And here we are 4 days later.

Four days, seems like its been a month. Oh and I am refering to the fact that I haven't posted anything in four days. It was an eventful weekend. Jenna and I were very far from the top of our game. Quite aweful actually. We only got 2/4. Placed 4th in Saturday Standard. I compeletly screwed up our jumpers run, I even managed to have Jenna stop in the weave and give me the "What the HELL are you doing?!?!" look. and then we got 3rd in Jumpers on Sunday, we would have been clean in standard except Jenna randomly decided to jump sideways off the table. It wasn't a good weekend for us. The dog I mentioned in my last post, Flint, was such a good boy :) I only ran him on saturday, but we managed to place 3rd in standard- yes I beat my own dog with someone elses dog, granted Jenna and I didn't have a very nice run, but still.

 Some other stuff happened to, but normal stuff that doesn't go in the same direction as this blog. Although I feel, and I want to, show you what I was working on these past two days. My partner for English class and I are working on a debate, we get 5 minutes. We are going to start with this:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTIT2ofUpBk   - it isn't the best, but I like it and so does the teacher (which is kind of important) Its just to get the class into the presentation :)

Another thing from this weekend. I have been watching the novice class, mainly to watch students, at the shows these past two weekends and one thing that I find so interesting is watching adults, with no previous agility skills compete in novice. Its funny to watch a 44yr old deal with the same problems that I delt with when I ran Jack for the first time in novice, of course I was 6. It made me think about how agility really is for everyone. There are no age limits, or specific genders, or even strict physical requirments. Sure you have to own a dog (thats trained) and be able to move alittle, but really thats it. With some guidence and training there are no limits for handlers or dogs. It really takes me back to when I was 6 years old at the shows getting to run in novice was so cool! made me feel like a big kid. Now being able to walk the courses at world team tryouts, I feel like a really big kid :) actually no, I am a big kid, playing with the even bigger kids.  I don't know but watching those poor people in novice whose dogs decided to visit a bar setter or do laps around the ring, is kinda a good reminder that we all came from the same innocent naive novice class. And that from there we can go anywhere and achive anything is kind of cool. When I started running Jack, never once did I imagine being able to go to World Team Tryouts. Makes me wonder where I will be  9 years from now.