Dancing in the Fading Light

We're having a party here in MargeLand, celebrating the arrival - finally - of Marge's blood at Dr. Jean Dodds' testing center in California.  The tests have not yet been run, but I'm assuming the blood is still good and I'll have my long-awaited answers soon.

Today has been a mostly good day.  Marge went on a morning walk, a mid afternoon walk, and an evening walk right before her dinner.  The morning walk was completely loose, the evening walk filled with lots of clicking and behavior modification exercises in the busy field, and the middle walk a combination of the two.  I am pleased to say that all three went exceptionally well.

Here's another picture I snapped in my backyard tonight. Marge has her concerned face on because she was looking into the yard two houses over through the slats of the fence.  But, it shows off her very good physical condition.  Amping up the exercise (and specifically, the small sessions of agility training in my yard) has definitely produced more muscle in my already muscular girl.  As she's aged, she seems to have filled out in all the right areas and her strength and curves really make for a good lookin' dog.  If I do say so myself!

Fortunately, she wasn't too concerned with the other activity going on, and though I tried to play a game of "find it" with her beloved hippo, she decided that running around with it on her own was a better option.. see above.

In other news, I did send in my trial entry, as some of you have been wondering.  I received my confirmation last night - Marge and I, if everything goes right, will be running in the NADAC Regular class on the first day of next month.  It's amazing and terrifying all at the same time.