Two flyball weekends in a row make for a tired Dawn, that's for sure! The pups were nice and tired as well, which is always a good thing.
Freddie ran ok on Sunday. I'm not sure what was up with him but for the last race of the day (and the last race with WW) he dropped the ball before the line - twice I think. It could be that he was just really tired due to racing the weekend before, the extremely hot weather and the number of races there was over the weekend. Everyone looks forward to a lot of racing but doing it is another thing completely!
Tweak lost her little mind in the middle of the day Sunday. She crossed over a couple of times and was pulled immediately. Yeah, that's not acceptable at all. She realized that she was racing this weekend as well. She stopped on her way up the lane a couple of times during warm ups to wonder where the dog in the other lane was. I'm glad that she's getting it, she's starting to understand the game.
Her return to me is killer so now I have to work on her go out since it's not nearly as strong. It seems I'm always training, training, training with her! Her best time this weekend was a 4.0something. That's 2 full seconds faster than Freddie. Michelle's Grit ran a 3.7 which takes the pressure off of me to have a sub 3.8 dog. :D I can say that I'm really happy with that!
This coming weekend I have a disc competition in Wrentham. I'm looking forward to it because I've been so immersed in flyball lately that this will change it up a bit. I think they're doing toss & fetch and freestyle at this one so I'll have to try my hardest not to forget my routine yet again. I bought a vaulting vest from Kerrie this past weekend so now I can start training her for back vaults and not worry about being scarred for life. :p Her and I need to practice *sometime* this week!
I have 3 rescues in foster right now - Kona, a 5 yo b/t neutered Min Pin that has some sort of allergy thing going on I think; Pedro, a 2 yo stag red neutered Min Pin that thinks he's king of the world and needs to come down a few notches; and Reco, a 6 month old stag red neutered Min Pin that just wants to play. There's a little bit of training that needs to happen first as at least 2 of them would snap at you without blinking if you tried to pick them up without warning. I'm soooo glad I don't have school right now on top of everything else!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
omg I stink...
I love flyball. :) But boy can it make you stink!
Freddie and Tweak are doing well - I'm happy with each of their performances. Fingers crossed they do it again tomorrow!
For the first time ever, I saw lightning bugs in my yard! I went outside to find Neutron since he wasn't coming in when I called him. He was in the back left corner just standing there. I noticed a glint of light and thought there was a critter in the greenery but the longer I looked the more I saw them. How cool is that? I feel all country like now. :)
Literally, it's time for sleep.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Right.
My last post was titled "Back to Normal...?" and boy did I hit the nail on the head with that one. I have been so busy I barely know whether I'm coming or going. I guess that's as back to normal as I get. :p Wednesday night I picked up my friend's dog so I could watch him while they went to visit family in Kentucky & Ohio. I think I got home around 10:00 or so.
Last night I spent a couple of hours at the MSPCA picking up a few rescues. I was supposed to pick up 2, they actually had 4 and I only came home with 3. A good example of compromising, even if it is with myself!
I definitely have a full house and will probably want to rip my hair out in just a couple of days. It's been a while since I've had a foster tho' so I should be fine for a week or two. So far they seem to be settling in pretty well.
I need to get another crate though, I can't believe that I've run out of crates but I have. I have one super large one in the car and Tweak's travel crate. I'll use both of those for the crating area at the tourney this weekend and will have to load them every night so they have something to travel in. Plus, one of the rescues is in a much smaller than I'd like size. It'll work for a day or two but no longer than that.
The pool is green from my time away and I haven't had time to hit the pool store for chemicals so it will continue to be green until next week. The water temperature is lovely and I'm sure I'll be wishing it wasn't green so I could swim this week/weekend during my down time. (ha! what down time?) I'm hoping I'll be able to get there today but we'll see. Maybe I can hit the store before I head down to CT.
Speaking of which, I'll be in CT and then heading over to Foxboro to help set up for the tourney. I think I'll bring the catalogs with me to CT so I can fold them. I hate driving in CT. :(
I think I'll be able to breathe again next week. That should be fine, right? ;)
D
Last night I spent a couple of hours at the MSPCA picking up a few rescues. I was supposed to pick up 2, they actually had 4 and I only came home with 3. A good example of compromising, even if it is with myself!
