So You Want to be on the Silver Team...

Great agility weekend. Something crazy over took me and I entered three dogs. Rival got to return to the fun and Tundra got four runs in veterans at 12 inches. Brink didn't have a great weekend. Last Sunday, we had some really tough weave pole entries that he never quite got even after multiple tries. I guess that carried over to this weekend, as he only did one set of weave poles successfully the whole weekend.

Video Monday

 

Stig at work.

A standard run by Rival.

Maybe a few words: Having fun at work-hopefully I'm making a difference. Loving training and doing agility with the dogs.
Wrote lesson plans for my first two classes that I will be teaching soon.
Planning an agility vacation to Washington state.
That is all, for now...

New Beginnings

I started the year by moving to Erie, CO, literally on New Years's Eve. I was wrong when I thought everything would be fixed by that move, it still takes time. The job market is oh so not good and I started applying for small business loans today and everything came crashing back to reality. I don't think starting a practice is going to happen any time soon, even though the banks advertise nothing down, they still want 20%-on a veterinary clinic! That's a ton of money. So I will build my very small business that I already have going, and keep looking for a veterinary job. The rejections are very hard on the ego.

Goals for the New Year:
1.Finish CCRT certification
2.Lose and keep off the 10 pounds I keep yo-yoing
3.Stick to the cleaning schedule
4.Find a job and save tons of money to start my own clinic
5.Get Brink qualified for USDAA nationals.
6.Train Stig to be ready to do agility by next year

First trial of the new year: Brink went to FRAC's USDAA trial last weekend. We only had one Q-Advanced Snooker for our Advanced Snooker title. We had a lot of really great runs. His contacts are broken and if we could fix that, we would be a Q'ing machine. I'm not expecting much for the SWAT trial the end of this month, but hopefully by March we will have made some progress. Here's his Grand Prix run, this was my favorite run of the weekend. He had a dropped bar due to my spectating and got called on the A-frame contact.

The Real Embudito Trail

Five days off work and a week with Chris and all the dogs back together. Some final decisions were made and I'm looking forward to the new year bringing better things-{like paying all the bills :)} Got some good hiking in the last few days, Stig did his first 3 hikes ever and I think he did great.

Tundra hiking up the trail.

Brink's a happy hiker.

I love hiking!

The view.

Wordless Wednesday for Happy Memories

The Total Canine

Check out my new banner! Sorry the picture's so small. Trying some new advertising for the business, so that hopefully I'm a little more visible at trials. I'm excited about the new logo-I had some car magnets and a t-shirt made also.
My last class-Canine Sports Medicine-for my Canine Rehab Therapist Certificate is this weekend and next weekend Rival gets to run in an ASCA trial. He is only entered in 3 runs, but I'm sure we will have a blast.

It's been awhile since my last post. Things have changed. Chris is living in Erie, CO going to school for Speech and Language Pathology. Brink got his second Open Standard Q. I am half way down with my Canine Rehabilitation Certification. I did another triathlon that didn't go well. Harry Potter has ended.

Brink's video:


Upcoming goals:
Last rehab class will be done Aug. 21 and then will have to schedule my internship.
Patriot tri in September, same course as Spring Fling, so main goal will be to go faster, but also to be 10 pounds lighter by the race.
Brink and Rival are getting to trial a bit here and there. Brink's goal is to get that last Open Standard Q to move into Excellent. I would like to finish Rival's ATCH in the next year-he needs 6 more gamble Q's.