Ugh, late again
I’m late, i know. I got distracted with garden cleanup and my birthday. Important stuff first.
Molly is doing well. I’ve worked her a few times since the last post and she seems to be getting the hang of the cross drive. I’m getting farther (like feet, not yards) away from the sheep and she’s controlling the heads more from the appropriate location. The little things in life.
Simon is oddly busy, but i don’t think he realizes it. I’ve been steathfuly working on obedience commands as part of the FB 2010-Year of the CD Challenge. A CD title is the first most basic title in ASCA obedience trials. His long sits are becoming more consistent and his heel-work is better. He still gets distracted by grass he’s not peed on, though he’s up to every 3rd blade instead of every single blade. We need to start adding distractions soon. He’s also starting to work ducks on line. He seems confused that they don’t flock like sheep. For instance when he’s coming up the middle of the arena and pushes on the sweetspot a little too hard they fan out. He *thinks* about diving in out of frustration, but then looks back at me like i’m doing it as part of an elaborate joke. So far, no squishing though. Think good thoughts for us.
On other stuff… i’m currently teaching myself MySQL & PHP – which has been interesting/frustrating. My goal is to eventually redo the ASC of WA events page so that each event can have one or more people assigned to make changes to their own events. So as an example for the April Showers event, I could have edit privileges as could Bob – the Course Director and Michelle – our paperwork Goddess. More importantly, this would allow people to add and edit their own events, when and how they’d like them to appear. Lisa could log in, add her event and would never have added a line about cattle – oops - and update the judges for Lakebay (that i will add tonight, but see where i’m going with this since i’ve not done it yet?).
Don’t get too excited. In a perfect world this *might* be ready for the 2011 schedule. However it’s an exciting project and would be the beta project for redoing NWDog.
Comments