BevLive: on to Meeker

Oops I forgot to blog yesterday. I imagine by this time you all know how it turned out. So I’ll give you more information about my run than you want.

Joe was great. Needed a redirect on his first outrun but took it like a pro. He had no idea what his turn back whistle meant. Nope, never heard it before. Eventually, twenty point later, I got him back. He was fine around the course and good to shed with. However, we lost the sheep at the pen when they went over the top of him.

So we didn’t win. Next year. He was really fun to run and handled the sheep great. I feel like I have an all grown up open dog and I’m very excited about that and can hardly wait to try our luck at Meeker tomorrow.

Amanda and Monty got off to a rocky start on the first outrun and never really got together all the way around. It was too bad as we thought he had a real good chance to win. Lori and William did great getting finished with one of the few pens of the day.

The final was really strange in that the first outrun is usually the tricky part with the turnback to where the sheep had previously been held quite easy. This year it was just the opposite for no reason we ever figured out. I think every dog crossed. I didn’t see all the runs but if the dogs didn’t cross they all tried to. Dawns’s Slim had the best turnback I saw and seemed to stay on the correct side after a little uncertainty.

Amanda and I packed up after the last run and drove part way to Meeker. I arrived this morning and have a practice session with Hemp at 1:00. He’s done nothing but sit so far and now he needs to get ready to run. I run Joe tomorrow and Hemp on Thursday. Soldier Hollow is now old news and we’re on to the next event, full of hope for success.