We got to babysit Ammon last night. We had him at Paul’s since my house is small and my dogs seem a bit less tolerant of 3 year olds in a place where they have no space to escape! Plus Paul has this fabulous tree house that Ammon just loves!
We had a lot of fun and the dogs were great with Ammon. Leon even let Ammon pretend to ride him like a horse while he was laying down. He was such a good boy and got up and moved when he was done. Ammon had fun playing laser pointer with the maniac dogs too!
It was a fun night!
Marley and Dyl were searching all night for little droppings from the apricot tree. Apparently dogs think they taste good..
Ammon had lots of fun in the tree house!
So did Ammon’s Bear…
Leon didn’t love it when Paul went up to the treehouse. He waited and waited and waited for his Daddy to come down…
This is where Paul and My dogs are while I am stuck at work. I’m so lucky to have such a great boyfriend that cares enough to take my dogs out with him. But I want to go play in the desert too!!! Guess I should just be grateful that Dylan and Marley are out playing while I am working. They could be stuck in the house all day!!
My tenants had a garden last summer and I loved it. It was so nice to walk 10 feet and pick a tomato or a zucchini for dinner! It definitely helped me eat healthier too!
Since my tenants that planted the garden moved, I decided to take it on myself this year. I’ve never really kept a houseplant alive so a garden is a huge task! So far so good though! I planted peas a few weeks ago. They are doing well and have blossoms. I also bought some strawberries a few weeks ago but haven’t planted them yet. They already have strawberries growing. I need to get them in the ground ASAP! That will have to happen tomorrow!
This weekend I planted Marigolds to keep the bugs out. I also planted Tomatoes, Zuchinni, Crookneck Yellow Squash, Onions, Butternut Squash, Banana Squash, and three kinds of peppers. I am not a fan of peppers but my current tenants made a special request so I planted them!!
I still need to finish weeding the back corner and get the strawberries planted but hopefully I will have some success with all these plants! I actually kind of enjoyed digging around in the dirt this weekend. I need to remind myself that its not soo bad and get out and do some flowers in the flowerbeds or something too.
I got fried yesterday. It wasn’t so hot so I didn’t realize I was burning when I was out weeding and planting! Oh well, it should turn brown in a day or two!
Look at my wonderful girl. She may not be the fastest dog in the world but she definitely knows how to do her job! I couldn’t be more proud. I’m so thrilled with this photo. It will be getting framed for sure!!
Thanks R3K9S for the taking picture and Cynthia for providing the camera!
I love outdoor tournaments! I like soaking up some sun and spending my days outdoors. A lot of people whine about dogs running slower on grass but my focus is that Dylan and I both have a good time. If we aren’t enjoying ourselves why the hell are we playing flyball right? I enjoy indoor tournaments but I really really love hanging outside. Especially this weekend in St George with the Red Mountain Backdrops. Who really cannot appreciate that?
Fresh back from a weekend in St George. I was so beat up yesterday I spent the day recovering. The Major Highlights from the weekend include my Little Miss Marley…
She’s such a beauty and such a wonderful dog. She has hardly any drive to play flyball so I pulled her out years ago. Her issues with her back and hip make it risky anyway. It’s not worth it. We decided, however, that it would be fun for her to run one race and get a title! I registered her CRN Friday night and our Club Owner put her on as a sub for Sunday. The first title dogs get in NAFA is easy and can be acheived with one completed race under 24 seconds. Unfortunately we didn’t actually accomplish that. We ran 3/3 and only ran clean once. Our clean run wasn’t under 24 seconds since the team was already a slower one and Marley isn’t nearly as fast as Dylan. She did her job and got on the box with all four paws too. She did bobble the ball on the clean team run but the other two she did lots better! What a great little girl! She was even barking in the line up and was very excited to get racing. Maybe if she didn’t have injuries preventing her from playing - she would really be able to develop some competitive drive.
Her fastest time was about 6.5 seconds. Not the fastest dog out there but I could tighten it up with a better pass. I was sooo proud of her. She hasn’t even run at a practice for several months. I ocassionally let her run once or twice just so she can show off!! She does love to show off a bit.
