CPE weekend

Last weekend Tali and I went to a CPE trial in Groveland. We had a lot of fun. She Q'd 3 out of 5 on Saturday and 3 out of 4 on Sunday. Her weaves rocked all weekend! We NQ'd in Jackpot due to time (I mis-judged the timing in the opening - grrr) and it was a traditional gamble to boot - oh well. We NQ'd in standard due to a teeter issue and a tunnel vortex. I forgot what we NQ'd in on Sunday... oh she went under the tire and then back jumped it in colors. Oh well... the teeter issue is troublesome - the tunnel vortex is just lack of practice. I'm still pretty happy about the weaves though!

Groovy came along both days. She and I had a fun time playing frisbee in the field on Saturday - she did really great. She wasn't comfortable going too close to the rings so we took it easy and stayed where she was comfortable. On Sunday Jack came and met some of the disc dog guys to practice. Jam came too! She did pretty good practicing in the field - for Jam anyway. Groovy totally wigged out about there being people in the field that was empty yesterday but after watching Tali play a little frisbee with Jack she snapped out of it and played with him though a good distance away from the strange men. She did awesome though. She was a little braver walking around the trial site and even took cookies from our friend Sherri. Hopefully soon she'll get a little braver and be ready to compete a little in toss n fetch. We shall see...

The time changed on Sunday - woo hoo! I've been tired all week but it's totally worth it to have it be lighter later. Groovy and I have practiced agility twice already this week (normally that practice only occurs on Sat. and Sun. due to lack of light) and Jack has had some really great sessions with all the dogs including Maximo. Max is learning quickly and his drop at a distance is coming along - he can drop it about 4 feet out now which is a huge improvement. He is really getting the hang of some of the vaults too! We tried the "Ron Watson barrel" vault training method with him... the little weirdo refuses to get on the barrel. So much for that! Jam however thinks the barrel is awesome and in just a few days her vaulting off of Jack's body has improved tremendously. Vaults and skip tosses are her favorite disc moves I think. She's so silly. Meanwhile Groovy is becoming the queen of zig zags which is also a big accomplishment because for a while we couldn't get her to stop herding us and were starting to think that her whole routine in the future would have to be nothing but around the worlds! Tali now has somewhat of an opening "routine" - something Jack's never bothered with before. Nothing fancy but it's something that will help fire her up so that's a bonus!

This weekend we don't have much planned. Some disc practice with our friend Chris, dinner with Jack's family, church on Sunday and that's about it. Then next weekend we have a UFO local - woo hoo!