Gustavo in steeplechase finals. Exciting off course tunnel! 

It sure is painful when stuff like that happens. Just smarts like the stinger's still in there, sending the bee juice into your nerves. It took a few minutes to shake that Grand Prix final off, but we did. Pretty much. It just wasn't in our cards to be champions. That thing I sure do want, but sure seems to be squarely out of my reach.


Otterpop in a Standard run where she looks happy so I wanted to put this one here.

The rest of the day, kind of mmmphhh. Made an error with Otterpop in Standard. Goodbye, number 1 in Top Ten. Made a mistake with Gustavo in Snookers, then a different mistake on the same course with the hard to make a mistake with, super trained and super cute Vic. Although it sure was fun to run a big dog again.


Gustavo did have a very fast and very lovely Jumpers run. And we watched so many of our friends succeed. Some of them had things go wrong. Everybody shook it off, at least that I could see. We get back up, get the monkey off our backs, we try again. Because, what else can we do?

USDAA Bay Team Western Regional, the last day, wrapping it all up.

When we were packing everything up at the end of the day, after most people had…