finally TRAINING TIME!

Finally got some training time in today.  Friend of mine built a barn, not huge but perfect to work almost full courses.  It is perfect for what we need right now.  Took both dogs which of course meant stella screaming at the top of her lungs while I worked but with help, she got a little better by the end.  She sounds like a seal being clubbed (not that i have ever witnessed that but that is the sound i would think they would make).  We worked two different courses, a more wide open course with two sets of weaves and lots of options and then a snooker type course.  Both were challenging and fun and it was so nice to knock the rust off.  We are planning on doing this on a weekly basis and I am hoping to see improvement in both stella and deuce.  Got to work some decel/accel drills and some collection drills along with of course some snooker drills.  Still really missing having a world class instructor there but we as a group were able to help each other with options.  Even got to modify the course, knock the bars down to 12 inches and work our puppies.  Stella did amazingly well for not having a ton of work done.  We just did tunnels and jumps but man was it fun.  Stella did her first 270 and her first threadle.  Man it is nice to have a dog that is a little more handler focused than deuce.  Sometimes it is too much but we can work on that. We also got a lot of stay practice in since the last tricks class was spent most of time trying to fix our broken stays and less on tricks. Now i have two very tired aussies at my feet!  Man I love training!