Back At The Start

Last month, I wrote that I hoped to have good news to share in my next post, and I am so happy to say this is actually going to happen.

At the state agility trial on September 7, we won one of our Novice Jumping classes with an amazing clear round. Skuggi was the fastest dog by a full four seconds. After fifteen months straight of getting faults in every run, I couldn't believe we'd gone clear this time and I assumed he must have knocked a bar somewhere because he always does. But not this time! What a high point it was to walk up the front at the prizegiving and collect our trophy, a bag of expensive dog food, and a clear round certificate. Now we only need three more clear rounds to get to the next level. 

We were suddenly able to afford to buy ourselves a new bus, in a very unexpected turn of events. So on Tuesday the 10th, we went to look at a bus that was about an hour away from our camp. The following day, we brought it home. I'm still somewhat in disbelief that there's going to be four solid walls around us, and it's not a moment too soon as the main doors on both our canvas tents are failing, after four months in constant use. It's going to be a fun project to transform it from a retired school bus to a home than can house nine people, five dogs, and a cat.

But our run of good luck didn't last, of course. Yesterday we took our van in to be checked over before getting it registered again and it did not pass the test. And of course, we are still homeless. A few weeks ago, we were in contact with someone who had a job available and they said they'd get back to us on the weekend. Well, that was two weeks ago and there's been absolutely no contact from that person at all. Honestly getting fed up with people like that and there are so many of them. So four months on, we're still stuck here and our brief respite from being broke won't last.