BevLive: Soldier Hollow, Day Two

Day got off to another cool start with the sheep again looking promising. Suzy had a fairly good go with Buzz that made us think there were going to be a lot of big scores. Again the sheep proved tougher than they looked.

In the late morning we had three good runs in a row. Dennis and his dependable Jan did a great job finishing a good run cleanly and scoring 81. He was followed by Bill Berhow and Mike with a more troubled but steady run scoring 79. The stars of the day were Tommy and Sly who made  92 look easy and inevitable. The sheep walked easily around the course. They looked at her once after the shed but then gave it up and went into the pen with relative ease.

Nel and I followed all this success but didn't shine quite as brightly. Nel was a bit shook by the crowd and started to cross her outrun. Since she is normally too big on her run out I was surprised by this. She handled the sheep well but not with anything like Sly's ease. We had a fairly good go and managed to finish but at 71 not nearly good enough. I was very pleased with her work though and I think she will only continue to improve. So if not this year maybe next. She is still quite sore footed. I'm experimenting with boots and vet wrap trying to help her out.

Amanda and Roz ran third this morning and also didn't get along as well as we had hoped. Their fetch was fast and a bit wild. Roz settled for the drive but the sheep never really got to liking her and they failed to pen, scoring in the 60s.

Tomorrow Amanda and I each run both our dogs, our last chances to qualify. It's supposed to be cooler so maybe one of us can put something together.

I managed to get my oil changed in the truck. The repair guys found a lovely little mouse nest next to my battery consisting of fur, nut shells and chewed wires. No doubt this will cost another $1,000 when I get home. Since the truck was running fine I told them to leave well enough alone.