How Bizarre

ASHE AND PIXIE AFTER A ROUGH NIGHT KEEPING ME AWAKE WITH THEIR PLAYING:



I have to say it feels so weird today....I have been alone and have the house all to myself. That does not happen very often but my husband took the girls to San Diego so my youngest daughter can go to a swim camp. I have been home taking care of the zoo. Kimmie the cat got outside last night and I could not find her for a long time,... I would have been dog meat with the kids if they were off for the weekend and I lost their cat-I was SO relieved when I finally found her. Kimmie is not allowed outside but sometimes she gets DETERMINED to get outside-laying in wait for the door to open so she can dash out. The kittens Ashe and Pixie were little terrors all night running all over my face and wrestling next to me while I was trying to sleep. I wonder if they do that every night?


Emma's swim clinic is at the San Diego University. I can not believe how self confident and focused she can be, and she was very excited to go to the clinic even though she will not know anyone and it will be a totally new environment. The clinic is for sharpening up turns-which is something that she has been working on....and how to get a little more speed. It sounds totally cool but the kids will swim about 4-5 hours today, have lunch and go to the college bookstore. It is really cute how they seem to treat the kids like the little athletes they are. I love being able to watch Emma do something she seems so focused about and has such fun doing and watching her gain a so much confidence.

I am just tickled pink Emma got to go and that she has found something that she really seems to like. It is really cute because when we are leaving practices there are always a couple of kids that will come up to us and tell her how fast she is or that she should be doing some swim meets, it just seems like a great little group that all seem very supportive of everyone, I think the coaches are pretty strict about everyone working together and not forming cliches or not supporting their team mates. It is suprising how Emma has never complained about all the work and is now talking about wanting to get ready to actually compete in some swim meets.

If Breeze can not do agility....perhaps we can join the circus, LOL!

Breeze is too funny, I wanted to work on pivoting on the bowl. The way this was supposed to go was Breeze would put her front feet on the bowl and then walk her back feet in a circle with the front feet on the bowl. Breeze remembers we were working on putting four feet IN a bowl, so guess she thought this was a variation of that trick. The balancing is really hard for Breeze when she has to get all her feet so close on a small area, she knows what to do it is just physically challenging, sweet Breeze is willing to try anything if there is the promise of a ball to play with ;-).



On the personal front, I went to one of those hair cutting places where you get who ever is there to cut your hair. I had no waiting but after the guy started cutting my hair.... he says it had been a slow day and he had been in the back watching videos on youtube before I got there. As he is cutting my hair he says he had seen a video showing some sort of technique for cutting hair and he was wondering why they had done it like that but he said it was working really well and he liked it. WHAT??? He was trying something he had seen on youtube and was not sure what the purpose of the technique was. YIKES, I have to say it all made me a bit nervous. It did not help when I said I wanted a little layering in the front and he was doing some heavy duty layering in the back, but once he cut a few cuts and I realized how much he was layering, what was the point of complaining, I figured at least we should make it all even. LOL, not to worry the hair cut seems OK, but it was a bit of a scary experience.

VISITORS!

We had visitors on Saturday. It was a real bordercollie palooza! Pam came to visit with Bandit and Twix. Pam is a friend that I met after seeing her videos posted on youtube. She lives a couple of hours away so it was so neat that she drove all the way up here to visit with us.
http://www.youtube.com/user/IsabelleBandit
http://www.youtube.com/user/pamelamarxsen

It was a fantastic day,the dogs all got along wonderfully and had the best time. I had a great time too, it was great company. Pam brought some frisbees-my dogs have not really played with frisbees but they thought those were a lot of fun.

Lizzie suprised me the most because she usually tends to just hang out on her own and not really play with other dogs. Well she LOVED the dogs and really loved Twix,she was really flirting with him, but then he is pretty handsome. It was really cute how much she really liked playing with Pam who taught her a few freestyle moves. I was really suprised at how much Liz liked doing the freestyle moves, we just might have to explore that a little.

So how often do you just get to hang out for an afternoon in beautiful weather talking dogs? LOL, it was right up my alley.

Pam made a video of the dogs playing and check out how much fun they were all having.

just a little practice...

I have not worked on verbal "rights" and "lefts" in awhile, so I was impressed Cricket remembers so well. One of the assignments for the Sylvia Trkman course to shape four feet in a smaller and smaller bowl-well it as taken us a long time to almost get there, all three of my dogs were moving slow with this trick, but it is soooooo close now ;-)
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