The trial is going well. It’s pretty small, I think the judge said 150 runs for the whole day. Of course, I’ve never been to a small trial that ended early and this was no exception. We finished up around 5.

Zoe managed to qualify in Gamblers, Snakes N’ Ladders, Jumpers, and NAC. NAC she bailed her teeter, but she still Q’d. Here’s her NAC run.

Raven q’d in Jumpers, Snakes N’ Ladders, and Standard, I think. She didn’t qualify in NAC because she had too many time faults and knocked a bar besides. I am still debating whether to enter her tomorrow in NAC again or not.

Dare q’d in Snakes N’ Ladders. I was really happy with her.

I have other video, besides just Zoe’s NAC, but I didn’t have time to upload it and I’m ready to go to bed now. My knee went out again this morning and I can’t figure out what I’ve done. I get plenty of things telling me how to get rid of pimples but none on how to get rid of knee pain. Oh well, the wrap is helping and maybe tomorrow it will be back to normal anyway.

So, as you know, I haven’t done an agility trial yet this year. In fact I haven’t done an agility trial for something like 7 months. I don’t think I’ve gone for that long without doing a trial since Zoe and I first got started. A lot of days I feel so out of the agility loop that I wonder if I’ll ever get back on track.

I really wanted to do this DOCNA trial with Zoe because it’s her chance to qualify for Championships again, and we always have a really nice time at DOCNA Championships. I figured we’d do enter the whole weekend, while we’re up there. Then, I decided last minute that maybe I should let Raven run too. Then while I was temporarily losing my mind, I entered Dare in Snakes N Ladders and two runs of Gamblers. For anyone that isn’t familiar with DOCNA, Snakes N Ladders is a class that has no jumps. That is right up Dare’s alley…at least I hope it is. I decided to try out Gamblers with her too because I can still create my own courses, and I’m hoping to just make this a fun positive experience for her.

Anyway, it all sounded good until I started looking at how many runs I’d entered. I realized it was a total of 27 over the course of the weekend with all the girls! Good thing I’ve been doing a LOT of walking lately. At least I have a little more stamina. I may be needing a day at the spa after all those runs, but I don’t have a spa or a spa cover so I’m probably out of luck. That’s ok, I’m pretty sure that I’ll be happy with a nice relaxing hot shower and my jammies at the end of the trial days instead.

I promise I will have something else to write about besides the weather next time, although the weather is affecting the trial that I’m headed to this weekend too. It was supposed to be held outdoors on grass, but they are expecting possible flooding, so they’ve moved us indoors.

Anyway, we’ve been walking different roads than usual and I thought I’d show you what the main road coming into our town looks like now.

This is the bridge and as you can see the river isn’t anywhere close to it’s banks anymore.

Fortunately, even though this is just about a mile and a half down the road from my house, we still aren’t in danger of flooding at our house. Thank goodness since I have trouble understanding term life insurance, let alone flood insurance.

Anyway, enough about the weather…for today. LOL Friday we are heading out of town to go to a DOCNA trial. While we’re up in Salt Lake, we’re going to go into the opthomalogist and have Dare’s eyes rechecked. Then Sat., Sun., and Monday is the trial. Zoe, Raven and Dare are all entered. It should be pretty fun. That is, if I can even remember how to run agility. Seems like ages since we’ve been to a trial.