BevLive: the drama continues

Beautiful weather, coolish night got up to a breeze and clear skies.

Amanda and Bart got the day's running started with a demonstration run for local television. I ran sixth with Mirk. He had a really nice outrun off the left and managed to get the sheep through the fetch gates, albeit by a somewhat circuitous route. We had a reasonable turn and first drive leg. Wide turn and not great crossdrive, missing the second drive gate. Good shed and insufficient time to pen, scoring a 63 for our prodigious 13 minutes of effort.

In the east, this would be a disastrous score. In the difficult world of Meeker, it should be good enough to get us into the semi-final on Saturday.

The running today was a bit better then yesterday, with twelve scores of 60 or better as opposed to only ten such on Wednesday. The high score of the day was a 78 put up by Dennis Gellings and his wonderful bitch, Jan. Amanda and Clive had a very good go, scoring a 77. Carla King and Emma covered themselves with considerable glory on their first trip to Meeker by scoring a very respectable 71. Emma handled the sheep easily and looked to be having a good time on her first trip west.

I did a little exhaust work in the afternoon with Huck, followed by Amanda and Roz. Both youngsters handled the sheep with a lot of confidence and looked very capable.

Roz exhausting

Tonight was the annual art show where all the entrants for next year's poster are viewed.

Tomorrow is the last day of qualifying. Hope for continued cool weather and not too much wind.

I was very proud of Mirk. He was a good boy. Now it's Bill's turn.