I'm behind blogging last week because the office at home is getting painted and the computer is unplugged and wrapped in plastic. The NCEES meeting was good except for the day spent in the Atlanta airport on the way back to BTR causing us to miss running in the USDAA OCAC trial Sunday afternoon. The 2X2 weave poles came in and have been practiced at 3 different locations already. Agility class was canceled Monday because it was too cold. Thursday we did obedience in the evening - no formal classes but several club members came out to work. Grace did a short track in preparation for the Ft Worth tracking test.
Grace was the alternate Sunday. We did get to run... Track 6. For those of you who have been to the campus in Ft Worth that put us on the track on the back side of the south parking lot (the lot the club uses as a staging area). That field is a steep horseshoe shaped slope with a large canopied tree, retaining wall, and campus building to hold the scent at the top of the hill and a lake at the bottom. Grace did great until the 2nd to last leg which went downhill fairly close to the lake. Out on the lake was a elderly man casting a fishing pole into the lake and reeling it in, recasting... making whir... whir... whir. sounds. Grace lost her concentration watching him for a few minutes. She was at the turn when she looked up and saw him.... when I asked her to get back to work she turned left in the direction the wind was taking the scent and not the direction that the last leg went (right). After we got the whistle, the judges let her try the last 20 feet of the downhill leg again where she immediately turned right and trotted the last 85 yards to the glove and hovered over it.Well we have another try next weekend at the LCCOC trial.
