Day 2989

 I woke up at 7 and couldn't go back to sleep, so I played games until 8.  Ellen still ended up feeding the animals.

We had planned on going shooting today, but last night's deluge insured that both Marble Falls and Capital would be seas of mud.  The Nationals provided me with all the mud experience I need for a very long time.

After breakfast I did some surfing and then went out to the garage to build a new RC car obstacle.  I don't have anything more to do on the vehicles until some parts come in.  That won't happen until late next week.

I'm building something I saw on YouTube.  I found a couple of pieces of scrap wood for the obstacle foundation.  Then I cut out three wooden triangles and attached them to the foundation pieces.  That's as far as I got.  It was noon and I wanted to take Abby to Circle C.  After the rain there would be a lot of water in the creek.

We put the collar on Abby when we got to the park.  Ellen had her heal on the lead over to the West end of the creek.  We let her off lead and she splashed some in the water.  I got a stick and threw it into the creek.  She was perfectly happy running into the shallow area retrieving it.  I through the stick once in the deep end.  Abby got about two strokes in before she scrambled back.  That was all the introduction to swimming I had her do.

After that we walked around the West soccer field.  Abby payed attention to us and came every time we called.  At one point she ran over to some people.  It's the only time we had to zap her to get her back.  We continued to walk around the park.  Most of the time Abby stayed within 100 yds of us without being called.  She always came or stopped when we called.

At one point she went around a curve in the path and we couldn't see her.  She'd run across a soccer field and was playing with another dog.  She came running back as soon as I called.  The only other time she got zapped was when I told her to heal and she went over to great a passerby instead.

All in all Abby did fantastic.  If the weather is good we'll go again tomorrow.  I didn't do as good.  By the time we were finished I was stiff, sore, and very tired.

We went over to the Italian place for lunch.  The weather was nice - high 60's.  Abby was a little too rambunctious there.  She needs some more practice at eating out.  When we were finished we took her to Tomlinson's and bought her a treat.

I'd planned on working in the garage some more, but I was too tired.  I surfed instead while Ellen watched a chick flick.  When she was done I switched to videos, but I kept falling asleep.

Dinner was leftovers.  After that it was more videos.

I'm mildly curious about how Tony is doing, but not enough to call him.