Luna TailAnxiety, Dogs, and Life

Well we are back! And I won’t be leaving town again for… oh, about two weeks. LOL. Until I go to Colorado again for agility with Chase. It will be fun.

These are a couple of pictures from camp. It was a lot of fun, but it was too windy, and too cold. Last night actually froze. My sister’s contacts froze in their case! And we ran out of propane and a few of the dogs were shivering in the trailer. Ugh. We tried to cover them up in blankets to keep them warm. My husband finally got up and started the car because it was just too cold. It got down to about 20 degrees.. maybe 17. It was just too cold last night.

So we have to make sure, next time, that we don’t run out of propane anymore! But going to Topaz Mountain might just be too cold in April, anyway. The spring is so hard for me to go camping because it’s agility season, and so I don’t have many weekends free. But I do love camping. I think the winds were up to 30 or 40 mph, which was awful. And cold. But this morning when we left, of course, it was up to 50 degrees, sunny, no wind, and would have been nice to stay. And on the way out we saw these Antelope. And they stayed still long enough for a couple of pictures.

We had a safe trip, didn’t need any travel health insurance, thank goodness. And the car came back with no dents!

I am still tired. A good thing to come back home to is, for sure, getting paid. Though I haven’t managed my checking accounts yet, or my savings accounts, to see how much money I have. I spent way too much on the trip. I started off good, and then I just blew it, so decided to just keep blowing it, which was probably a bad idea. Going out to dinner every night was a bit much. Even though it wasn’t every night. It was most nights.

The wine and beer were really good, though. And I’m starting to wake up. Tomorrow morning we are going camping, so I should have some fun pictures of camping. I hope so. Ugh. I’m still tired and I’m not making much sense.

I turned twitter off, since I won’t be getting phone service where we will be, either. Though I did kinda like the twitter posts!

Sigh… I miss camping. I’ve been doing so many dog things this summer that we haven’t been camping once. This is our popup trailer, isn’t it cute? It’s small, only 8 feet, but the Outback pulls it nicely and it really is cozy in there, especially with the heater.

I hope we can to up to the Uintah Mountains in August with the trailer. And get a break from the heat, too, even though I do love the heat. If you click on the thumbnail you can see a bigger picture. This was from last year, August 2006. I need more pictures from this year!

Day after camping is just too hard. LOL. I should take the day off. I’m half asleep today and not much worth at all. And I can’t speak, either.

The dogs had a great time camping. Chase and Lucy’s feet all got tender from the rocks and dirt I think, but they are doing okay. Levi was fine, but we practice agility on gravel every week. I think that makes his feet tougher.

I have 9 minutes left of work, and then I’m going to get my car washed because it’s nasty dirty. Then I’m going to go home, and take a nap, before dinner and bed. =D

I got a pack-a-pup tent for Levi for traveling to shows. Look how cute all three collies are in there! (Levi still doesn’t like Chase enough to pack into the tent with him.)

Tomorrow we are going camping to Topaz Mountain again. Pics will be forthcoming I am sure. I hope it doesn’t rain… too much. But it’ll be down in the desert so hopefully it will be dry and fairly warm. Good thing we have the heater in the trailer. I love that trailer.

I went back in to the doctor yesterday ’cause I am still feeling nasty. I hate being sick, I want to go running soon and I just have had zero energy. He gave me some new antibiotics, Biaxin, which are supposedly a broad range antiB for general nose/throat/ear ailments. I hope it works. I might even feel better today but I’m not sure I can tell after only 2 pills. (one pill twice a day; I’ve always wondered how you can take the same one pill twice a day, unless you tie a string to it and pull it back up to take it again.)

I took Chase to agility class on Wednesday night and after being in the crate for an hour he was very, very stressed. Poor guy. He will get better, I think I’m going to take him every week so he gets used to it more. He is terribly under socialized so I want to bring him out of his shell as much as possible, but I don’t want to push him too hard at the same time.

Levi did really good in class. He is such a sweetheart. And Lucy’s obedience practice is coming along really well, I think. I’m working on my footwork, pacing faster, and keeping her attention. She is so smart!