Turkeys and working dogs

Oh my what a glorious day! Sunshine with a hint of frost due anytime. So lovely compared to yucko Tuesday. ;-)
The morning started off meeting at Rose's to head south of the border to the Safeway in Lynden, WA. Quick scoot into the duty free where Nancy ducked in & bought a chocolate bar which meant we could avoid about an hour wait to get thru the border. She collected our passports and then made huge guffaws at all of our photos! The customs guard took one look at us & pretty much waved us through. Six women comfortably traveling in Nancy's truck to take advantage of the US Thanksgiving sale: turkeys at 27/37 CENTS per lb. with a $25 grocery purchase! Most of them bought a 16lb+ for about $6. I was not thinking and bought one of the smaller 14lb ones for under $5 - I should have gone for the bigger size and just fed the extra leftovers to my dogs....duh. Oh well, next time. Or maybe go down again this weekend; easy enough to find a few needed groceries for $25 and then buy 16+lbs worth of turkey for dog food for $6. Could cook it up and carve all the meat for the freezer, then make stock out of the carcass. I must confess that it would seem somehow sacrilegious to feed all that to dogs! lol
No border delay coming home with the customs agent also taking one look at the packed truck of shoppers and deciding we were no threat to Canada's security. Although he did educate us that there is a $20 limit on dairy coming back into Canada - which was news to all of us. Plus he nicely informed that 3 of the 6 passports needed signatures(not mine). lol
Then back to Rose's after an hour or so of shopping to work our dogs. On sheep not turkeys. lol Go figure what a difference a day can make: I told the gals what problems I was having with Owen....but he worked just fine. Still a bit stubborn on his bad side - the come by inside flank at a distance, but no poop eating or hesitating on the drive. Still falling off the pressure but more willing to hold it longer. A very good session with him & completely opposite to Tues. Just goes to show you that maybe dogs can have just an 'off' day. Jayne had to sit out so that I could work Blair on shedding and slicing flanks. He was pretty good after getting a few chastising comments from me. Although his 'out' still seems to mean 'speed up' more than it means kick out so we need to continue to work on that.
Next year will be Marg & Kane's first full time year in Open so they were working on some shedding too. Rose has also been putting more time into it with Jana, so along with some long distance instruction from David Rees, she put us both to shame. lol
All in all, what a sweet day!
Plus Thursday is TV Survivor night and boy oh boy what a season this one is turning out to be!!