Gosh, I don't even know where to being on this weekend.
Tournament in Sandusky. Camped with my besties: Jbiz, Matty, and my sister. First day was nice, started out super humid but cooled by the afternoon and light sprinkles at the end of the day really helped cool things down... only after racing was done and Jbiz and I went to shower it started to DOWNPOUR. We had to walk through water above our ankles to get back to base camp. Then the path we all walked in teh grass to our tent turned into a mud slide. and water seeped between the tarp and the bottom of the tent.
We moved Tash and Pan into the back of the Vue for the night (it eventually stopped raining) and Matt took Demo into the bed of the truck. Jbiz and I kept the rest of the crated dogs in the tent because we both have cots to sleep on.
It was just... hell. My hell is not on fire, it's flooded and muddy.
We had to carry the dogs in and out of the tent to prevent them from getting mud every were.
And in the process I got a cut on my big toe by the nail that I believe is infected from walking thru the muck for two hours in bare feet.
Ok, now on to the dog's performances.
Had problems with the box on Friday and all the dogs bobbling. Slowed down the mechanism, and they did slightly better.
Starts with Pan were pretty good. Had some bad ones, but for the most part I kept it under .050 split. We did get our second perfect start today... but since I saw it and I screamed in celebration Matt (who was box loading) looked at the clock and didn't load a ball for Trophy... lost it on a no finish. oh silly greenie boxloaders. :)
Tasha got some pretty good starts with Pan today too when the lights started making more sense to her. As did Matt with Demo, although Demo started losing his concentration on the recalls and either couldn't find Matt or was blowing him off. Not sure which, but it concerns me.
Trophy was his awesomely consistent self, even if Jbiz couldn't get her passes together.
Cocoa debuted in Preflight and totally ROCKED it. It was pretty hilarious as we got her officially measured and the judge said he would give her 3 inch jumps if he could, lol! We started working thru her not bringing the ball back over all 4 jumps and not dropping early. Worked with another dog in the other lane (but not running at the same time, doing box turns while cocoa was running or alternating runs). Cocoa was slightly distracted, but quickly refocused. by the 4th preflight run today she was doing full runs and holding the ball all the way thru the end over 7inch jumps (we forgot to take them down to 6 and she'll have to jump 7 anyway for NAFA).
There were just enough wacky problems in the lanes, combined with severe pain today, a sun burn, crankiness from the flood, and sunburn today just sucked and for the first time ever I was really, really really glad to put this flyball weekend in the books.
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