Trying again

Trouble posting photos makes it hard to blog. Since I seem to be all about photos! LOL!!

OK, I got these to load. Spur's morning exercise, flushing the birds from the farm. This day had geese, ducks and pigeons!

Notice the fog between the geese? That is the one on the left's breath! No kidding!

These are the pigeons. They give him the best run because they don't usually fly away, but fly in circles.

These are the ducks.

Miss Colby doesn't leave the couch any more in the mornings. She just doesn't want her morning walk. The light is too bright? I don't know, but we don't like taking her for a "drag", so we leave her be. She sleeps so soundly. I am sad for her, she really isn't that old for a small dog, but going blind diminished her a lot. It sucks............losing your sight is the worst.

I know, I know!

I am tardy on my posts here. It makes it hard when damn blogger won't load my photos! And when I go away for another weekend. This time to see the parents. Made a WHIRLWIND trip. Saw mom, dad, friends and sis. It meant LOTS of eating and driving, but that duty is done for a while. It was good to see them, everyone actually seems quite good. No major health issues. The new barn at my dad's is pretty and he seems happy. It has a smoke detector. Damn electrician didn't know how to do one that would go off in the house, which seems ridiculous, but he says it is loud enough he is sure he would wake up. Hmmm, OK.

The colors are turning FAST around here and our walks are so pretty. The weather is spectacular!!! The light is horrible for poor Colby and she seems more blind then ever. Totally sucks. It just makes me so sad.

I hope to get this photo loading thing figured out. I complained to blogger, but heard nothing. I don't pay for this site, so what do they care. I need to try to do my blog from my iPad. Data entry is SO not my forte!!!

Trying again

I need to search the app store and see if there are any blog apps so I can update my blog with my iPad. I suspect some of these upload issues have to do with my ancient computer system. I SO badly need a new computer!

Well, it worked for a while, then froze again. This photo below is what we saw last week during one of the cow escapes. This one was in the woods and kind of freaked us out!!! Usually, they are in the open field. By the time we returned she was back inside lying down looking at us like nothing happened. :D

We took down the sail shade so we would get more passive solar in the kitchen. Roscoe was VERY happy! It does change the Feng Shui of the patio, for sure. It no longer seems like a "room".

One reason!

I am not posting as much is because damn blogger seems to be screwed up lately and it takes FOREVER to post photos! I can only post one at a time and that just takes WAY too long. So irritating. I am sure they will just say it is on my end and maybe it is. Anyway, let me attempt some new ones today.

Well, apparently these are the ONLY two photos it will let me load today. WTF???? Pissing me off!

Fun trial, even if it did run TOO FREAKIN' LATE!

The morning started out with the damn judge "tweeking" the teeter. She tested it and said it was not dropping fast enough, so she added water bottles to it to weight it. That took about 1/2 hour!! Um, why?? Just tape the bottles on and continue!! Well, she ended up taking the bottles off after the first run and said it was miraculously tipping just fine now. OMFG, she is the most insane judge. I must remember that in the future and not enter those trials. Goodness, that teeter is used every single weekend for trials. I think it is set just fine!!!

Luckily, it was a very nice day and the dogs got to play in the fence area with some other dogs, YES, Roscoe actually played with a border collie. I SO wish I had my camera it was so freakin' cute!!! He was seriously playing, play bows and butt scooches. SO cute!!!

The courses were plain and boring, but Spur had a blast. I won't bother boring you with his standard run, there wasn't anything spectacular about it, he ran great. His JWW run was pretty spectacular only because even though it was just a bunch of S curves, there were some areas dogs were going off course or WAY wide. I did a couple of pull behind blinds where I just run in front of the jump and he follows behind me. Those are our thing these days! Keeps me ahead and moving! He loves them! Risky moves, but we do them well because I just keep on trucking out of his way! :D He won this class, which is pretty rare for Spur. His time was pretty good! 16th fastest of ALL the dogs who qualified and this was a full trial, so probably about 200 dogs!! For a dog with really poor construction and thus really poor jumping style, that's pretty sweet!! Good Little Monkey Pants!!

Another thing taking my time lately

Been training a "borrowed" dog to do a running contact. I am having SO much fun!! He is super smart and very fast. This is Jones, a very cool dog!

The first video is his second time at full height and first time running with me. I helped his handler train to this point and then she went off to college, so I am continuing. He has had a 2o2o for many years and is a top competitor. Second place at AKC Nationals last year. So, he is figuring out his footwork at speed, which he has never done before. Stopping requires a lot of collection, so learning to run it comfortably at speed is taking a little time, plus of course figuring out we want him to hit the contact. LOL!!



Two weeks later, I think he has it pretty well figured out!! :D



So, yesterday we tried having his mom run him. She doesn't run like me, but that isn't really the issue. It takes time to learn how to handle a running dog walk. She just doesn't have her verbal rhythm down, yet, so a few more tries and I think she will improve. He needs verbal driving all the way to the tunnel still.



And a little video of him at full speed with me VERY excited about his success!!! :D Very smooth!!

Damn, it's been a week since I posted???

We did a weekend trial in RI which means leaving Thursday night to do the Friday and Saturday trials. Then Sunday, home time and boating, then this week catching up and my regular walking schedule is back in full force. Plus, the weather is FABULOUS, so I am OUTSIDE instead of at the computer.
Anyway, here is a trial report.............Spur has his monkey pants on!!! He was SO happy and fast. As fast as Spur goes, he was on fire!! We had SO much fun. He loves this place, as do I! Lovely turf footing, AC, nice pond for walking around. Very nice hotel. We just had the BEST time!! Here are some highlights from our runs......