Friday, August 28, 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

Another beautiful morning and the promise of a great day. We're running early and Linda and I have to make the trip to the Atkinson Vet for a follow up on Striker's eye. He is doing great but want to make sure we're not cutting the treatment short.

Roading:

· Lily, Shauna, Inde & Brie. Brie just not feeling like working hard to day so Linda brought her to the dog wagon @ 32 to pick her up. The rest of the crew did great for 60 min. Linda has done a great job getting everybody up to speed.

Hills:

· Sorrel & Ritha – Ritha a good day on the hills with 2 finds, ok style and a solid GD race. Lee was happy with her overall perfomance. Sorrel on the other hand started okay but got into an area with hot deer scent. Ed saw a big buck bedded down and tried to get her away from the area. No such luck – Sorrel kept working until he got it up and the chase was on—Bonnie going full bore trying to catch him and me a half a pasture away. The only redeeming factor was that Sorrel handles birds and as he ran through a large covey of birds he STF and Bonnie was able to grab him – a bit of a tongue lashing was all we could go since he did STF. From this point on, he handled but didn't go anywhere. Boring !!!!!! - 36 min. and getting warm on the hills.

· Lea & Sol - Sol had the find of the day with a very stylish find and perfect manners. A nice SD race and good stamina. Lea had a moderate race with a bit too much of hanging with Sol early. I was watching for her to make a hill far off to the SE and Bonnie and Ed were yelling at me something about a horse ( I thought) As Bonnie later said I had All – Age eyes handling a SD. It turns out they were telling me she was making game between me and her and the next thing I now – I rode up the covey she was working – she STF and I shot and took her on. Not far away she had another STF on a single. Manners okay but don't like her crowding and couldn't blame her for the 1st one. 35 min.

· Rhett & Midge- a find for Midge with a short GD race and a decent find. Rhett a reasonable GD without a lot of style and didn't handle the bird Midge had so back to the drawing board for Rhett . He is a very young dog and this is where the statement ' Patience is a Virtue' really comes into play. 33 min.

· Galt & Bert (ES) – Galt runs as usual ' big – big –big' with a handle very solid SD race – big but looking for you and always staying front – just a treat. Bert a stylish English Setter that shows moderate SD race and a good year old puppy & very pleasing to watch. 24 min.

· Rio & Tippy & Pal – all 3 dogs show desire and hunt & ran decent races for young dogs. I think we have an excellent group of young dogs. All dogs got into birds and chase – pointing was in the cover and hot pursuit. 20 min.

Friday Linda and I went to Atkinson to see the vet. All the people there were great and happy to see how good Striker looked. He really is an extremely likeable puppy and he's made great progress. The whole team was happy. They do Penn Hips on dogs and we'll need to look at that in the future.

Friday night was a Tamale dinner that Ed brought from California and might be the best tamales I've had since San Antonio and Robin hooked us up with – mmmmmmmmgood!!