Starr is a Star!

I can't help it. I have to brag on my little girl. The little devil that never got training as a puppy (I was having a horrible time with my back when I got her). But I finally decided that I had to give her a job. And with Rachel's unending patience, we are progressing in obedience. But I decided to not take Rach's advice to wait to show in rally until you are actually ready to show in Novice Obedience and we started showing in Rally Novice at Nationals. That was the one that I messed up. I cost Starr 26 points at that trial and we didn't qualify.

But last Saturday we put it together as a team. Our score was 97 which was good for second place! I am so proud of her. She watched me closely and one woman outside the ring thought she had a 100. That wasn't meant to be, but I am so very proud of the 97.

Ringo scored a 97 in Advanced Rally, but so did 4 other dogs and one scored 99 so he didn't place. I was real slow on the course because I wasn't as familiar with a couple of the signs. Advanced is all off lead and Ringo has finally remembered that heeling can be fun.

Sunday, Starr scored a 96 and fourth place. Ringo decided to show me that he is a corgi and I waved the white flag and we left the course.

Beatles & Rally

Ringo & Starr will be in a Rally Trial this weekend. Starr has class tonight and that will be her practice. Ringo will be in Advanced and we had to learn some new signs. (The signs tell you what to do rather than the judge calling out what you need to do. It is a little more like agility that way. You have to do what comes on the next sign.) The first new one we tried was for him to be heeling beside me, go over a jump, and come right back in to heel. So we had to make a new jump. I did and then we went to practice. He looked at me like I was going crazy, but it was no problem to come back beside me. That was yesterday. Today we worked on some of the others. He did great. Really seemed to enjoy it.

So now I am looking forward to Starr's class. She went to doggy chiropractor yesterday. She had been showing reluctance to jump up in the van or onto the sofa. And her sit was sloppy looking. She feels much better today. Can't keep her off the sofa - she gets up with ease. Caught her on the bed too this morning.

Weekend is Over

It's Sunday night and I really haven't done anything. The house is a wreck. I have papers all over the place. No motivation to clean it up.

I did go to Home Depot last night and get a small tool chest to try to organize my tools in the garage.

I feel very up in the air about the Social Security Disability and Medicare. I wish I had details now. I want to know what this is going to mean to me financially. I keep wondering if Medicare is going to be better for me. Surely it has to be. Just have to find a supplement plan that picks up the prescriptions. I am currently taking 14 different prescriptions. The right prescription plan will be critical.

The dogs have decided that the sofa belongs to them. They have been camping out on opposite ends for the past week or so. When it's cool, they curl up in tighter balls. So cute.

Mixed Emotions

I'm not sure why I am starting this blog. Perhaps to try to express my feelings.

I spent November 8 through November 15 at the PWCCA National Specialty at Callaway Gardens, GA. This is near where I spent 22 years of my life before I moved to West Palm Beach, FL in 1992. I had a great time and my corgi, Ringo, did very well in Obedience and Agility. My other corgi, Starr, didn't fair quite as well, but that was my fault.

When I got home on the 18th, I found out that the husband of a very dear internet friend had been killed in a farming accident. They had "retired" to Colorado and have an alpaca farm and also have angora rabbits and corgis. She spins and knits. It has been very hard to understand why this happened to them at this time, but death is so often hard to understand. My own parents "retired" to work on a farm of 1000 acres that they worked with 3 other partner families in Georgia. This friend and her husband were living out their dream on this farm and now his life has been cut short.

May God bless her and her son, Willie, and may she receive strength through God's love and ours.