I'm not feeling super good today, so a good excuse to get caught up on videos...

LJ friends have probably already seen this, but for the rest of you, here's some video Kristi and I did of the dogs having a bath day.  It took HOURS, but thankfully we had good wine.  :-)

I'm way behind on LJ, it was a crazy week and I'm still running behind.  I'm hoping to get caught up tonight...  Here's a little video with appropriate music from today when we worked on the teeter.  Vic really surprised me, it's WAY higher than it's ever been before, but I figured I should try it, since I have the stuff in my backyard.  :-)

Okay, maybe margaritas aren't like mimosa's in the morning... ;-)  Here's the video!

I've been wiped out with allergies for days and am in the middle of designing 14 courses for Kate's trial.  At least Saturday (Starters/Adv. Gamblers, Standard, Pairs and Snooker) is almost done.  Sunday is just Standard, Gamblers and Jumpers, so that will be easier.  Very glad that Scott L. gave me the advice to make my Standard courses first, makes everything lots easier.  :-)  Classes this afternoon, then more course designing tonight.   Whew!

While Kristi was off pulling muscles in unpleasant places, I went over to do a few frames and let the doggies swim.  Vic was good about the frames, definitely not too keen on me being static and closer to the box.  Definitely something we'll continue to work on and otherwise he was super solid.  After I'd put the frame back up to the height Kat is working on, I thought, "well, the box is still on it..." and did one with me in motion.  He was perfect.  :-)  Of course, I didn't film that one.  Here's some video of the dog's having fun.  I'll put together one of the frames later.  

Seriously, way too hot for me, it was in the 90's today.  I felt like I was melting, definitely glad I wasn't trialing this weekend.  :-)  I was going to drive down to watch the P-Wow's debut, but traffic and the heat kept me home.  Then, I was going to go over to Kristi's to let the dogs swim, but was too lazy for that too.  I'm using Max's recovery as my formal excuse, but really pure laziness, since it's 3 minutes away and Max didn't have to go.  I will be going over there tomorrow morning, since Vic must do some frames if a late July Perf. Speed Jumping debut is in his future (not Championship, because I'd like to avoid the spread jumps and a lower frame would be better, since it already feels like a greedy goal to try and be able to run him in Scottsdale).  My lazy solution to everyone's heat misery was to water the lawn, so Vic and Starlet had some sprinkler fun.  Max wasn't too into it, but he's definitely seems to be feeling better.  :-)  I don't let Vic play with the sprinkler too much, because of his super man leaps and Starlet spends her time psyching herself up to try and bite it.   They did have a good time with it today.  :-)

 

It's Vic's Dark Side! 

  Starlet getting down and dirty...

Aside from my unpleasant reminder of Max's mortality today, I did have some fun with Starlet and Vic.  Okay mostly with Vic, since Starlet was unfilmed and most of it was spent reminding her that 12 weaves poles in a row, means she has to do 12 weave poles, 10 isn't close enough....  Kate came up with the very-soon-to-debut Power.  I'm planning on driving down Sunday to watch her at her debut show.  Powwow is so cute!  Vic still holds his breath when I say Power or any variation of her name.  Face to face, he's a bit shy around her, all that energy is intimidating.  ;-)  One of these days (I'm hoping next weekend), I'll figure out how to download the old video I have of Vic and Power at 8 and 7 weeks.  It's ADORABLE!!!!  Power's sister Fly, (aka Whitey or The White Puppy aka The Puppy That Could Have Been) made her debut last weekend and won both her classes!  Yay to the White Puppy!  

Having Kate around has been very fun!  I'm going to try and start going to Somis early on Tuesdays, so we can get together for puppy training.  Between Kristi and Kate, I may be the luckiest person ever for training buddies!  

Vic was super once again.  He's so easy to run, aside from weave entries (which haven't been trained at all), all the mistakes are mine and inevitably come back to over-handling.  He doesn't need nearly as much help as I want to offer.  :-)  So here's some lazily put together video from today.  :-)

My second Saturday off in years and the weather is ridiculous.  :-)  It's supposed to be in the 80's back at the river and that's where we're off to.  My three dogs and some non-agility friends and two more dogs (Bruno and Audrey).  Today will be the day Vic learns how to swim in moving water.  :-)