- Okay, change of plans, I am gonna head out
and do my errands now.
Ken got home, and it stopped raining,
so we are making a plan to hopefully
take the dogs for a run later,
so I am in search of a Polaroid camera,
let's see if I can make this happen.
(guitar strumming)
Good morning.
I had a late night at the arena,
but I'm up early this morning.
I have to, basically, make the day super productive
because I have camp that starts in the morning.
So, today is all about preparing for that.
This morning I came up with a couple fun ideas
for prizes, and games, and things like that,
so, it requires me to actually make a few
shopping trips today, so, I'm gonna have to
go out and do that.
I'm just, actually, working on the packages
that I'm making for all the campers,
that have all their course maps,
and exercises, and all that stuff in there.
So, yeah, it's gonna be a really busy day.
I was hoping to be able to take the dogs for some exercise
this morning, but when I woke up it was pouring rain,
so I think it's starting to let up a little bit,
so hopefully I can take them, quickly,
before I have to go out, and do all my errands.
And then I have a Fizio appointment, in the afternoon,
which is really not that exciting,
but it's super important if I want to teach on my feet
for nine hours a day, for the next three days.
I have an old agility injury that is better,
but I just, sort of, take special care of.
But the most exciting thing about my morning
is that my neck feels great.
I had Caley work on, work on it, last night,
with her pulse therapy, and I can't believe the difference.
So Caley, if you're watching, thank you so much.
I definitely wanna get it done next week.
It's always really great to do something
for yourself, that you also do for your dogs,
because I think it's hard for them to tell us
whether it's helping, or whether it's better.
Sometimes you can notice, and sometimes you can't,
but I notice a big difference with my neck, today,
and I'm really thankful for that
because it would probably, you know,
suck if I had to teach with a really sore neck
for the next couple days.
So, anyways, off to start the day.
(upbeat music)
So, the last time I checked, there wasn't Polaroid
cameras in Ren's Pet Depot, but I drove right by it,
and we need dog food pretty soon,
so, I thought I would make a quick stop.
Okay, I got the food.
Every single time I come here, I always come and check
down the toy aisle because Ren sells this toy
that Funky absolutely loves,
and I have nicknamed it Baby because she's,
like, that in love with this toy.
Anyways, JW makes it.
And it's the ball with feet, except she loves,
like, the baby version, like the little, tiny version,
and the last, like, several times that I've come
they haven't had it, so I check every time, no luck,
but I gotta figure out where they are,
and any time they're here, I buy, like, 10 of them
at a time, and, weirdly enough, she really likes
it in red, I don't know why, but anyways,
the things you do for your dogs.
Okay, so, I think I'm pretty clever.
I am obviously not very good at this whole vlogging thing
because I just started, and I don't really know
what I'm doing, and Ken is constantly telling me
that I need to look at the camera
instead of, like, looking at myself,
which is, like, really difficult to do
because you just wanna look at yourself,
so I just went to the dollar store,
to get some stuff for the camp,
and I bought these.
They're like millions, that's maybe not a good side to see,
without the writing on it, there you go,
millions of little happy faces,
so now, I have a little happy face sticker
right above my camera, so all I have to do is look
at the sticker, and I'll remember to look
in the right place.
Figuring this out, guys, I think I can handle it.
(upbeat music)
Look what I found.
(celebratory music)
Polaroid mini cameras.
They shoot out these, like, little, tiny
credit card type pictures, which is gonna be
perfect for what I wanna use this weekend.
Under a hundred buck, and I can have tons of fun
with it after.
I'm super psyched.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so I got everything that I need from Walmart.
I just have to make one more stop at Best Buy,
but I looked down at my phone, to look at the time,
and I realized that I am almost late
for my Fizio appointment, so, like,
I gotta boot it, without speeding, of course.
(upbeat music)
So, I arrived here in the nick of time.
My appointment's at 3:30, and it is 3:27,
so I have to race in there really quickly.
I go to see a girl named Leslie.
She and her husband run Burlington Sports Therapy,
in Burlington, and she is, like,
the sweetest, cutest, most adorable girl,
but she can inflict, like, major pain, if she wants to.
Anyways, hopefully my appointment's not too bad
because I haven't been here in a few months.
Anyways, we'll see how it goes.
I gotta go.
Okay, so I just finished my appointment.
It was, like, maybe a six out of 10 on the pain scale,
not too bad, but I will say, one of my favorite things
about going to the appointment is visiting
with the receptionist.
Her name is Sam, and she is so funny,
we end up laughing, and cackling,
and giggling for like 10 minutes after my appointment,
and then Leslie has to come out, and, like,
give us the stink eye, so, anyways,
she's so funny.
I really wanted to vlog, like, while I was in there,
but I didn't really think that was appropriate,
so, maybe another time,
but anyways, now I gotta head to Best Buy,
get a few things for the lecture portion
of the camp this weekend, and then, hopefully
I can go back, and, like, relax a little bit,
and have an easy night since tonight,
this weekend's a pretty big deal.
(upbeat music)
Okay, done my shopping for the day.
Now, I get to go home, and just put things together,
and then, hopefully, relax a little bit
before I have to get up early in the morning,
and head back.
(upbeat music)
- Pretty miserable, drizzly day.
Hopefully it's not too bad when we get up there,
but we're gonna take the dogs for a walk,
and then, we're going to get some stuff ready
for Kel's seminar tomorrow.
