BevLive: Slash J, Day 3

Didn’t get as warm as yesterday, I think, and there was a strong wind at our backs all day. The running was very good on the smaller course with at least one score in the 90s and many scores in the 80s. Alas, none of them were mine.

I wasn’t disappointed with how either of my dogs worked. A pen would have gotten Nel in the double lift and Hemp was a good boy with poor steering on my part costing us the fetch gate. So tomorrow I will be spotting sheep for my friends in the double lift.

I missed a lot of the running as I arranged to buy a dozen sheep in Bowman at the livestock auction. This involved a lot of to-ing and fro-ing. I’m going to stay out here for an extra week and train my dogs on my new sheep. Then Joni has offered to sell the sheep for me. Sure is nice in places where people actually keep sheep. I’m looking forward to getting Joe and Odinn up to full speed. I have Odinn entered in the rest of this season’s trials and I want to try and get our teamwork smoothed out after her long layoff with her injured toe.

I hope someone posts who is in the final. I’m afraid the only ones I know are Jean and Dennis Gellings, Joni, Alison, Bud and Ron. They are running back fifteen so I’m missing a bunch. Sorry to be such a poor reporter. I did manage to get my new puppy picked out so my day wasn’t a total bust. Pictures to follow tomorrow.