USA North Central Regional Championship
My Schutzhund club hosted the North Central Regional Championship over the weekend. It made for a LONG 3 days. 2 days were mostly just sitting around all day but Sunday was alot of fun. Friday we setup and then did dinner for the draw (competitors draw an item to find out what order they trial in). We sat up there most of the day to supervise people who wanted to use the field for practice. Saturday many went to tracking while others of us waiting at the field. We had food for sale in case anyone came back early. The field was open for practice all day so we had to be there to supervise for that too. Then we did helper try outs and the Regional meeting. The meeting was quite different then any other club meetins I’ve been to. Nate asked if I would bring Vada on Saturday so he could use her to try out. She loved it and he did a great job with her. He got picked to work the back half of the SchH3s and he did a great job! Saturday night Karl and I went out to dinner ourselves. I wasn’t feeling very good from being out in the sun all day but eating helped. I was exhausted from doing nothing all day but having to chat with people – it’s not that I don’t enjoy it but it sucks the energy out of me. Sunday was fun. It was obedience and protection at the trial field. We had alot of people come and watch. Some I had never met and some I hadn’t seen in a long time. I updated the club website with scores from obedience and protection as they were announced. That was fun. Others who can’t attend appreciated know the results right away too. Mom stopped by for a few hours on Sunday to see me too. And Copper and Vada. She said she enjoyed watching the trial too. It was nice to be able to visit with her. Seems we’re over due to get together for dinner again.
Karl was super busy all weekend at home. He got all of the flooring laid in the Library! It looks GREAT!
Tonight is the 1st of 3 classes on Conditioning the Performance Dog that I have Copper signed up for at Stone Mountain. I’m looking forward to learning alot. I hope they do ball work too so I can get him started on his ball. Class is every other Monday as they give us homework to work on for 2 weeks.