Hannah in Masters

Here is Hannah in her first ever Masters Jumping trial. We were at Gawler on a warm day which is not good for us, but we were on early so that was a bonus. Hannah did well, but unfortunately got a few things wrong. When we checked the video, had Hannah got everything right the first time she would have made the time. The photo shows Hannah clearing the one jump I got wrong, (Keith said "Out" as I approached, so I went Out, not my fault).
The other runs of the day went quite well but the heat slowed us down. I was less than a second over time on Agility and by the end of the afternoon neither of us were interested in running anywhere.
The video shows me running into the tunnel and walking out at the other end. It was hotter than a really hot place inside the tunnel, and there were 8 metres of it too, no wonder the dogs slowed down at the end of it.
We will be going south next week, the weather forecast says it will be cooler so hopefully we will do better.

Hannah, JDX.

Yesterday, Hannah added another title to her name, she is now a Jumping Dog Excellent. The pic shows her clearing the hoop jump on her way to her title. In the morning run she was less than one second over time but went clear of course faults, then in the afternoon she made it with plenty of time to spare. Hannah also passed in Agility Excellent in the afternoon, so now she needs 2 more passes to get her ADX title.
After the trial we went to see Molly and had dinner with her. The day was long and we were both very glad to get into bed last night.

Back Home

We are home at last. We went out into the garden and almost disappeared!  You can only just see Hannah in the long grass that is our back lawn. We sent Keith out straight away to sort this out. It took him three goes with the lawn mower before he got it down to a reasonable level. It is still not right and will need another cut tomorrow when it has dried out.
Our trip to Queensland was worthwhile, Hannah got a Gambler Dog Title, I got my Rally Excellent title and we both got some qualification for other titles. We got to meet lots of other dogs and people, swam in lakes, ran and played in paddocks and visited lots of clubs. We have been to a restaurant for dinner with KnK for Kathy's birthday, climbed hills to Lookouts over the outback, visited a Tea factory and slept while Keith drove 12000 kilometres.

MacDonnell Ranges

Hannah and I are in Alice Springs for a week. We have been training for Agility and Rally with the Alice Springs Dog Club and have been on drives out to see the sights around Alice Springs.
The pic shows us at a lookout over the MacDonnell Ranges to the west of Alice Springs.
Good job KnK got the air con working, it has been over 30 Celsius most days since we have been here, and we don't take the heat very well at all.

Tourists in the Outback

Since we left Townsville we have been tourists. We stopped at Charters Towers where we posed for the pic from the lookout there. We had a night at Richmond where we went for a walk round the lake and a swim. Tiffany would not come out and when Keith went to get her, he slipped and fell in the lake with all his clothes on. We could not stop laughing all night. Next stop was Mt Isa where we barked at a man that climbed on the roof of the caravan to fix the air-conditioned. Lucky for us that he did because the next stop was the Barkly Homestead where it was hot and we needed the air con. Now we are in Tennant Creek having a days rest from traveling. Still hot and needing the air con so we can have our mid-afternoon nap in comfort. Moving on towards Alice Springs tomorrow.

Townsville Trials

The photo shows Hannah nailing the Scramble colour for 3 points on her way to her Gambler Dog Title at Townsville. She scored 25 points when she only needed 20 to get a 2nd place in the trial, and her 3rd GD Pass.
Hannah also got another JDX pass so she needs 1 more for her Jumping Dog Excellent Title.
I missed a Weaving pole in my ADM run, pulled out of the tunnel for my GDX run and Keith ran the wrong way for my JDM run so my Agility was three NQs. I did pass my first Rally Advanced/Excellent trials so only 9 more to go. Hannah also passed RAE which means she only has 6 to go.
In the Obedience, I did not do well in the heel work and lay down on the sit stay, but still got second place. At the end of the trial we managed 5 prizes, so we did not do too badly overall.

Atherton Trials

Look at us with our haul of prizes from the Atherton Trials over the weekend. Hannah passed her Rally Advanced and Excellent on both days to get two more RAE qualifications, both in 2nd place. I passed Rally Excellent in 1st place to get my RE title. Hannah then passed JDX on Sunday in 2nd Place. I passed Masters Agility in 1st place overall, then passed Masters Jumping in 4th place overall, 1st in 400 height. We got 2nd in SPDX, just 2 seconds over time, and we both got second and third places non qualifying to get some prizes. Hannah dropped a bar on one of her JDX runs and she was well under time for 2nd place, I lay down on a sit stay in Open Obedience so they gave me 3rd place, and we ended up with 9 prizes over the week end.
There were lots of dogs for us to meet, some were from last week in Cairns and some new ones too. Everybody made us welcome so we really enjoyed the whole week end. It was great to have the caravan on site so that we could have a sleep between runs in the cool of the caravan. We started at 8:am on Saturday and 7:am on Sunday and did not finish until about 10:pm Friday and Saturday. With those times we needed our nap times.