We're feeling very fortunate to be in New Mexico this year; it was 66F yesterday ~ I took the dogs for a long hike in the canyon, range cattle safely at bay, the dogs running around like crazies. Solo seems to have finally put together the 3 positions for french ringsport! I was very happy to have him do the series this morning along with some jumps before we headed down here to town. There is a great balloon ascension this morning in Las Cruces, something like 75 balloons but we are missing it, instead choosing to watch the local rodeo kids work horses and calves down at the fairgrounds. It is like something out of the 'real' west which, of course, this is...even so much so that I wonder about my "Wool...it's what's for winter" bumper sticker!

Monday I start training dogs at the local (and very new) no-kill shelter. It will be a new experience for me; many of the dogs have come off the Mescalero Indian reservation and are "indian dogs" whatever they are. It'll be an experience regardless of the dogs and one I expect to learn from. I am also taking some dog obedience training classes of course and am doing VST tracking with Solo ~ great opportunity down here with no snow and all.