Australia Day 2013

Sparkie kept refusing to spin and my wristbands were making me itchy. Chana paused in the middle of her routine to complain that the music wasn’t loud enough and Lassie messed up a bit at the end. Jessica accidently dropped Tess’s ball mid-routine, and of course Tess grabbed it and started being goofy. At one point Chantel didn’t hit the right button of the computer and it started playing the wrong song. But overall, a good performance from everyone!

Bits and Pieces

Not much has been happening around here. We have a performance planned for tomorrow so we’ve been rehearsing for that.

Chantel, Gabrielle, and Jireh have caught another cold. We’re starting to upgrade our agility equipment, in preparation for the show season. It’s still really hot nearly every day. It’s now official that we’ve going to the Million Paws Walk.

 

And I’ve now had this blog for over a year, which is the longest I’ve ever kept a blog going!

Halfway through January!

Already??!! Well, I guess it doesn’t help that for the last four days of December and the first four days of January I was in bed sick. I’ve recovered now, but our Christmas routines had already been cancelled due to a bad round of colds and planned for New Year’s Day. And because both me and Jessica were sick in bed at that time, it means that our “Christmas” routines have now become “Australia Day” routines.

 

So, plans for 2013? Three different shows in May, as well as the Gympie Show. You’ll know when it’s official when it goes up on the team website. The Gympie Show won’t be up there, though, because it’s a competition not a performance. But our attendance there is already pretty much set in concrete – for me and Sparkie, this will be our fifth year in a row competing there. And Tess’s fourth and Lassie’s third.

 

Training the team is going good. Our current neighbours have two Chihuahuas, which they brought over to watch rehearsals last night on our request. According to the Gympie Times, at the 2012 Million Paws Walk in Gympie there were around 50 dogs and 100 people. We’re obviously not going to get that amount watching our rehearsals, but we’ll try to get as many as we can, to get the team used to performing around other dogs! The Chihuahuas didn’t faze them at all – not even nervous little Lassie. So it’s looking good and we’re all looking forward to May!