Perfect morning

What a glorious morning, I have just come back from a long leisurely walk through the bluebells here are some pictures of my walk ! and a couple of some of my favourite flowers in my garden at the moment.

Catch up again !! OK Hannah this is for you are you keep reminding me that I have not done it for AGES!!!!!!!

I have been a extremely bad blogger recently, lots going on here, least of all one very happy eager pup, so most of my spare time is being spent doing little bits of trick training and socialisation with Yazoo at the moment, but I have had a fantastic few weeks, I will start with the first couple of UKA shows Scrambles and Waverunners. I love these shows the atmosphere is brilliant I really like the fact that I am able to choose whether to train or run my dogs, in each class, because they are smaller I find it easier to be able to watch my friends do their runs too. Todd won both his novice agility classes and qualified for the Royal Canin final and has now moved up to Senior level, and Jess runs at Champ level and had a 2nd in the Canin agility and won a steeplechase, Corrie had a great time running with Bern and got a nice place too. Here are some ringside pictures of Yazz and Itzy playing.

Next came the ESS show at Blewbery which happened to coincide with my birthday, again Todd ran really well, and won grade 3 – 5 agility, with beautiful contacts, he is now meeting my criteria in the ring as well as in training. He won a lovely cup for coming 1st which has got significant sentimental value, so thank you Todd :-)
Bernadette and Dennis had a birthday cake done for me and here it is, not only was it fantastic to look at it was very tasty too! I had some lovely presents too, including a pink glass sheltie ! an extremely useful new cage bag for my van ( and anyone that knows me knows that I have the odd toy or two to house lol lol ) a new fleece and Tshirt with a sheltie on some lovely flowers and some Bailys yum yum yum

my lovely cake.

I had a couple of weeks off for Easter, and had a fun and busy time.I had some great walks with friends and good training, Yazz started a puppy foundation class which I really think she is going to enjoy, I enjoyed my judging at the Easter show, there are lots of really nice smalls and mediums babies just starting competition at the moment. Todd did me proud by winning into grade 6 on the Saturday too.

I also got a new caravan thanks to Andy's keen eyes, he found it for me and its FANTASTIC, so this weekend was its first airing at Wallingford show, this was also Yazz's first camping show and she loved it, the weather started off a bit pants but just got better and better, I had a great weekend lovely company and some really good bits of agility, with both Jess and Todd. Here are some pictures of the weekend, my caravan, only when I downloaded the picture did I realise that there was a beer bottle in it oh dear !! there is a picture of a very very healthy lunch can't quite remember who's it was :-) and another one of someone just loving watching others work !!!

Another good weekend

Princess Yazz :-)

I had another really good weekend, on Saturday I went on a Nicky Garret training day with Todd, which was brilliant, I came away with more than one thing too Nick !! I love Nicky's way of handling to me it makes total sense, the weather was brilliant and Todd worked really well, I wish I had videoed some of it, I must remember to take my tripod and video next time I go on a training day. On Sunday I took Yazz on Hannah's Co-ordination and balance afternoon, she really enjoyed it and so did I, she took all of the things in her stride and I came away feeling very proud of her, she also managed to concentrate even with both her sisters there, whom she adores ( not sure that the feeling is mutual thought I think there is an old saying that goes..... 3's a crowd lol lol ) and Sharon's lovely puppy diesel too who she really fell in love with at Mid downs show. Before we went to the class we took a walk on Chertsey meads with Bernadette and Dennis here are some pictures of Yazz with her sisters, on her own and also of Todd and Corrie dripping wet just come out of the river, thanks again Dennis for the pictures.

Lovely weekend

I have had a lovely weekend, it was lovely to see every one at mid downs on Saturday, special well dones go to Andy and Kizzy and Bernadette and Zen and Leah and Hex, not a bad start to the year :-)

I was also extremely pleased with Todd his contacts were just as I hoped they would be, and I was disciplined with myself and made sure that he was in the correct position before I released him, which is why I have had to spend the whole of the winter proofing and re training his contacts in the first place !! a small handler glitch pointed him straight to the dog walk instead of the weave entrance in the Burgess qualifier, but the rest of the round was good. My jumping was a total disaster as I brought myself a few new pairs of tracky bottoms and the pair I chose to wear to the show started to fall as I was running so I decided better to stop than embarrass myself any further !

I wont comment about Jess as I ran her like a complete half witt !

Yazz had a ball at the show she met lots and lots of pups and there was a bit of a sheltie convention at the end, I think in total there was about 7 shelties, and surprisingly there was not too much noise from any of them, not even mine !!!!!!!

I was meant to go to the Chippenham show on Sunday, but decided to stay at home with Meg and have some girly time, she has been working so hard lately and wanted to do a photo shoot for her art with Todd as the white rabbit from the Mad hatters tea party, it was great fun, and Todd was a saint he just sat in his outfit for about 1/2 hour, I think he secretly loves being dressed up, specially when there was 1/2 a cup of tea as a reward !! here are a couple of pictures of them having fun and one that Meg has edited for her art.

I even managed to get my grass cut, I think that must be one of my most favourite things in the world is looking and smelling a freshly cut lawn, shame mine has a few craters in it now !

The last picture is of Todd and his most favourite ball of all time, its a shame its pink lol lol and Yazz trying to kill the camera :-)

Pictures and crufts well dones :-)

I just have so much catching up to do, so I will start here, here are a few fantastic pictures of Yazz taken by Dennis. My little girl is just amazing she is fitting in to life with us just brilliantly, Todd and her are such good friends they make me laugh daily. I am continuing to do lots of socialisation with her, she does a really good puppy class on a Tuesday night with six other pups, she is learning to learn with lots of distraction, which is really good for her, and before I end this post I just want to congratulate Bernadette and Zen, and Nicky and Indy, Toni and Minx and Kite and Dawn and Puzzle I was on the edge of my seat the whole way through the champ finals, it was brilliant.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Yazoo update

I cannot believe that I have had this little bundle of mischief for three weeks already, and in other ways it feels like she has been here forever. I have been taking her to lots and lots of new places, the shops, town centre, pets at home on more than one occasion, up and down my road and to the post office, to Nancy and Andys and to their indoor school, and I think that I am going to take her to the beach tomorrow, I love the Witterings and as I start me new job next week I think that we will have a beach day out. I have got a new job in a primary school as their afternoon receptionist and I am really excited about it, when I went for the interview it was a comedy of errors, I managed to snag my finger on the school gate, and when I went into meet the three people interviewing me I managed to coat the place in blood :-) but it obviously went well as I was offered the post a couple of hours later !!

Yazoo is such a cool little character, she is very outgoing and confident, she loves her toys and is doing some really cute clicker work, she can nearly do the elephant trick and is sitting and downing and turning right and left, but her favourite thing to do is the wobble board she LOVES it ! she is fitting in really well with all the other guys and Todd really really likes her which I am pleased about to say the least, when she sees him in the morning she makes a bee line for him and jumps all over him, which makes me laugh out loud, but the thing I like best about her is she is really cuddly, it took Todd a long time to be a cuddle monster :-) She has also been given some lovely presents from my friends, so thank you for that.

Last weekend I had training morning with Leah and Jess, which was brilliant I really enjoyed it and I actually managed to do push threws for the first time properly and now I understand how to do them will try to teach them to Todd too, Andy very kindly offered to have Yazz for me, I think they had a good time together or at least thats what he said :-) here is a picture of Andy and the naughty little bundle.

Today Yazz had her 2nd jab, which I just hate, but she was fine and took it all in her stride, I will try to get some video of her later this week doing some clicker work.

Here are a couple of pictures of her today.