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Wednesday, August 26th

We started our morning at 6am. Breakfast, then I exercised my dogs while Dan loaded his dogs and horses.

We drove about 20 minutes to a CRP section that was surrounded with Alfalfa.

We saddled the horses and turned out Merle. He ran a good race and handled much better than he has for us. He ran into a nice flock of chickens at the end and chased them as far as he could.

Next we ran Cash. He also ran well and handled. I am really pleased with his progress. He is going to turn out.

We ran Click after that with one of Dan’s dogs. Click’s brace mate won it hands down, but Click had a real nice find in the end. Not bad for his first real work in 6 months.

Dan ran a real nice dog out of Funseeker’s Rebel named Jim. He had at least 3 or 4 nice finds and was real solid on his birds.

Next we ran Sage. He put on quite the show. Five or six very solid pieces of bird work.

We ran Wizard next. He ran really well. I look forward to seeing him later in the season.

Stud had a good run and stayed in range he handled well and had one nice find. Ran with a dog of Wls that looked good.

It was starting to warm up but some clouds rolled in and we worked Richard. He ran well but was a little too interested in the other dog.

Dan ran a really nice female named Whippoorwill’s Wild Thang. She is going to make a really nice dog. She’s super tough and classy.

Headed back in for lunch and a quick nap. I’ll run Brandy after it cools down.

Had a good nap.

Ran Brandy. She did well and kept up with me. She took off a few times but came back after a bit. She started making a few good casts.

Ran Boo. She started out real sticky from the remote collar on her flank. After a few times of dragging her forward, she started to run.

We hit a water tank that had a bunch of dove. She chased them and started to hunt.

She turned with me and handled very well. I think we can make some progress with her this fall.

I took Em on a one mile walk in the roading harness. She is recovering well from her TPLO surgery.

I am real sore from 6 hours of riding horses.  I need to do it more often to keep that from happening.