Training Season

Day 6 of branch sculpture.  The Prisoner (cat) for scale.

Friday morning, I was invited to run along with the foster grand kiddo on May 3rd.  It's the Mayor's run.  Only a mile, but I don't want to embarrass the FGC!  Another training motivation!

I fell off the blog writing cliff again.  Days full, plans changing, weather varying, and I've not been "at the keyboard".

The first session for field training for Ember has been penciled in for Monday the 31st.  I rescheduled her groom to April 8th.  She has the vet coming up on April Fool's day, for her Bordetella squirt up the nose.  I'll have them look at a couple places on her coat that I think might be harness rubs, and I plan to ask about nutrition as with Spring come allergies if her prior issues were related to the grass and things in it.

Ember will have her vet visit on Tuesday, Daycare on Wednesday and Thursday, while I do human things (financial dude and personal trainer).

Saturday's precipitation had enough gaps in it to allow for a leash walk.  The sidewalks were a bit on the wet side, but the temperature was mild so I took her out.  Unfortunately, toward the end of the walk, she spotted a work glove in the street, and I was not braced to expect her pulling for it, so I did get dragged to the street while she fetched the glove and refused to negotiate its release with me.  So, I let her proudly carry her prize across the street to our house, and negotiated once we were in our own kitchen.  

Then I posted the photo of the glove on NextDoor just in case someone really knows their glove is missing and wants it back.  It's a good leather work glove, I'm thinking probably belongs to a trash collector, so chances are not good that they would happen across my notice and respond to arrange to get it back, but at least I tried.

Later in the day we had a little accident in the basement.  I did not discover it until Sunday morning, so it probably happened during the extra time I let her be uncrated and she did not choose to go outside.  The weather cleared in the evening and Ember did spend some time out on the deck, just chilling.  She likes to do that, just watch the world go by.  I have yet to put the deck chairs out, as we keep having these chilly snaps.

The foster grand has soccer games every Sunday afternoon through May.  I got a message from DIL that the Y has cancelled the afternoon's soccer game due to weather conditions.  But the nap schedule is such that I don't think I'll be able to make it to the Purim Spiel that my niece is participating in this afternoon.  Like her father before her, she's playing the part of a villain.  They are more fun, according to him.

Sunday morning, I took the time to review the candidates and issue on the ballot and fill out my mail-in ballot.  

It being a chilly and drizzly day, I coaxed Ember into the car after she got up from puppy nap #1, and we drove over to the election commission to drop the ballot off.  Primary voted!

Since she was such a good little girl, I took her through the coffee drive thru and got her a doggy treat.  Without the whipped cream, just a milk bone, really, but it's special because this particular treat she only gets at the coffee drive-thru.  She got her full cup pup on Friday.

When we got home, I let her go explore the back yard, we tossed a few balls to retrieve, etc., but when it started to come down as a steady drizzle, came inside and curled up on the couch to old episodes of Murder, She Wrote.

By the way, puppy communications to mom?  When I came upstairs while she was crated for puppy nap #1, she barked.  Did she need to go out?  Nope!  She wanted me to change the TV channel to the Dog TV music, which is her nap-time program!  LOL!  After I did that, she settled down to properly nap.

Couch napping here.

Life is good, even with all the uncertainty in the world.  Trying to focus on just what's in front of me, one day at a time, and live that life, best can do.  Spark on, my friends!