last weekend....

Well it's taken a whole week to post this...but last weekend was pretty much a disaster...
Set of to go to the Hare N Hounds fun day at the horse festival, got up in good time, packed me and Jette up, sun shining, all going well, until the car started to make a really funny noise about 75 miles in to the trip....turned back at Newcastle and limped home thinking the front wheel bearing had gone. Garage says no, it was the two new rear wheel bearings that had both come loose...and it might have damaged the stub axle....ooops!
So a week without my own car, no Flynny-bobs training, no Jetty-kins training but going to risk it to judge the jumping at Dilly Dogs tomorrow....just hope it gets there, cars eh? Ace when they work, total pain when they don't!
One really nice thing to happen, Chris from Hare N Hounds sent me a card and a pressie for Jette as we'd missed out on the fun, how lovely is that!

Flynn and agility training....

Well I can't say the lad is unenthusiastic....he so wants to come out and play agility. Flynn really follows body language so his shapes are great and he loves tunnels too so, after only 2 weeks he can do simple sequences following a toy such as, jump, jump, tunnel, jump. He's great, what a fellow!! Obviously the jump poles will be on the floor for a long time yet but I've found we can rest them on the jump feet to one side, so he's knows he's doing something other that just run through the wings. He even got a wiggle-woggle on in the channel weaves which he just lurves!!
Only problem of a sort is that I'm too bloomin' knackered to train Jette for longer than an hour in the next session, Flynn is soooo strong and bouncy it takes a lot of brain power too. Need to eat lots of Mars bars for next week as we're doing contacts and Jette so needs to practice her contacts seeing as the 'Flying Aframe' has put in an appearance again ha ha!
Anyway good luck to everyone this weekend, no matter where you go or what you do, look forward to hearing all about it on Monday. Us? We're off to a horse festival 'up North...we may be some time, it's a long way :)

Other people's blogs

OK so I realise these blogs are sort of like diaries...some I've read like the Raw Meaty Bones one is sooo funny I even read the archives and I love reading about the adventures of Maisie, Tim and Billy-Woof on Kirsty's BUT would people just think BEFORE they write? Something I've just read was directed towards someone I know and I don't think a blog is a place to air such things, if you've anything to say to someone...say it face to face please...rant over! :)

Flynn is one, happy birthday matey-boy!

My lovely big chap Flynn is one this week, many happy returns big man :)
He's started his puppy agility class...it may be quite sometime till he makes his first appearance anywhere but he really loves to work. will have to wait for his hip score next month to see if the big man can come out to play and jump....

Anyway here he is, handsome hunk!!

What a great weekend...!

Well what an ace time we had at Otley, managed to grab us a last minute camping spot so we could sample the Black Sheep real ale and, my goodness, wasn't it real!!!
Jette was just fab and got herself a 4th, 5th, 7th and a clear, gosh what a clever girlie :)
Sooo nice to see Helen who had a birthday so we had to have cakes of course, plus the red kites were flying over the venue and are so elegant, can watch them all day.....
Lots of lovely people there we knew, Kirsty and Maisie bagged themselves an ace 3rd in Grade 2, won't be long till Grade 3, Tish and TJ won into Grade 2 so loads of ace results.

Who we are...!

OK so I'd better add who we are lol!
I'm Jules, owned by the black monsters, Willow (aged 10 going on 3) Jette (aged 6) and Flynn (nearly 1) all labs and all squirmy, bouncy and lovely.
Willow is retired from agility as she has a dodgy elbow and now spends her time mugging children for ice-cream and still playing tuggy and football, Jette competes in Grade 1 agility and provides huge amounts of entertainment for any crowd as she bounces up and down and on occasion gives me a split lip! :) Her best place to date was Newton Heath the other weekend where she got 5th in Agility and 2nd in the Jumping, so proud of her :)
Then there's Flynn poooopieee who is just packed with testosterone and a huuuuuge big bouncy boy. He's got his Good Citizen Bronze but won't stay still long enough for the Silver and is starting his puppy agility class next week so I guess this blog will follow him through the training.
Good luck to Kirsty and Maisie Mouse in the rescue agility finals next Saturday, we're going to go and cheer her on :)

Ok so Kirsty says I've nothing showing on this blog....so here's a trial just for her! :)
Well it's oh so quiet this weekend, nos hows to go to as I thought I'd be looking at a van, but the guy went and sold it from under me so not best pleased :(
Loads of gardening, ace home made fish pie for supper, dogs are happy with big smiley faces, managed to get Jette to 'drop' a mole on command before either it bit her or vice versa. Plus my first crop of strawberries, there were more but of course the Flynn Munster managed to get the first ones lol!!
Looking forward to next weekend, one day watching Maisie Mouse strut her stuff at the Rescue Finals 2010 and another looking at this new agility field to see if it's any good for us to rent.