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So one of the oddest things ever happened to me today while I was home minding my own business.....

The UPS guy shows up-a rare occasion for us-but he has to back into the driveway to deliver our delivery.

He has to get out the dolly, and is really joking about what did we order??? We were all laughing, what could it be??? Humm, thinking it is surely a surprise because I ordered a DVD but they don't usually need a dolly for delivery.....My hubby promised me a long jump for my bday in November, but a-sure he will wait for a few more holidays before he gets that...and long jumps don't weigh that much or come in that many boxes. One of the boxes is SEVENTY POUNDS.

Well, after the UPS guy leaves we rip open a box and guess what is inside......wait for it.....

KITTIE LITTER. More then 50 bags of Kittie litter. WHAT????

I finally notice a phone number on one box, but of course as luck would have it-it is from a different time zone and the office must be closed for the night.

On the plus side the box says it is the WORLDS BEST CAT LITTER, so if I can not find the rightful owner...we will have the best ;-).

BUT SERIOUSLY NOT EVERY DAY YOU GET OVER FIFTY BAGS OF KITTIE LITTER DELIVERED BY UPS. Hopefully I did not order that in my sleep or something? I think I would have remembered, ...I hope I would have remembered.

Just a couple of photos from Crickets first trial ;-). Dynamic Dogs Photo did a great job. I trialed with Breeze about a year before there was a photographer at one of her trials, so it was really lucky that at Crickets debut there was a photographer and they got some good pictures.

I LOVE this picture because sticking the table has never been a strong skill for the Crickster, but she was working hard and stuck this table,she had a lot of speed going up to it and a lot of dogs were skidding off.




Check out that tongue on the dog walk, LOL.

So we decided doing a trial and seeing what we have would be a good way to start the new years.  It seems like forever that  I have had a hurt foot after breaking a bone in my foot ;-(, so I am so out of shape--I am slow to start out with, but guess that is on my list of resolutions ;-).  We had to race to the trial to make it through the Rose Parade traffic which I had forgot about being a factor, and it was in the mid 80's so I felt like it was sooo hot.  Cricket jumped on the sign in table, she jumped on the judge, she jumped on the food table, she jumped on the ring table, she felt like jumping I think.  She lunged into the ring netting and got her head stuck and took part of it down, yep, she was a little hyped so I thought it was really impressive how good she snapped into working mode once that GO sounded.  Walking into the ring the first time after she was so over the top....I really was not sure how it was going to go down. Have I said lately how much I just LOVE this little doggie???   The best part was there was a photographer so I got a ton of pictures, yippie.  We did get one Q in Standard on Sunday with a second place, and a Q in JumperWW on Monday with a first place. 

I went to the CP ranch to help with Nels delivery this weekend thinking delivery was going to be any second, but there were no pups by the time I left to take the kids trick or treating on Monday.  Tuesday morning I woke up and could not believe poor Nel had not delivered her puppies.  When I was there this weekend Nel was bigger then any dog I have ever seen--her abdomen measured THIRTY  THREE inches.  WOWZER.  She could not step over the railing into the whelping box and was so tired you could see what an effort it was to even pick up her head.  Karen decided to have a csection done which turned out to be a really good call. 

Luckily I got to be on the puppy team to meet and greet the new pups and welcome them into the world aka rub and irritate them so they got dried and breathing well after their birth.  I love the little black girl that Karen is holding in the video and says she is a tri, she has hardly any white but has a pie shape dot on the back of her neck, and she is a little girl.  The other favorite so far is the little boy that is almost all white with a huge white spot on the top of his head. 

I got to go home with the new family help with weights and getting people to nurse, and settled in.  The Final count was 9 pups, most around 9 ounches, so not huge babies, 5 girls and 4 boys. . 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LITTLE PUPPERS!!!

I do have to say that I get a lot of kidding because I do not post or do a lot of videos, or even take a lot of pictures of my kids.  I think a lot of parents of teenagers will understand that the fastest way to have your teens disappear from your view is to take out a camera.  If there is no means of escape for them .....well, that is when you can get as many of the  precious hand over the face pictures as you can snap.
 
