Tuesday, I went to our Womens Overseas Service League luncheon and I gave them some heart pretzels. Then I took Sophie to the groomer. It took longer than usual because there were plenty of other dogs she was doing when I dropped Sophie off. In the evening I went to a church discussion on the saints.
This was a fun time! — attending Lincoln birthday dance at Old State Capitol State Historic Site.
I'm fanning myself at the bottom of this pillar and standing out the dance so that the children can join us for a memory of Lincoln's Birthday ball.
This is called 9 Pin Quadrille. A single person without a partner is in the middle and she dances with each gent and his lady partner goes to the center one by one holding hands in a circle. When there's 5 ladies circling and the music stops, we rush to accompany a gent sort of like musical chairs. The game can get rough.
Rose, Kay, Richard and Stephanie
This dance is called Lucky 7 because the seventh person is our new partner.
It was snowing during the dance and some couples had a rough travel home to the Peoria area.
In the evening I went to our Amvets meeting. Many other events were canceled because of the slick driving conditions. Below is a video from the Old State Capitol's Facebook page that yielded the dance to the school kids that visited. I am at the bottom of the pillar with my fan. Yep, as cold as it was outside, dancing heated my body and I needed my fan.
Thursday was yoga, open dog practice at 11, then the dog club members went to lunch at the new "Sangamo Brewing" pub, and then Sophie went on a dog visit and then in the evening was the last night of Agility 103 class. This is the rally bragging wall for 2019 at the club. Notice the hook on the wall for tethering a dog? Well I pinched my finger in it Thursday night.
There's Amber's plate on the board.
Thursday evening the lock was frozen on the shed at Capitol Canine Training Club so there was a course with a teeter from the other room and hoops instead of jumps. The staff set up a challenge that seemed to puzzle a lot of us on how to maneuver a sharp turn jump around at card #1. We had right away make a sharp turn around to #2 with a distracting and tempting tunnel entrance facing opposite the #1 jump. All of us handlers were afraid of how to lead the dog through #1 to #2 but everyone got that and the bigger problem was not crossing on the teeter. Amber had no problem going over the teeter. In fact she jumped the start line for play to head for it. I had to call her back. She missed a few hoops which bothered me but the trainers didn't scold me for that as much as they insisted on a pause at the end of the teeter in the yellow zone. They call this "two on two off" for a slow dismount. Personally, I want to fix the hoop problem because I see a lot of videos of teeters without the two on-two off pause but a lot of penalties for missing an obstacle.
There are tie outs on the club wall and I pinched my finger in the darn d-ring clamp. I got a black spot on my finger.
Friday it was 2 degrees and only a few showed up at morning exercise so we had a little fun with it. Here is Britney and Ann doing a little Valentine's Day Zumba.
The frozen ground affected the dog walk. They both tried to hold back and walk on 3 instead of 4.
Friday afternoon I helped drive a female Air Force veteran that is down on her luck to her appointments. I don't know how well her future is but at least I'll try.
Friday evening I took Amber to trick class. Our homework assignment is to learn a handstand.
Amber already uses the command "behind" for something else so I will use the command "feet up". However, my agility instructor thinks the handstand is bad for an agility dog in opposition to my trick dog trainer. I don't understand because part of agility practice is backing up on a low platform but just not as high as a wall.
Saturday I went to the Illinois State Military Museum for a reenactor swap meet. I got to downsize 2 of my dresses and one bonnet.
On the right side of this photo is a clothing rack in front of my table.
This is Don Werner a die-hard reenactor that portrays WW1 through Vietnam era.
This is an old dog tag machine. It still works but takes longer than the modern one next to it (on the right off the photo). I makes mistakes though like putting a letter over another letter. They had a whole cup full of mistake print tags.
Loved this little guy all dressed up in an airborne uniform.
Saturday evening I watched "Marriage Story" on Netflix. It was sad. I got the VFW post authorities to request banning two people form our VFW Facebook page as an administrator. We had enough of their negative comments and the 2 kept forcing the issue that their late father was a member and liked the old ways of Bingo and dancing. Those old programs are no longer profitable and even cost to maintain and were dropped. We added the popular karaoke and the daughter complained on Facebook about it. Her constant criticism was getting too hard and she kept throwing in that we disrespect the father. As admin, I had to execute: BANNED! Children of veterans do not inherit a say in how the post handles its affairs. In fact, the old WW2 veterans had a vendetta with the Vietnam veterans and caused the VFW in Springfield to split into another post. We are all veterans and want to bury the ax.
Sunday morning I was a Eucharistic minister and afterward I took Amber to the nursing home to do a trick show. They seemed to be amazed with her tricks and in particular, go hide in the suit case. There was a man that was tall man in a ball cap with a deep voice. Amber seemed afraid of him. I had him give Amber a meatball bit. That's not too unusual because she also was afraid of a snowman when we went for a walk. Reaction was about the same for both. I fixed dirty rice and ham and peas for Sean and I for lunch. Then I fixed a pineapple upside down cake. Still felt guilty over the pineapple cake that flopped for his birthday. This recipe may have been low calorie but not so great still.
Sunday afternoon was a lot nicer. I think it got up to 45. After a walk I took Amber over to the club. A member was setting up a teacup course for practice. Well we had teacup agility at 3pm. Amber was bad. I know I need to make a practice tire jump. She won't go through it. Then at 5PM, I changed dogs and Sophie practiced rally. Some at the club still hadn't met Sophie since Amber needs most of the taming. One commented on the activity level between my dogs. Yep!
Monday morning I was awoken by rhythmic paws and heavy breathing by my side. I'm sure she was dreaming. Agility perhaps.
"I wish I knew the names of all the stars" Conagher
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