Sophie and Lili's Mom
12-19-2005, 12:59 AM
It was a stressful week for us. My mother's sister died. My husband had a code release at midnight Friday night AND one of his support people accidently deleted 400,000 lines of data... This caused us to miss the Saturday Field Trial and I considered skipping Sunday too so that there would be a little less stress, but 1) I really wanted to go 2) I needed to pick something up from Karen and 3) I needed to drop something off for another participant...so at 6 on Friday night we left Austin for the hotel in Brenham (closest hotel to the grounds with internet and Michael had to do some more work). After he was done working we played around a bit on the laptops and suddenly it was 2 am. We quickly hit the hay but in the next hour, the fire alarm went off twice. Ugh! Then the 5 am wakeup call came far too quickly. We drug ourselves out of bed, checked out and headed for the grounds. We arrived before 7 (a requirement). We sat out in 40ish degree cold for roll call and bracing. Then they ran the trial. They ran Dogs first ( the dogs are referred to Dogs and Bitches, which is correct terminology). We were totally slackers and instead of going and beating for the Dogs, we went back to the car and napped for a couple hours. Finally around 11 they started Bitches. We hit the field to wait for our Braces to run (Sophie was in Brace 5 and Lili was in Brace 7). The girls ran in their respective Brace but we are not seasoned enough to have had an idea how good they might have done. So, since they do not announce any of this until the end of the Stake, we stayed on the field until the OAAB Stake was ready for Second Series. All we wanted was for the girls to have fun (and they did) and we were considering this practice for the rest of the season. Well we got an exciting surprise. Lili was called back in First Place and First Brace and Sophie was called back in Third Place and Second Brace. Lili did fabulous in her Second Series Brace but I fell and distracted Sophie during her Second Series Brace. The end result of the Field Trial for us was...
In her first ever placement... LILI GOT FIRST PLACE in OAAB STAKE!!!!
http://www.weareb.org/~penny/Dogs/Field%20Trials%2012-18-05/Lili%201at%2012-18-051.jpg
http://www.weareb.org/~penny/Dogs/Field%20Trials%2012-18-05/Lili%201at%2012-18-052.jpg
and
In her third time to place SOPHIE GOT FOURTH PLACE in OAAB STAKE (her other two placements were also Fourth).
http://www.weareb.org/~penny/Dogs/Field%20Trials%2012-18-05/Sophie%204th%2012-18-05.jpg
In short (ok...not so short) we are thrilled. The girls had fun which in itself is thrilling and the ribbons are a bonus! We are so proud (as it really is all about what they can do, we have never trained) and all of us are on Cloud 9! Well, they are currently sleeping on the cloud but they deserve it.
Karen has her own report she needs to make...
In her first ever placement... LILI GOT FIRST PLACE in OAAB STAKE!!!!
http://www.weareb.org/~penny/Dogs/Field%20Trials%2012-18-05/Lili%201at%2012-18-051.jpg
http://www.weareb.org/~penny/Dogs/Field%20Trials%2012-18-05/Lili%201at%2012-18-052.jpg
and
In her third time to place SOPHIE GOT FOURTH PLACE in OAAB STAKE (her other two placements were also Fourth).
http://www.weareb.org/~penny/Dogs/Field%20Trials%2012-18-05/Sophie%204th%2012-18-05.jpg
In short (ok...not so short) we are thrilled. The girls had fun which in itself is thrilling and the ribbons are a bonus! We are so proud (as it really is all about what they can do, we have never trained) and all of us are on Cloud 9! Well, they are currently sleeping on the cloud but they deserve it.
Karen has her own report she needs to make...