Monday, June 22, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
fun exercise
Played Tennis tonight at the park. very first time since....high school on a real court. Wii sports does not qualify. fun, 1 hour in of true cardio!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
BIG BLUE gone...
Sold big blue today, Robbie came over, I got new batteries warantee replacement at costco 175.55 he started right up, the big strong brute , gentleman that he was. Gonna be towing a bass boat from now on, good life, better than sitting in the yard waiting for another day. End of an era fitting its on a Memorial Day weekend. no bow shoots just sittin in the front yard rusting out.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
198 and change
198 and change Hoover back home after a night in the kennel at his Doctors place. Salivary Gland laceration, with infection. no foxtail in the lung! PTL, he's a ok except his mental status of having to sleep in Oakdale one more night.
Watched biggest loser tonight, rode my bike 20 minutes, and worked the bow on each side to pass the time. why is it so hard to exercise but its so easy to internet site to site?
Bb back from UK filled stores, and guess what ms E joined her, and made a play forher bro. certainly shades of RS is you tell me so, perhaps that is why she understood him so well too.
save the naive from themselves but then again the Lord did say the meek shall inherit the earth. hmmm maybe meek and naive are different animals.
Watched biggest loser tonight, rode my bike 20 minutes, and worked the bow on each side to pass the time. why is it so hard to exercise but its so easy to internet site to site?
Bb back from UK filled stores, and guess what ms E joined her, and made a play forher bro. certainly shades of RS is you tell me so, perhaps that is why she understood him so well too.
save the naive from themselves but then again the Lord did say the meek shall inherit the earth. hmmm maybe meek and naive are different animals.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
another Vet bill
Last saturday it was a fox tail removal 240.00 and then 3 days at Loo 84.00, and now there's this kind of 2nd tongue thing I saw it as Loo lifted him off her truck, and then he was so warm, before he ran, and not really overly friendly.
Today we saw it again after he ran 6 blinds. Had a hard time eating his dinner, Loo said he didn't really eat at her place either.
Feelings are it happen when they knocked him out during fox tail removal, or he got in a fence fight at Loo's. Internet research says its a salivary mucocele, impacted salivary gland, surgery is the answer. H's tongue is blue after running, On Monday gotta get him in.
sure feel bad for him. making him run all those trainings and be sick.
Today we saw it again after he ran 6 blinds. Had a hard time eating his dinner, Loo said he didn't really eat at her place either.
Feelings are it happen when they knocked him out during fox tail removal, or he got in a fence fight at Loo's. Internet research says its a salivary mucocele, impacted salivary gland, surgery is the answer. H's tongue is blue after running, On Monday gotta get him in.
sure feel bad for him. making him run all those trainings and be sick.
Friday, May 1, 2009
San Jose Retriever Club qual
TGIF been waiting on this day to try my luck at the field trial, try my luck, geez sure wish I would of found a pile of that stuff somewhere today. Must of been all used up when we got moved down from the first spot of the day to the big 19. Ok enough of the pity party, lets, list the positive things.
Hoover got 3 days of kenneling at Lou's and 3 days of training, enough to find out he has a thing about not getting in the water, they call that being a cheat. Labrador adultery. Ok I get back on the positive wagon. He got some routine back into his life.
Today you learned more about really holding him to the sit and mark that spot, no NOT that spot but this spot. And don't you think you can fool me, I only want you to look at that spot. now do it.
He was over heated, and you didn't do anything about it before he ran, and then he ran out of steam.
He did an ok flyer mark had a bit of hunt within 10 yds of it on either side. He did a good, job on the easy memory bird. Ran at the gun and them put the angle in as he approached the gun, He didn't run to the gun and make a left 90. He showed he was thinking.
The next memory bird the long retired one, inthe bank of yellow mustard grass. There was the big mound in between that spot That Carl told Judy who told me stir em to the left of that or they will back side the gunners. Judy pulled Bella the best she thought and she still back sided the gun, So I pull him more, and I got more, more into the wrong direction. Way to Way, and h e took the line and established a hunt in nowhere near the mark and gave up, POPPED. I gave it the college try of waiting out the pop, Hoover wasn't interested. NOTE to self, Popping isn't as bad a thing in qual as it is in Master. only a minor fault. Next time, if there is one, do some feet shuffling, you know how well he takes casts with your legs try that before hitting the whistle.
I called him back in, he came tongue and sides heaving, Cal said he admired me trying to pull him as other dogs had back sided the guns, but perhaps you pulled to much. I didn't check back to see if the spine was aligned up. In fact I didn't do much besides the process Christy told me too. It was a mechanical form of dancing by the numbers, I didn't have any soul.