Here is a video of her clean run:
Marley is now officially a retired flyball dog. She’s successfully competed and earned a whopping 5 points in NAFA. She’s not a racer but she loves tournaments. She gets to spend 24 hours a day with me and I love it as much as she does.
Some other noteworthy stuff from the weekend.
Dylan got injured Saturday. I am not really sure if it was a new injury or an old injury from the run in with the fence post a few weeks ago. The Acu-massage therapist from Hearts o’Fire said his right rear leg is really tight so I am rubbing it and using hot compresses the next few days. Hopefully that’s all he will need to heal up!
He raced on the injury and did pretty well. It broke my heart to race him but he didn’t have a choice. Our multi breed team didn’t have a sub that was a different breed than him. I vote for always having a sub that is a different breed than every dog on the team if we are going to run Multibreed. It doesn’t make sense to only have border collies and jacks as subs if there are already border collies and jacks on the team. Any dog can get injured and I hate the idea that any dog would have to run on an injury. Other people don’t agree.
Sunday he seemed to be doing much better….After a night full of bananas, ice and heat, and arnica cream. He raced well but was bobbling on the box all day. He doesn’t bobble nearly as often as he did this weekend so I think that his turn may have been a bit off because of the injury.
We got some great shots from a photographer there. My friends also took some and I can’t wait for their pics!!
Here are the photographers shots of the Dyl Pickle!
Some other fun pics from the weekend…
Dylan on ice in the hotel…..
Hanging out at the tournament site:
Flyball dogs love to Tug!
We had a great time hanging and traveling with our friends from Tiptail
Chase is my cuddle buddy at the hotel. Dylan got to run free with him and Tatum and they did great together!!
Tatum is a collie princess.
Overall it was a pretty good weekend! We can’t wait for the next one but it will likely not be until fall!!
This is a really old picture but I have always loved it. He’s just such a cute boy and this pic makes me just want to lean over and kiss him.
I took Dylan into the vet on Friday. He had some thermal imaging done so we could see if there were any sore spots from the injury last week. The thermography came back looking good in his hind end but there was a hotspot on his left shoulder. And oddly, there was a hotspot in the middle of the length of his tail. He’s had a hotspot there before and I cannot figure out why. He whacks his tail on everything and a hotspot on the tip is not abnormal but in the middle is a bit odd.
My vet did a chiropractic adjustment on him. She said his right shoulder was pretty tight because he’s been compensating for the soreness in the left shoulder. She adjusted both and he actually let out a tiny little noise when he adjusted one of his ribs. I swear this dog wants to appear so strong that he does a great job of hiding when he is in pain. That adjustment really must of hurt but all we heard was a squeek like it came from a tiny mouse!
His neck had some major adjustments which were also likely from the impact last week. But overall, he seems to have healed up pretty well!
We got to talk a bit about his itching and biting behaviors. I am still journaling them when I notice. She said to double his fish oil for now and see if that helps. He may just have dry itchy skin. So hopefully we will see some improvement.
He also has some new spots appearing on his nose and in his ears. I asked the vet to take a glance at them to see if its something that needs checked out more thoroughly. She said they were just age spots? Kind of like freckles for dogs. It’s supposedly pretty common in dogs of his coloring and I can expect to see more as this boy ages. My heart aches when I think about him actually getting older. I can’t imagine him turning into an old dog!!
Dylan did get a few runs in yesterday at the Course a’Lure. He’s learned that he can jump out of the course at the end so he’s not finishing his runs. The first and only run he finished was an 11.87. That’s not too bad and he came home with a gold medal! He wasn’t as fast as our friend Sneek who ran an 11.6! It was her first time at CAL and we were sooo excited to see her run so fast!!
Anyway, we are hoping he does okay for the tournament this coming weekend! He seems to be doing well overall!
The first Course A’Lure event of the year and we are ecstatic! Unfortunately, I have to work all day Saturday but we can get some lure coursing in Sunday before Flyball. Dylan seems to be recovering from his recent injury so I am pretty sure he will be fine to run. We see the vet this afternoon so we’ll follow her directions of course!
We shoudl invite Sadie! She loves it!
Marley isn’t a fan but she’ll run through for a photo op anyway!