I definitely have a full house and will probably want to rip my hair out in just a couple of days. It's been a while since I've had a foster tho' so I should be fine for a week or two. So far they seem to be settling in pretty well.
I need to get another crate though, I can't believe that I've run out of crates but I have. I have one super large one in the car and Tweak's travel crate. I'll use both of those for the crating area at the tourney this weekend and will have to load them every night so they have something to travel in. Plus, one of the rescues is in a much smaller than I'd like size. It'll work for a day or two but no longer than that.
The pool is green from my time away and I haven't had time to hit the pool store for chemicals so it will continue to be green until next week. The water temperature is lovely and I'm sure I'll be wishing it wasn't green so I could swim this week/weekend during my down time. (ha! what down time?) I'm hoping I'll be able to get there today but we'll see. Maybe I can hit the store before I head down to CT.
Speaking of which, I'll be in CT and then heading over to Foxboro to help set up for the tourney. I think I'll bring the catalogs with me to CT so I can fold them. I hate driving in CT. :(
I think I'll be able to breathe again next week. That should be fine, right? ;)
D
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Back to normal... ?
At least our location is back to normal. We got home Monday night and the kids & I just crashed. I tried going through all of the hundreds of emails I had but was unsuccessful. I did, however, manage to unpack the car.
Yesterday was spent going through the hundreds of work emails I had accumulated. I'm still not 100% sure what's going on but I'm getting there. I have work today, pick up rescues tonight, work tomorrow and will be traveling on Friday. Considering the majority of today will be spent in meetings (I have 6 of them), I highly doubt today will be one of those productive type of days.
The tournament was good! Our Open team took 1st place in it's division so I have another ribbon to hang up (eventually). He's pretty solid that dog o' mine, and a really good boy. :) I think we got between 600 - 700 points for the weekend too - well worth the trip.
Tweak ran a few heats in her first tournament and I didn't even throw up! We were warming her up and Michelle just tossed me in the race so I didn't have time to think about what was actually happening. She did really, really well and I couldn't be happier! I think someone told me there was a time of 4.0 something but I either don't remember or noone got the full time.
I do know that she liked it!! She was jumping up and down, raring to go on Sunday while I was holding her waiting to run. She's a full 2 seconds faster than Freddie. Wow. In a sport where the time is counted to the thousandths of a second, that's a lot!
That does not, in any way, diminish my little man's accomplishments!! He's a very cool dog and will continue to be very cool and somewhat unique in flyball. :)
There's so much more to write but I've run out of time!
D
Yesterday was spent going through the hundreds of work emails I had accumulated. I'm still not 100% sure what's going on but I'm getting there. I have work today, pick up rescues tonight, work tomorrow and will be traveling on Friday. Considering the majority of today will be spent in meetings (I have 6 of them), I highly doubt today will be one of those productive type of days.
The tournament was good! Our Open team took 1st place in it's division so I have another ribbon to hang up (eventually). He's pretty solid that dog o' mine, and a really good boy. :) I think we got between 600 - 700 points for the weekend too - well worth the trip.
Tweak ran a few heats in her first tournament and I didn't even throw up! We were warming her up and Michelle just tossed me in the race so I didn't have time to think about what was actually happening. She did really, really well and I couldn't be happier! I think someone told me there was a time of 4.0 something but I either don't remember or noone got the full time.
I do know that she liked it!! She was jumping up and down, raring to go on Sunday while I was holding her waiting to run. She's a full 2 seconds faster than Freddie. Wow. In a sport where the time is counted to the thousandths of a second, that's a lot!
That does not, in any way, diminish my little man's accomplishments!! He's a very cool dog and will continue to be very cool and somewhat unique in flyball. :)
There's so much more to write but I've run out of time!
D
Thursday, July 10, 2008
almost there...
We had to take the scenic route because somebody needed to see Niagra Falls.. :/
Through no fault of our own (And I mean Jo'S or my own), we have been delayed by more than an hour. SIGH!
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