Talked to Dick Ellis, he said it takes to time to get soul. Dennis said he feeds on the adrendline rush this brings.
You teach and teach and when test day comes its anything goes, and see if you can survive. You need to forget the blue ribbon, or any ribbon. and just concentrate on the fundementals that got you here. Hoover forged on the matt, you felt like he was too wide, you gave him the here command and YOU didn't take steps back. Timing. comes with practice and respect. It wasn't there today.
Judges Cal Cadmus, Mike Moore
triple with go bird flyer up the middle and deep, right hand bird short, left hand bird medium with a retired gun.
land blind placed between the short bird and the flyer station.
double water blind, short land to a needle wide opening of tules into a channel up on land bird.
return long land run to water and a point, that you had to take, then over into a channel 20 yds to shore and bird
Water series:
Did I say it was raining, it was
LONG retired bird up the middle, Land, water land, water....long water, and then about 130 yds of land.
shore Left hand bird on land, small scallop piece of water better get in,
right hand bird behind some tules, guns sitting
and a flyer thrown just as you start to go for the far right bird, this flyer kind of makes it a flower pot, and its to the left to right. about 30 ft between the 2 gunner stations. All throws were square, flat/
first place JO Tripete, 2nd Dennis H Iceman 3 dog 14, 4th Judy & Bella, RJ Moon's Sister, 20, 7, 21 jams. 24 dogs started, and 11 were taken to the last series.
Hoover got 3 days of kenneling at Lou's and 3 days of training, enough to find out he has a thing about not getting in the water, they call that being a cheat. Labrador adultery. Ok I get back on the positive wagon. He got some routine back into his life.
Today you learned more about really holding him to the sit and mark that spot, no NOT that spot but this spot. And don't you think you can fool me, I only want you to look at that spot. now do it.
He was over heated, and you didn't do anything about it before he ran, and then he ran out of steam.
He did an ok flyer mark had a bit of hunt within 10 yds of it on either side. He did a good, job on the easy memory bird. Ran at the gun and them put the angle in as he approached the gun, He didn't run to the gun and make a left 90. He showed he was thinking.
The next memory bird the long retired one, inthe bank of yellow mustard grass. There was the big mound in between that spot That Carl told Judy who told me stir em to the left of that or they will back side the gunners. Judy pulled Bella the best she thought and she still back sided the gun, So I pull him more, and I got more, more into the wrong direction. Way to Way, and h e took the line and established a hunt in nowhere near the mark and gave up, POPPED. I gave it the college try of waiting out the pop, Hoover wasn't interested. NOTE to self, Popping isn't as bad a thing in qual as it is in Master. only a minor fault. Next time, if there is one, do some feet shuffling, you know how well he takes casts with your legs try that before hitting the whistle.
I called him back in, he came tongue and sides heaving, Cal said he admired me trying to pull him as other dogs had back sided the guns, but perhaps you pulled to much. I didn't check back to see if the spine was aligned up. In fact I didn't do much besides the process Christy told me too. It was a mechanical form of dancing by the numbers, I didn't have any soul.
Talked to Dick Ellis, he said it takes to time to get soul. Dennis said he feeds on the adrendline rush this brings.
You teach and teach and when test day comes its anything goes, and see if you can survive. You need to forget the blue ribbon, or any ribbon. and just concentrate on the fundementals that got you here. Hoover forged on the matt, you felt like he was too wide, you gave him the here command and YOU didn't take steps back. Timing. comes with practice and respect. It wasn't there today.
Judges Cal Cadmus, Mike Moore
triple with go bird flyer up the middle and deep, right hand bird short, left hand bird medium with a retired gun.
land blind placed between the short bird and the flyer station.
double water blind, short land to a needle wide opening of tules into a channel up on land bird.
return long land run to water and a point, that you had to take, then over into a channel 20 yds to shore and bird
Water series:
Did I say it was raining, it was
LONG retired bird up the middle, Land, water land, water....long water, and then about 130 yds of land.
shore Left hand bird on land, small scallop piece of water better get in,
right hand bird behind some tules, guns sitting
and a flyer thrown just as you start to go for the far right bird, this flyer kind of makes it a flower pot, and its to the left to right. about 30 ft between the 2 gunner stations. All throws were square, flat/
first place JO Tripete, 2nd Dennis H Iceman 3 dog 14, 4th Judy & Bella, RJ Moon's Sister, 20, 7, 21 jams. 24 dogs started, and 11 were taken to the last series.
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