Holidays!!

I'm really not good at having Holidays. 

I was planning to take a full week off work starting with Empingham Show but managed to sneak in a couple of hours last Monday :-) before we headed down to Dorset on Tuesday.  The joy of being you own Boss!!

Empingham Show was very enjoyable.  I'm not sure why but I've always struggled to look forward to this show in the past (Maybe it's because I normally enter too many in July?) but this year it was almost perfect. Nice and relaxed.

All of the Grade 3 courses were well thought out and flowing.

This is Saturday's Grade 3 Jumping (our 1st run).  With Paul and Quincy showing us how it should have been done :-

Please excuse the strange banner across the beginning.  I've got a new camera that saves video's in a format the Movie Maker doesn't accept so I used this programme as it was free.  I didn't realise it would do this!!

Again our weekend of competing was encouraging and disappointing all in one!!

Reno wasn't reading my cue's very well on some occasions and then on others my cue's were way to late.

Both of his jumping courses on Saturday used green weaves that I felt were very difficult for him to see.  He ran passed this set but in his other jumping on Saturday he just missed the entry, going in at the second pole.

I was pleased with his Agility on Saturday as he stopped on the Dog Walk contact.  I'm trying to stop him going wrong in the ring so had planned to work him to the end of the first contact, praise him then leave the ring.

Paul was judging two of my courses on Sunday.  I worked on his ring all day and helped him set up both courses.  They were lovely and I was so looking forward to running both of them :-)

Optimistically I planned to do two contacts in the Agility - as the first one was the See-saw I felt sure he would stop on it.  Unfortunately he didn't so I held it down for him to correct himself, praised him then left the ring!

I can't believe I made such a hash of Paul's Jumping.  My timing was so far out but on a positive note Reno followed my handling perfectly - even going round two jumps because I didn't signal a change of direction.

It really doesn't surprise me that he'd totally lost confidence in me by the time we ran his last jumping with Reno more or less doing his own thing which included a perfect weave entry and completing a set of 12 weaves................yeahhhh!!

We did manage one clear round though................Pay on the Day Helter Skelter!!

The weather was glorious for our few day's in Dorset and the Boys made the most of it playing for hours on end in the Garden with their Friends.

Ollie still manages to get the better of Reno even though he's half his height.

Although he sometimes has to rely on Kiros to hold Reno down!!

It was a perfect opportunity to build Kiros's exercise back up gradually and (for once in his life!) he seemed quite sensible, not overdoing it.

On Ade's advice I've bought him a Bio-flow collar.  Ade has one of the bracelets and firmly believes that it keeps his aches and pains at bay.  We'll see how Kiros gets on with his.  Anything to help keep him comfortable.

Just had to finish with this photo.  Even though Reno is starting to show signs that he is growing up he couldn't resist sneaking onto the work top.  Bless him :-)