I left work late last night (Bern missed obedience class) in an effort to make some headway on the various piles in my office. That effort was very productive. I stayed too late though and walked out to my car after dark - after lunch I had been forced to park far away when I returned from an appointment - making for a long journey in the dark. Not safe - must remember to leave earlier. [Note: I get worried when I see abandoned women's underwear on the sidewalk leading to the office in the morning as I did yesterday morning. When URS first moved into the building, the cops had to explain to several young women that they could not ply their trade in front of a respectable office complex. I thought the problem was resolved, but perhaps not. So I should not be staying at the office after dark].
Between leaving the computer last night and returning this morning, my extended circle of friends at church ended up with 2 folks in the hospital (not related illnesses). The news took the wind of my sails this morning. Went down to talk to the boss, he wasn't do well today either and in "pain". Said several prayers and pushed ahead for a productive work day.
After bell choir, I rushed off to go retrieve Bern and Grace from Tom. Bern practiced some before Grace's class to make up for missing yesterday. He had offside weaves tonight - no onside weaves. Okay.. we will do offside weaves this weekend if we can in our courses. His other obstacle performances were good with manual shift steering as expected.
Grace's class worked some shorter sequences from the course that was set up for Monday and Tuesday. We also worked on weaving some... not sure that she will weave this weekend but I don't really care because she will be weaving soon. Her distance handling is improving but she still wants to run back to check in with me before she runs out towards the next obstacle... this may eventually get a refusal call in FAST/Gamblers but we should have it fixed by then. She just needs to maintain obstacle focus and not return to a default handler focus after each obstacle. More sequence work should help with this. I'm looking forward to running her this weekend.
