Well, we survived! I think I tried to cram too much into the last three days, but we managed it somehow. Thank goodness for a really patient husband!

Friday we went down to Marysvale to meet with our obedience instructor and our friend for an afternoon of training. It was so much fun! The day flew by. I didn’t even really how quickly time was getting away from us till we looked at the clock and realized it was already 5:00. I rushed back home since I had a dog coming in to board for the weekend that was supposed to arrive about 6:00. (He didn’t get here till 9:45 Grrrrr…)

Saturday my mom and had planned to go to the Lavendar Festival which is about a 2 hour drive north of here. We had a bunch of errands to run on the way and we met up with my brother and his family for lunch. The bad part was that by the time we got back down to the Lavendar Festival my mom and I were both pretty tired. Then, when we got close we see the large crowds of people at the Festival. My parents are not big on crowds, and unfortunately I’ve inherited the same feelings. It’s something that I fight with constantly because it’s really such a hinderance to trying new things and going new places. At any rate, my mom spotted all the cars and people and asked if we could just skip it. So…for all that driving and time, we looked at the lavendar fields from the road and came home. LOL Here’s a picture or two though from the car. You’d never guess from this view that on that there were crowds of people and parking lot after parking lot full of cars on the other side of the road.

Then yesterday we rented the posthole digger and my husband and dad got the rest of the postholes dug for the fourth side of the fence. Still need to hand dig the holes a bit, but they’re pretty much done. Yay! I can’t wait till it’s done.

Last night I drove back down to Parowan to do some more herding. The real bummer was that I was scheduled to be down there at 6:30 in the evening since it’s been so hot during the day. Well, I got down there and three other people and their dogs were still there waiting to run their dogs. So, we ended up just sitting around waiting for a good hour or hour and a half before we did any herding. Twist had a really good night. He was able to move the sheep through the obstacles well, and even when they broke away and headed to the other end of the field he was doing a great job of covering them and fetching them back to me. Rogue did better this time although she’s still struggling in the deeper grass. Still going to have to get a picture of her disappearing in the grass one of these times. LOL Raven had some really nice pieces and then she’d get distracted. They all seemed to have a good time though, and I was less tired when we left than when I started out, so that was good since I didn’t get home last night till almost 11:00.

Anyway, that’s the weekend in review. I’ll probably write more about the obedience lesson later on today, since it will help me to remember what I need to work on with the dogs this week.