So I just do a ton more pictures and videos of the dogs because the dogs are better sports about the camera, LOL.  Emmas FIRST ever swim meet gave me an opportunity to get some video because her defenses were down and she was not watching for the camera!

I was so proud of her she handled herself really well, and seemed to have a great time.  Just like agility trials the first time you have to figure out how to check in, find out which races you are in, which lanes and which heats you wll swim and what time to be where.   None of it seemed to throw her.

Em has just been swimming on  a team for a year now, and she has just done so well, it is cool to see your kid find something they want to work hard at, do well at, and have a lot of fun doing. 

Can you believe Breeze turned five today.  Of course I am late getting her video posted, but I do still have ten minutes until the end of her birthday!  LOL. 

This last year for us has been a rough one, Breezes poor body is starting to show the signs of her physical problems,  we keep trying different things but it has been over a year since she could do a set of weaves without limping and looking really sore and she is starting to get stiff in the morning.  I work harder and harder to keep her in shape but boy if we skip even a few days she seems to lose so much and that is so hard to see because I lover her to death. 

ON the plus side because we are not able to do a lot of agility I have done tons of tricks with her to keep her in shape and keep her happy.  She was never a great dog for shaping but that has changed.  I think she was always so good at agility and just so easy that I did not concentrate on shaping and doing tricks, but we are working so well together now and she is still a blast to be with, and there is no one more cuddly in the morning and when I watch tv in the evening-so it was all in all a great year. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BREEZE, Hope we have many more together!!! 

My tire needs to be re-taped because it is very sad looking ;-(, so I went out to buy some duct tape.  I have known there are lots more choices in duct tape, but check out all the colors I found  at Target, and there were even more choices that I did not get a picture of at Walmart.  Gone are the days of grey, utilitarian duct tape.  Now I got to choose from Camouflage, paint splotched, turquoise polka dots, zebra striped, just about any solid color of the rainbow, florescent colors, cheetah print, or HELLO KITTIE duct tape.  How lucky are we to live in such a day!

I was supposed to go play agility with friends but missed a vital turn on the way there ;-( . I ended up close to Sacramento, quite a way from my original destination, I would not have even thought it was possible I could have got that lost, LOL. I did not get to play agility with everyone else after driving for about 4 hours, it was looking like a real bummer day ;-).

This is SO CA so one can usually find something to do... luckily Karen let me do some agility at the CPBC ranch, we got access to yet another aframe, and as a special bonus I had a really great visit with Karen who was very nice after having someone drop in with five min. notice ;-). After our visit the dogs and I made a trip to the beach-it was beautiful, peaceful and deserted so it ended up being a great day, not the day I had set out for, or had planned, but truly a very nice day that was topped off by a nice dinner at one of my favorite places by the beach-what more could I ask for?


This is the first running aframe I have taught....I am learning a lot...we have had some learning opportunities (mistakes)along the way but we are finally have the aframe at full height and are doing some sequencing after the aframe. I was even able to do the aframe to the weaves the other day.

Well, after I totally messed up the Aframe we are back in business and seem to be back on track! Yippie! We are using the Rachel Saunders method.


On other exciting updates, I got new agility shoes, after hearing everyone talk about the Vibram Five Fingers...I had to try some, and have to say... I am loving them-they make me run faster and jump higher, LOL, maybe it is my imagination but they do feel really nice.

Photos by Karen Moureaux:










Breeze and I had a girls day out-we went to a herding trial, then to the California Poppy Preserve where Karen her breeder got some FANTASTIC pictures of Breeze.

We had a great time at the trial and met some super nice people, we saw Bean, and Fleur, and Nina from Contact Point. Bean has changed so much and grown into an adult, Fleur was so sweet and cuddly, tiny and pretty, and Nina looked like a real character-a very sweet dog. We got to see some ducks getting worked which seemed really hard ;-) and the ducks did not seem very co operative, not sure if all ducks are as rough to herd, but they sure were not into being herded today.