Thursday, August 5, 2010

Hot, Humid, Windy Track again today...

This picture is 'out of sequence' and I give up trying to insert it in the right place. I forgot to include it to begin with, and the last time I tried to 'fix' this problem, I lost everything and had to do it over. Being on the worlds slowest dial-up here, I am just leaving it! So...this picture should be the second one. Blast had overshot the second corner, quickly showing loss of scent and circled first to the right. Not finding scent there, he zipped around, ran back to the left, and picked up the track doing the 'head snap' which we all love to see.
Well, I'm sure sick and tired of these lousy tracking conditions. Once again today, last night, and again this evening, we were supposed to get rain, and it all just went on by us. It's not fair to the dogs to age tracks a "normal" time, as it's way too difficult for them to work in these conditions, and just not safe, I don't think.
Went out very early this morning and did a track for Trust and left the camera in the van. She did very well. This is Blasts' track which we did on our way home (TD) and only aged it 20 mins. By the time I laid this track it was terribly hot and humid. Blast had been drinking fine and we were parked in a shady area, so he was raring to go. He actually did a really nice track, and had me running (oh, joy!) a good part of it. I probably took about 30 pictures with partial body parts of him, and surprised I even got these half decent ones.

This was his first corner. This was a nice field and not as dead and dry as many we've been working on.

Here he has just made his third turn and has a lovely deep nose in the track.

I just realized I got these pictures, as they were corners, and so he was not working or running along the legs of the tracks. So this is another corner above, very nice.

And....stopped!!!! at his article waiting for me to come up. Good boy, Blast!

He's bringing the glove to me to play; I will remove his harness first. We did a few throws/retrieves, then he spied the hay bales and jumped up on a few of them on the way back to the van.

On my way to town today......

This is a 'Least Bittern' that "walked" across the road in front of me today. When he got to this side of the road he just gave me the evil eye for a while before flying a few feet over behind the weeds and into a drainage ditch. We often hear these from the little creek that runs through our property....very strange "gallumping" sound. We rarely see them, so this was kind of neat.

I just thought this was a pretty scene. I so miss my horse. I just love to watch them when I have the opportunity. There are many in our area, a few boarding stables, and the Amish horses, which these ones are.