notably in how he inclusive he is with all the people in my life. Vic is very much MY dog and really only likes a handful of people, Rich likes LOTS of people, still prefers me, but definitely better at making other folks feel appreciated than Vic. And something else very Max-like about Rich...
I'm loving the light showing schedule I'm doing with Vic. There were 4 weekends of local USDAA in a row down here, but we went north for the first weekend and then hit the last show of the 4. Dear lord does Stone Pony have great footing. REALLY great footing, like a putting green. Vic was awesome. Clean in everything. I only filmed the MC classes, which were fun courses by Marty Gadsby. Looking forward to running under him again at the SW Regional.
Click to viewIn the theme of less showing, I've taken AKC Nat'ls off my goal list. I did the math and to get through Novice to qualified would take 20 3 day shows. 60 days of showing, bleh, no thanks. I like that I can qualify for Cynosports in 2 trials and spend the rest of the year training and preparing. :-)
Rich is coming along. Still struggles making good choices with jumps when he has momentum, but getting better. The running dogwalk is basically done for what I want it for. We're learning our weaves, when those look understood, we'll tackle the frame and then add a second command to the dogwalk. We head up to see Nancy at the beginning of March. Good for me with both the boys. The only place I work on sequencing with Vic is up there and I LOVE having someone to help guide me with Rich.
Here's some extreme baby dog action from last week.
And some pictures:
Remember Kristi's puppy Keg? Yeah, he's almost 7 months now and still Rich's BFF. :-)
We did go to the Shores yesterday, so brown, but the dogs didn't care.
And today, we headed back to the beach. We've had some extreme tides lately, which have brought more rocks than usual to the beach. Still can't complain, I was in the water late this afternoon and not cold, I guess if we're going to run out of water and burn to the ground, at least we can have good beach weather.