Anticipation

Getting excited about being a spectator at the AKC Nationals!  This weekend!!  So grateful I get to go.  So sorry to have to leave the pupsters behind.  But they get to stay home with their pops, which will be most excellent, for all three of them.  We'll be texting a few photos back and forth, I'm sure...

RENO!  It's been quite a few years since I've been to Reno.  My ex and I used to go to the Snaffle Bit Futurity there every year.  I loved riding horses at that facility - even though all I did was "warm up" and "cool down."  Our first trip to the Reno Futurity was made two weeks after our oldest son was born.  A trip to remember....

And now....AKC NATIONALS.  I hope to meet some "friends" from FB and/or this blog.  Please do walk up and say Howdy, if you see me there...!  

PLUS we'll get to watch some terrific agility.  And go shopping!  Okay, I'm not a shopper...but I look forward to shopping there.  Something about "all dogs, all the time" is appealing....

Might even go shopping today...because it's important to have the correct bag for an adventure.   Not too small...not too big.  Enough room for a camera, my phone, Advil, bandaids (why do I always need bandaids?), a hair brush, notebook and pens, Kleenex, a bottle of water, a paperback book...

Maybe this bag:

  (12x8x3...)

Or something similar.  But of course it all depends on what they have in the store.   For sure I don't want to carry my old canvas Safeway bag around in Reno. 

Anticipating the Nationals has me thinking about trialing again.  Is it time to enter Riff in another trial?  I can hardly believe the trial I got hurt at last season is being held again in two weeks.  It's been almost a full year since my injury!  We've always loved the USDAA Haute/TRACS trial in Dixon.  Bummer to miss it this year. 

So..yeah.  Maybe I should enter Riff in a trial.  What's coming up in April?  May?  Anything within a reasonably short driving distance?  (Sadly, driving is still a pain in the...back.)  Time to print a copy of Karey's Calendar, and check it out.

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