Swimming in Lake Redmond

Saturday we went for a swim with the GraytSky family.  Amy and Michael wanted to get Fala, now 19 weeks old, in the water again after a successful intro at an indoor doggie pool.  I'm toting around Ziva, my friend's welsh springer spaniel, so I wanted to see how she would do, as well as Swing who's been in my friends pool a few times.  Dodge has been in water but I wanted to get him doing some more retrieving.  We had dogs at all levels, Beau was still tentative at first (but quickly came around) while the others were either willing or bold.  The area we chose to get the dogs in the water was knee deep until you got about 10 feet from the bank.  It then became thigh deep and since neither Michael, Howard or I were wearing swim suits we didn't bother venturing out much farther than that.  I am sure it was closer to chest deep when you got 20 feet out since we were throwing bumpers that far for Dodge and he was swimming to get them.  Anyway, the following shots will tell the story better than words...

In case it isn't obvious, the little red and white one is Ziva and she and Swing have been having a blast together.  I'm sure they will enjoy seeing each other again after Ziva goes home at the end of the week.

Fall show season will be starting very soon and we are kicking it off next weekend by going to a match where Fala will make his ring debut.  We will also be joined by another GraytSky bred dog, Buzz from MD.  So far the weather is favorable but who knows what it will be like 6 days from now.  I know that sister Ella will be showing soon and hopefully Ann will let us know how she does (oh, Swing is entered at a show on the 15th so the match is a warm up for her).

Puppy sitting is taking up a lot of our time right now so training has been limited to doodling in the house.  And on this Labor Day we are doing some doodling and watching marathons of NCIS and Rizzoli and Ives.  What else should you do on a dreary/rainy day?  Other than housework that is!