Back to Work

Well the celebration from a good job at Sonoma is over.

It is back to work cleaning up those things that still need cleaning and polishing those that need polishing. Plus learning a new thing or two.

The wind was howling in Campo today making it hard to be heard at a distance. Perfect for practicing at a distance.

We started with outruns and fetch on a tricky group of rambouillet's that wanted to pull heavy to one side trading with Sally Douglas and Trapper. Piper took her first couple outruns nice and wide and deep and her fetches were generally pretty good even though the sheep kept trying to push over her and off line. After a few outruns she got a bit lazy and started to flatten out so I set her up and got the timing right on a good "get out" on the away side and this was better.

Driving was generally OK today but not great. She did some good stuff and some not so good stuff. The cross driving was generally better and the driving generally got better during the day. On our last cross drive the sheep wanted to drop anchor. This was the same group that made her turn tail a few weeks ago and she was not walking on. She wasn't turning like before but still not walking on. I gave her a "hit it. hit it. hit it." and she did. YEAH !! Moving sheep again.

We also snuck in a bit of shedding practice today. Piper is getting the concept pretty well. It's me that has the problem of getting in her way and not leading the drive off. I think by the time we need a shed we should have one.

Anyway only 2 weeks til Deer Creek and I want to have her ready.