Sunday

Pam hauled her sheep to 192 St. today. Just Bill, Lynda & myself were there so we got lots of time to work our dogs. I did a couple outruns with Blair; he was sticky on releasing the pressure to flank and hold the line of the fetch so we spent some time working on that. Jayne worked like a dream; her usual great outruns, decent lifts, not bad pace on the fetch and held the line like a magnet. Did some driving later too and she handled that well also. Hope this 'nice' works holds out next weekend at the SandHill trial. ;-) Owen faltered on his outrun; stopped to check out the 'doggy' soccer ball that was left out on the field but took the redirect. His lift and pace is too pushy at this bigger distance. Like his daddy at his age, he is burning to get them back to his comfort zone before he will take a lie down. So lots to work on there. He did some good driving also with very nice pace.
Lynda did some very good driving work with both Try & Lark. They are both outrunning nice and listening on the fetch. We both still have the picture of Alastair's P/N fetch and try to keep his distance off the sheep in our minds....
No pix but you can always just go back in the archives to see this big field. It was a beautiful day with mixed sun & cloud plus a nice breeze to keep it warm but not too hot. The field was mowed awhile back and is very burnt, dry yellow. We enjoyed a beer at the end while watching Pam driving with her young dogs on the whole group of sheep.