Training

OK, so I did get up and work the dogs yesterday. First I worked Legend in Obedience-we will be trying for that last CD leg here in about a month. I did make her do longer stays than usual since my intention is to work on Open when we finish with our CD. I forgot how boring practicing a 5 minute down stay really is. Anyway, she did pretty good. She had a decent agility practice as well but was starting to get hot-it was really humid yesterday.

Zodiac worked on signals-good and directed jumping. His go-outs were nice and straight-no target needed and his jumping was much improved. Not totally normal but acceptable. I think the Rimadyl must be helping. He was even doing some pretty hard tugging with Legend the other day. Then we cooled off for a bit and did a couple pretty long tracks. Overall it turned into a pretty productive day.

I also took the new header picture yesterday. I like it, but it doesn't seem as crisp as when I was looking at it in the photo editing program. Maybe it's my imagination but either way I'm just not totally pleased with it. I like the way the dogs look, just not the quality of the photo. Maybe it's the lighting. I'll leave it until I get a better one I guess. It's more reflective of the time of year anyway.

One of my Clematis is blooming. The other one died. Guess I will have to get another one next year. Why is it so hard to grow plants?