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Thursday, September 12, 2013

Weather the weather??????

          We have had such a nice summer in the Pacific Northwest this year.  Lots of summer sunshine, but is too much of a good thing finally over?  We had one heck of a thunder and lightning storm last week--it lasted for hours!  If we have any thunder storms they normally last maybe three hours, but this one overstayed its welcome by a lot.  I am lucky to have German Pinschers that seem to ignore the booms and flashes for the most part, though we were all a little worried when the storm was right on top of us.  Our biggest dog, our old Lab named Honey is truly afraid of the thunder and lightning, and stays in the whole time those storms are here.  The best thing was that I was home, and the power stayed on the whole time, a lot of the area was dark at least overnight.   Yesterday we had a near 100 degree day, but the dogs have their cool dog room, and lots of cool water and shade in their yard-- after their morning run all they had to do was lounge around all the rest of the day.
           I am hoping to get back to some performance work with the dogs this fall.  I am on a regular schedule with my job, but it includes weekends.  That means Saturday classes are out, and even going to dog shows on weekends, too.  Maybe I will find a class that is during the week on one of my days off,  otherwise I will just have to continue to train at home for now.