Showing posts with label AKC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AKC. Show all posts

Thursday, December 31, 2009

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?!


Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

IRDTC Vero Fairgrounds

On familiar grounds here.

The RV area was almost full when we got here at about 6 o'clock pm but we were able to find a space. The x-pens are set up in a dog run instead of anything even remotely resembling a circle because we are so close to the RV next door. That's ok, as long as the kids can get out.

The dogs should be running full tilt this weekend because the weather is beautifully cool! It was 60 degrees when we left home. It is so crisp. It is only the 2nd cool spell we've had this year. I hope it lasts throughout the weekend.

The new RV is so much more comfortable. It's QUIET!!! No rumbling and grumbling. The stablizers work great. I sure hope sleep comes easily and we aren't rocking all night. There is a ton more space... it's amazing what 2 slide outs and 2 extra feel will do for the space. We aren't stumbling all over each other, there is room to actually move around. I could fix all 7 dog bowls on the counter!!! YEAH!!

Thea is doing great. The ride was easier on her than the x-pen is. She seemed almost comfortable on the trip, laid with Prix most of the way and stood with her feet on the couch, no crouching, no hiding. She didn't even want to get into her crate. Now that we are stopped she wants to stay in her crate. We have to carry her out to the x-pen because she just can't handle getting down the steps and into the x-pen on her own. She will come around. This is probably very good for her.

Well, this is it for the evening. Wish me luck!!

Tomorrow we trial!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Sunday at Tailwagger

Great day! The cold front finally arrived Saturday night making it waaaaay chilly in the morning which fired up the dogs... BIG TIME! They were running like the breeze. So much energy, you could tell they were feeling fine!

Congrats to Lisa who tore up the Jumpers course with Trigger.

Blyss also had a great jumpers run. I have never seen her so fast. She was nailing it and it felt so smooth. It gave me the adrenalin rush I get when John lets me run Hellion. She was sooooo impressive. We really feel like a team.

We are well into Advance and on our way to Masters! *Now if I could just figure out Snooker and Gamblers ;-)

Olaf did really well. Came in 3rd and 4th with Kito and Skah in Steeplechase!

We finished up early and got home before dark!

Now I'm off to Orlando for a conference... ugh, work! Then next weekend we will be in Orlando for an AKC Trial.