Palmetto New Year's Eve Day 2

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood!!

What a way to ring out 2009 but with two clean runs!!

With Blyss's standard run yesterday, I didn't realize it but....Blyss titled in Open Standard!!! And today she titled in Open Jumpers!! Yee-Haaaaaa!

I shall ring in 2010 by running my very first Excellent A courses!

We had beautiful runs today. I do want to work on off course temptations...

It's New Year's Eve and we are going to be partying like it's 1999... by feeding the pups, feeding us, watching a touch of tv and hitting the sack.

Check in tomorrow is at 6:30am... UGH! Can you believe, Blyss is in Excellent A and still has only one official measure?!?!?! What's up with that?!

Palmetto Day 1 - 0 for 2

Oh, oh, oh for two! Thou shalt not work and run agility simultaneously! I had a 1:30 conference call for work that lasted an hour. Open Standard ran after Excellent Standard. Excellent Standard finished at 1:30. So... stupid, stupid, stupid. I decided to try to make it if I could. I got to the ring as the 8" dogs were running (small to big). And, well, thought, I'll try to run this course without having walked it! Actually, it wasn't too bad! I got all the way through to the end where I had to send Blyss into the chute and pull her around a pinwheel. Well... I didn't call her name soon enough and we missed the pinwheel!

Other than that it really wasn't too bad. We nailed the lead out, nailed the front cross into the weaves... another lesson learned!

It has warmed up nicely but come sunset it is going to get chilly again!

That's it for day 2... oh and the satellite isn't working... I think the world will keep revolving!

Palmetto Open JWW

Well, not too shabby... I've been working on my running (instead of hopping)... Like John says, I run like a girl... gee, I AM a girl!! So, Eric gave me some exercises which I have done as much as possible with my bum hip.

We NQ'd but Blyss ran fast and I think my running has improved. We have a long wait now for Standard. There are like 177 some dogs in Excellent Standard! They started at 8am... it is now 10:30 and the big dogs still have not walked!

Manatee Fairgrounds Palmetto/Sunshine Pembroke Corgi Club & Dog Training Club of St. Petersburg

Yeah, we are on our way to a 5 day trial... yes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 whole days! It's an AKC trial so Blyss and I can work on her final Open legs... hopefully, we'll be running Excellent A (could we hope for B) before the weekend is done.

Facilities: There are water and electric hookups, no sewer, however, there is a dump station on site. Parking is on grass, depending on where you park you can be very close to the ring or a short walkaway. You can also go farther out and get more privacy.

Rings: Here we run on covered dirt. There is a huge cement slab on one side, bleachers on the other and enough room between the rings for a walk way.

Blyss, Kayla and Skah will be running this week. It's going to be crazy since it was in the 30's this morning when we woke... running temps should be in the 60's to low 70's... YEAH!!!

The drive is kind of busy. There is a ton of traffic on the road for a Tuesday morning... mustbe because it's the week between Christmas and New Year's.

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Well, we arrived at about 2pm and got one of the last 50 amp RV slots. There were a ton of RVs already here. Apparently, people came yesterday just to get RV slots! We aren't too terribly far from the rings. In fact, it's a pretty sweet spot, there is plenty of room to set up the x-pen.

I'm excited! 5 whole days! It will be fun to see if our homework will pay off!