So, the class might be, or the buildings might be
kinda busy, but hopefully we can get around,
get everything done, that we need to,
as soon as possible because I'm still pretty tired
from working yesterday, and it would be nice
to get it all done quickly.
(upbeat music)
So, here we are in the office.
We're gonna talk to one of our trainers,
who's in the office, working, answering the phones,
and helping out all of our students
with any of the things that they need,
and this is Christine.
You may hear her referred to as Swanny,
but Christine, what's most common thing you've had,
what's the most common question that you've
had to answer today?
- The most common topic that's come up, today,
is registering puppies for our head start program.
A lot of people are getting puppies in the summer,
it's a great time to add a new family member,
so we're getting a lot of phone calls in, today,
inquiring about our head start classes.
They are fast filling up for the summer.
- And you can tell she's camera ready,
like, she just, she nailed it, as always.
So, it doesn't surprise me, 'cuz it seems like everywhere
that I go, we're encountering new puppies,
so it is that time of year, it seems.
(upbeat music)
Tell me about your collating.
- I have a system.
I staple them together, so it sorts,
and then, I pull it out,
and then, I un-staple them,
so that I don't have to sort them.
It wastes staples, but it saves time.
- Okay, so this part of the adventure is over.
I will say bye to you guys.
- See ya Ken.
- We'll see you soon.
- See you later, bye.
(upbeat music)
- We'll make our way over to the agility ring,
you can see the sky, it's pretty dark,
like this is a pretty ominous sky,
so, hopefully, it will, the weather will hold out
for a little bit, so that we can take the dogs
out for a walk, without getting soaked.
I think we made it.
We made it before it rained.
We get to take the dogs for a walk.
All that work is.
- I don't know, it's spitting a little bit,
I don't even wanna say that out loud.
- I know.
I have faith, we can make it through this.
There's something strangely rewarding about
making it to the point where it hasn't rained yet,
but we get to take the dogs for a walk.
I don't know if that's all dog people, or just us.
(upbeat music)
Mack, that'll do, that'll do.
Good boy, buddy, hi.
Okay, here you go.
One thing that I always forget,
when we have all the dogs out,
is all of our dogs respond to a come command,
or their name.
Mack is the only one that responds to that'll do,
and it's, I mean it is a 100% reliable,
but it's just unusual that I often forget about it.
- Yeah, it took me a while to get used to it
because I'm so used to our dogs' commands.
- Yeah.
- And the first couple times I took them for a prop
walk, without Ken, I was frustrated until it finally
dawned on me that saying come meant
absolutely nothing to him.
- No.
- 'Cuz he wasn't really trained that way.
- Yeah.
- And as soon as I said that'll do,
he just came trotting over to me,
and I thought, oh, okay.
- Yeah, it's a different command,
but, I mean, it's common in the herding world, of course.
- Mack, that'll do.
Good boy, hi buddy, hi, okay, get going.
- So, as they're running around the field,
we like to be training all of the time,
so even our oldest, most trained dogs,
we still practice their recall from time to time.
So, as they're running around, we usually bring,
like, a toy, or maybe a few treats with us,
or some of the dogs just like when we play with them,
and we will just randomly call them to us,
individually, throughout their run,
just to make sure that they're paying attention,
and we're in a really big field right now,
with all of the dogs completely off leash.
We are near a road, but there's fencing,
and it's safe, but still, we wanna make sure that,
if we call them, that they'll all come back,
as soon as we call them, on the first try.
- Yeah, it's a great opportunity to reward good behavior.
- Absolutely.
(upbeat music)
Feline here, here Fe, here Fe.
Yes, good girl, Fe.
Yes, pretty good for a nine month old puppy.
Slam here, yes, good boy.
Rod, here, yes, good boy.
You have to go away so I can call you, Turkey.
Ahh, come on girl, woohoo.
Come on Fun, come on Fun.
- That little dot, in the distance, is Funky,
making her (mumbles).
- Yay, the Border Collies are looking for her.
Good girl, here, here, here, here.
Yes, good girl, yes, yes.
Kegan, good, yes.
Slam, yes, good boy.
Money, Money, Money, Money, Money, Money.
Gonna go through my legs, watch behind you.
Come on.
Hop up, woooo, good girl.
Wait, wait, good girl, okay.
It has been a very busy day of running around,
and I'm totally exhausted, so,
hopefully I can get to bed at a reasonable night,
since I have a big day ahead of me,
but everything I set out to do, I accomplished today,
which is great.
I had a lot of, sort of, extra plans I threw in,
for the camp, that consisted of finding a Polaroid camera,
which I'm so excited about.
- That's a pretty cool find.
- I don't think I'm super good at working it yet,
I tried it a couple times, when I was at home,
but maybe we'll be better tomorrow.
So, yeah, I'm happy about that.
I got all my photocopying done,
all, like, sort of, the awkward, hard to do
things for the seminar, so tomorrow morning
I can focus on greeting the campers,
and setting up the courses,
and really getting in the thick of things.
So, yeah, looking forward to it.
- Yeah, and we got our walk in, without it pouring rain.
- You're right.
- Like, it's sort of a mist right now.
- Yeah.
- But we made it.
- That's true.
- We were able to walk the dogs without it raining,
so we're pretty happy about that.
- Mission complete.
- For sure.
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