BevLive: Ready for the Bluegrass

Hi everyone. It’s blog time again. I’m at Dave Fetterman’s farm in Pennsylvania where I left my camper at the end of his trial last weekend. I got here a few hours ago and very briefly worked my dogs. It rained, often quite hard all the way here, then when I arrived the sun came out and it was like a sauna and too hot for running sheep to do much hill climbing. I will work all the dogs again in the morning more seriously I hope.

I have some new dogs on the trip and one old campaigner. I’m running Nel (Awel) in the open along with my husband Doug’s dog, Hemp. In the nursery I have Meg my nursery dog last year and Joe who faithful blog readers will remember I got as a puppy a year ago last August from Jean and Dennis Gellings off Dennis’ great bitch, Jan. I’m especially excited about running Joe this trip. He is very green and excitable but learning fast.

I’m also traveling with Odinn, a bitch Amanda found for me on her trip to Ireland last winter. Odinn and I are not quite where I would like us to be for the big trials. She is still struggling with her outrun a bit, hence my dragging Hemp out of retirement yet again. I hope she will get some useful experience on the trip.

I leave in the morning after working my dogs for Lexington and the Blue Grass. More to follow…