T minus 17 weeks.

17 weeks.  17 weeks from today we will be arriving in Asheville, North Carolina and be checking into the hotel for the week of the ACD national specialty.  17 weeks may sound like a long time, but let's look at this.  This means there are 16 more weekends of work to be done.  Does that sound like a lot?  Um, no.  Here's what we need to cram in over the next 16 weekends:

1.  Herding lessons at least twice monthly.
2.  Advanced handling agility classes in Indy with Deb
3.  Agility trials (3 or 4) to finish the OAP, get some experience in Excellent A, and work on distance work.
4.  Obedience and Rally trials (1 or 2) to remind Tully how obedience/rally work.
5.  Practice sessions at Pawsitive Energy Agility  in Columbus to get Tully used to working in a dirt arena.
6.  Our first Herding Trial to try for a PT on Labor Day weekend.

Add in Terra's library visits and Tully's camp demos and county fair work and 16 weeks is not long at all!  It's a little overwhelming!

Yesterday we went to Flying Feet Agility Training Center in New Albany and used both their indoor agility ring and indoor obedience ring.   Tully was a rock star on the teeter and worked nicely in general.  It was a successful session and a lovely training facility.  I highly recommend it!  Today and tomorrow we are taking it easy.  We may do some weave work outside, but that's about it.  I find that Tully competes best when he's had a break, so we will take it easy this week.

Next weekend we hit the road for our next agility trial in Buckner, KY.  I can't wait and am ready to go!  Hopefully by this time next week there will be nice "win picture" up on this blog of Tully earning his Open Standard title!