Bryce and Jayda ended up a nice season with a CPE trial up in our training building.

We did very well – Bryce Q’d 8 out of 10 runs, finishing his level 3 titles and moving into level 5 in Colors. Jayda Q’d in a very respectable 6 out of 10 runs, including the last run she needed to “graduate” from level 1. She missed 2 other Q’s (and the chance to finish her L2 standard title) by just a step – not qui-i-i-te making it out of the last tunnel in time in Jackpot and just missing the A-frame contact in Standard. That last was odd because she never misses contacts – I was watching her closely the next training session and even when I crossed in front (which I had done on that run) she was well into the yellow. Oh well – one of those things.

Not a bad way to end the season, and I was happy to be able to run my dogs at all, since I was running on a broken toe from about 10 days earlier!

Here’s Bryce with his Level Completion ribbon – its bigger than he is! Jayda got one too but was in no mood for posing – she insisted on sitting with legs in all directions, stuck her ears out to the side and pulled a face at me. Didn’t make for as nice a picture!

Skyline knows how to treat their exhibitors :)! We also know how to feed our workers – our secret is having a club member who’s a caterer. While other clubs survive on coldcuts and pizza, we have gourmet salads, multiple choice of hot dishes like sausage and peppers, eggplant rollantini, turkey tettrazini or chicken marsala, and fresh-baked white chocolate chunk cookies, lemon bars and chocolate cookies with peanut butter filling for dessert. Yum!

We have NO trouble recruiting help at our trials :)!

So now we have a break for the holidays. Jayda is going to get spayed so it won’t be all that pleasant a break for her. Then we start again with a couple of indoor CPE trials next year.