Up late (early?) with The Boss again last night (this morning!), but . . . drum roll . . . HE FINISHED DEALING WITH EVIL PROGRAMMER FROM HELL!!!! (insert 'Hallelujah Chorus' here, plz k thx!)
At last, we can start keeping less bat-like hours around here.
Late night didn't save me from early rising, though -- well, early for a Saturday :). A Border Collie buddy is hosting a trial this weekend, and Ozzie, Willie, and I are heppin'! Nothing fancy -- we're not up to anything really clever right now (though I saw our trainer today -- we're going to start working hard again, yaaay!) -- just pulling a group of sheep out of their holding pen and pushing them up the field to the handler and dog at the top for each run. They hold the sheep at the far end of the field where the competitor's dog picks them up. It's just a Novice trial, too, so a pretty short field ( 100 yds?). We tuck each group of sheep back into their pen after their run, but these sheep are so trained, they pretty much pen themselves! After a while, though, the sheep get tired of the game and take more and more effort to push. (tomorrow -- camera!)
A few hours of that on this warm day, and even the doggies needed a nap!
Having been 'abandoned' all morning, Bruce decided he needed 'Mommy time,' too, so he napped on my shoulder while I snoozed -- until I felt him wake up and go stumping off, 'tum-tee-tum-tee-tum' -- heading on down towards my feet. Time to go back to your own space, Budge-man! (Yeah, yeah -- he's a 'Tiel. We just call him 'Budge' to tease him, because, supposedly, 'budgerigar' means 'pretty good eating' in Aborigine -- heh.)
Time to decompress:
'Stoopid Hoomin, iz not Basset Ball, iz Collie Ball!'How come naps give energy to everyone but me?
'Hold on -- iz not sharp yet! . . . nomnomnom . . .'Update: Couldn't resist -- had to submit!
Uppidy-update: Him too!
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