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#1 ·
Cheers!

Should we all do an update of what we will be working on in the New Year???
 
#63 ·
Hey Lisa, good to see you!
Congratulations on the engagement! Is a day set?
 
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#66 ·
Well I did not want to distract from the training thread...I've just been real busy lately. Training when I can although with our cold weather not as much. No date officially. Africa in June is going to be a big trip so the plan is next year, maybe May. We just want to do a simple destination wedding and get away from all the planning, cost, and hassle!
 
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How fun, congratulations!!! :)


Today we trained after the breed show, did KRD drill then some singles. Slater was rockin and rollin and did great. On the KRD he lined one blind and one-whistled the other two. Cute stuff.
 
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#68 ·
Still no training for us. I hope that by the end of the week we will be mostly done with the in-season girl stuff and they can get back to work!
Saturday I went to the airport and picked up a shipment of Trooper swimmers. Yesterday we did a breeding. So now we will be waiting on tenterhooks for Trooper X Breeze puppies on March 22nd!
 
#72 ·
We almost didn't train yesterday. It finally started to warm up this weekend which brought rain, but then it froze. When I got to our field I watched Scout slide all over the crunchy snow sheet and she had no sense of being careful--running full speed only to find out her brakes were not quite working. Yuck.

I did end up finding an area with less snow so there was reasonable traction. Still the dogs were punching holes in the crunchy, icy snow. They didn't seem to mind so we ran a few marks and blinds. Scout did awesome the first set-up. She did a nice double, a blind off to the side, and even one down the center of the blinds. She didn't pin it like one dog did, but she handled nicely. The second round we did singles and she did swing her head, but did not have trouble finding the marks. Blinds were not as smooth, but we got there.

We have a new training buddy who has pointing labs. I didn't know such things existed. I must confess I really like his dogs. They run very slick and I like the small, sleek package. One of them has a master for the pointing lab club--something that is a combination of marks, blinds and pointing skills. Pretty cool!

Of course he asked me yesterday if I woke up that morning and crimped Scout's hair, lol. One of these days I am just going to go with it! Yes, I get extreme pleasure waking up and crimping my dog's ear and butt hair so she looks purdy for field training where she is running in the icy, snowy mush. Meanwhile, I care nothing about my own hair which is pulled back and tucked under a beanie!

I am so sick of this cold, icy weather though. I am ready for January to end. Yesterday was the first time in weeks that I could see the bottom of my street. I have had a few close calls nearly falling on my a** in the parking lots, and I am tired of my car sliding around. (I guess the silver lining is the small happiness I get driving this thing off road on a pile of snow).
 
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This morning I went out in the empty cow field with Rose to train, she was sliding all over the place and then she started jumping like a donkey or something in that same four legged family. I ended up just letting her do whatever she wanted and brought her back in the more leveled terrain behind our house just so she can burn some energy. Should I say I hate this weather! ;)
 
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