No such thing as a "day off"...

Today is Veteran's Day and since I work for a bank, our office was closed. But there was no enjoying this day off...our office moved to downtown Boise about two and a half weeks ago...and that puts a kink in my ability to schedule appointments during my lunch hour. I got up at my usual time, loaded up the dogs and was out of the house by 8am this morning. I headed out to Nampa for an orthodontist appointment (retainer checkup), then I went out to Dianne's for a lesson. Mo's outruns were very tight at the trial so we worked on outruns today. The first couple of attempts I sent her from a couple of feet behind me but I couldn't get enough pressure on her to kick out when she came in too close at the top, so I had to revert back to the beginning of learning outruns...being halfway between her and the sheep. From the middle, I was able to stop her and use my body pressure to get her kicked out when she started to come in too soon. After one good correction and response from her, the last two outruns and lifts during our first session were great. We even lengthened them quite a bit, with me still in about the middle. We took a break while Dianne worked May. Then we worked on outruns to the other side, the come-by side. She was much more hesistant in going to this side. It took a couple of tries and one good "get back, get outta that!", we got a beautiful come-by outrun and a calm, soft lift on the next run and then called it good. I then headed back to Meridian for a dentist appointment, a quick break for lunch, then a quick adjustment by my chiropractor before heading to Karen's for some agility practice. BARC's fall NADAC trial is this weekend so I was glad that Karen invited me over to practice. I went to a practice on Friday night, but all that was set up was a jumpers course so I was happy to be able to practice weave poles with Kip before the trial. I'm starting to see much more drive and focus from Kip at the weave poles. Once we were done with that, I headed back out to Nampa for a quick stop at the dog park before going to look at another house with my realtor. It's a great house in a nice small, quiet neighborhood with no back neighbors (except for the cows grazing...there's a privacy fence so they wouldn't be tempting the dogs) that the previous owner was working on getting some upgrades done...the master bedroom and another bedroom didn't have any floors, lol. The living room, a bedroom and bonus room all had Pergo flooring...I guess they didn't get it in the remaining bedrooms before the bank took the house back. Oh and I guess they really needed the light switch and electric outlet covers because they took them...all of them...and the light fixture that was in one of the bedrooms, lol. After I finally got home, got the dogs and myself fed, talked to my Mom and I was finally able to take a break. I popped in a movie and chilled. The dogs have konked out and I'm ready to join them. I'm sure I'll be blogging after the NADAC trial this weekend and if you're lucky (and I remember), I'll post videos of our runs.