Whew!

The qualifying period is over! Yay! We finished things up nicely, too. Now we can relax. We are heading up to State College this weekend for a trial, but really we are going just to visit our son, Lee. The trial is just for fun. Of course, it does count for next year's Invitational...  :-)

This past weekend, we had a fabulous, fun, hot & humid, three days of agility at the BCKC trial in Palmyra! We closed out the Invitational qualifying period almost perfectly--we dropped one bar in our first run of the weekend, and then were fast and perfect for the rest. Now we just have to wait and see whether we qualify first or second!

Below is a link to a video of our JWW run on Friday. This was a really fun course and we got to do it twice! The first time through, when we finished the timer said we had done it in 14.44 seconds! Obviously, it had malfunctioned. So we ran it a second time a few minutes later. (Our actual time was about 29 seconds.)

What made this course fun and challenging was that you really had to move. There were a couple of spots where you were in trouble if you didn't beat your dog down the line.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In7VCRxJyDU

As I said above, Darcy was fast this weekend. I have always considered him to be heat sensitive. But I've found if I really soak him (with a hose or by letting him swim) right before we go in for our run, he does just fine.

My next posting will probably come after the AKC posts the final results for the Invitational qualifying.

Rob