A great Agility Day

I thought this day started off to be a good day, spent half an hour writing up a really interested (i thought) blog, and the @#$% thing shut down on me… and as much as i love the “window live writer”, it doesn’t save itself automatically , so here we go again…

Denise and I had a great agility weekend.. left Merritt about 2 pm on Friday… took her little ‘Pip’ over to Christina (our groomer who just moved over to Kelowna), had a very nice Chinese dinner and head out to the camping spot next to the arena.. a nice quiet spot, other than the coyote howling and the pheasant calling in the wee hours of the morning.. and our little ‘Jesse’ thinks she is a watch dog and she has to bark..so we had a terrible night sleep… and were worn out on Saturday, plus it was hot…Jesse and I did okay, we ran our ‘Standard’ course..which consists of jumps, tunnels, chutes, A frames and a dog walk…(about 18 obstacles) to ‘Qualify’, or ‘Q’, you both have to run the course with no mistakes, and with-in a set time frame… First run, we ran clean and with-in the time.. I was delighted as i have been struggling with this part for a year now…Denise didn’t do as well, as the heat really bothers Pip..(he is Jet Black)..at day’s end we went looking for a camp ground..found one, was a little tough but clean, we were able to shower, which was the best part…  Sunday we went to a 2nd trial.. right in the park by the lake in Kelowna… beautiful park, so we parked under some lovely Maple trees.. so stayed in the shade all day… Denise did better on Sunday, and ‘Q’ in one of the games, as did Jesse and i… ours was ‘Jumpers’… it is a series of jumps and tunnels, and you have a set time to run the course… which in this case was 48 seconds..again there were about 18 obstacles.. and we ran the course in 46.35 seconds, so for those of you who know me.. that was a grand run.. this is “Jesse” coming thru the tunnel.. don’t ya love the grin.. this is the finished Chicken house from 2 angles, pretty fancy for a chicken house.. there are two inside pictures.. this side is for the meat birds and laying hen chicks and the other is for the turkeys, can’t believe it is all ready to go and the chicks won’t be here for 10 days… that man deserves a medal.. these are two 45 gallon barrels of manure tea… can’t wait till they start to stink

this is Jackson.. his feelings have been hurt lately.. not getting the attention he used too.. this picture is of  my currant bushes,(about half of them) mostly black, with about 2 or 3 bushes of red..

Levi and I are off to agility classes tonight.. sure glad we don’t do much in the beginners class… he was sure glad to see me last night.. you would have thought i had been gone for a month instead of 2 days… We are off again on Friday to a 2 day trial in Kamloops, on the road to ‘SunPeaks’… I have a friend who lives up there, so i called her this morning and begged a shower for Saturday night, and she very kindly said we could…

The Fall retreat is FULL already… seems to get full faster every year.. i am sure there will be some cancellation as there usually is… oophs… better go, it is our coffee time.. i go out and spend a half an hour with that man of mine… have a great day…