whoo hoooo, I am all packed and ready to go on my weekend get-a-way. YIPPIE!!! No unfinished bathrooms, no flooding in the hall way threatening to make our hall way a duck pond, no dealing with my car getting fixed from the accident.
Sooo do you want to know where I get to go??? I am soooo excited, I am heading to the 2009 AKC World Agility Team Tryouts. I was lucky enough to have Alicia ask me to go and I have appointted myself to be Pickles Support Staff. Pickle is amazing and I am really looking forward to seeing his runs with Alicia, and there will be a lot of other really great people that I am really looking forward to watching.
It promises to be very exciting, I have not flown in ages and ages, and I have to leave the house at about 1:30, drive to Alicias and then we will head to the airport to catch our plane around 6 am. YIKES, I am a little nervous about that. When we get to Minnesota we will head over to the venue where there will be practice sessions, then there will be the draw for the run order. Saturday and Sunday will be the runs. www.agilityvision.com -you can pay for live streaming of the event and they will sell DVDs of most of the runs-which is how I watched the tryouts last year, but this year I AM GOING LIVE! hahahahaha. I will try to get lots of pictures!
Lizzie-A new place, new dogs, and some fun agility
Today was the Fun Run Books fun runs locally to help collect books for the local group that goes into the schools and libraries and helps kids learn to read by having them read with specially trained dogs. A good cause, a nice day, and some agility what could be better? Little Lizzie run with Alicia today, and this is the dog that last summer could not attend a class because she would zoom off, she could not go to a new place off leash and some days it was hard to get a few jumps in a row. So today, a new place, new dogs, a lot going on, and running with Alicia and she was terrific. When we got to the place Lizzie got out of the car and was in the street, and can you believe this little angel (well, maybe not an angel....LOL) came back the minute she was called. She is really growing up to be such a good girl. It is cute because she LOVES Alicia, she loves to play agility with her. Lizzie is a really fun dog to run especially now that she is so into the game. She is really coming together nicely. I can not wait to see what a couple more months is going to bring!
Friends
My younger daughter is at a hard age. Her older sister and the girls they play with love to play video games all the time. My younger one gets bored so she has taken to taking Cherry out to play with her. They are pretty good friends. They could both sit and throw the ball all day long. Cherry sits and watches tv with her and follows her everywhere, it is very cute. My daughter saved her allowance money for a chuck-it because Cherry slobbers the ball so much, LOL! Cherry had a FHO on her leg at about 7 months because she broke the top of her hip, and I am thinking it looks like she is not putting as much weight to push off on her rear leg lately. I had not been as good lately about doing the balance ball exercises and the sit to stand things, we have been doing more jump training things, so maybe that has to start again-but I think I am going to go through old videos and check it out. I was on the OFA site looking around and Cherry's OFA score is there, she is rated as "fair" on the non affected hip. Playing ball will have to do for Cherry for exercise today..she is going to miss her class because I can not fit all three dogs, and two girls in this tiny little rental car.
Bathroom Redo-take 2-non dog related
Well, I tell you when it rains it pours. Literally. A few weeks ago I redid the bathroom, whooo hoo, and it looked gorgeous if I do say so myself. So after I carefully picked out some pretty accessories and came up with a theme, after I carefully painted the whole thing, scrubbed and detailed everything and was finally happy with that bathroom....the bathtub sprang a leak. YEP, so the carpets got all water soaked down the hall way and into the living room. So that meant several visits by the plumber until the problem was finally diagnosed. I must say the plumber is VERY pleasant but I would much rather shoot the breeze with him in a social situation. So at this point we need to replace the bathtub, the carpet, and parts of the moldings. OK. We find a bathtub, and of course almost all of them were 30 inches and we needed 32-so the only 32 inch one that was in store was twice the price, of course, LOL. Today is the day that they pulled out the old fiberglass tub surround and put in the new tub. When they were trying to put the new tub in they had to pull the old tub surround out and to get the new tub in they had to cut a LOT of wall board/plaster out, and a huge hole in the hall wall behind the tub and they had to pull off all the moldings around the door-so add that list to the things that will have to be replaced. In my bathroom I found a toilet 3/4 full of glass because some of my little glass vases had fallen off the wall and broke in the toilet, so I got to fish little glass shards out of the toilet. Talk about a mess. To tell the truth usually when knick-knacks break it is not that bad because it is hard for me to get rid of things and this way some things are purged, it is just fishing them out of the toilet that was a bummer, LOL. Poor dogs spent the whole day in their crates or stuck in the back yard. So at the end of the day I have a pretty new unstained tub that will hopefully hold water, and it is deeper-YIPPIE. I have some beautiful walls of studs and insullation so we can not use the new tub and I have dust everywhere. I am so happy I redid the bathroom a few weeks ago, guess it will just go faster when the walls are patched, the tile goes in, and I can redo it all again. Of course I will be happy WHEN it is all DONE, but it is sure a mess today! The kids are pretty upset that there is a big hole in the wall so there is a nice view of the toilet from the hallway, LOL, so they had to rig up a cover to make sure no one looks!
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