April 5, 2008 - I rented a tractor and told Ed that he had modified plans for Saturday!  I'm not one known to give him a "Honey Do" list, so he complied and began the work on my agility yard!  It's a nice fenced area, but was uneven and had lots of holes in it where dogs had previous dug for squirrels and gophers.

While Ed tractored, I had fun assembling my new equipment, including the tire jump shown above.  It didn't take much braunschweiger (Chloe's favorite training treat) to realize the tire isn't the scary thing she'd thought it was in class!

Daisy enjoyed racing around the yard after we got the obstacles in place.  (Not shown is my new pause table, which Saint Peter, my father-in-law, built for me that day!)

Last weekend Ed built my teeter-totter, another obstacle which Chloe had despised.  As you can see, it's not such a big deal any more.  She even did it amidst the distraction of the other dogs.
Sadly, this is the last photo I have of my sweet silver Standard, Seamus, shown behind the teeter.  He began with internal bleeding the day after this picture was taken, and the vet thought he had hemangiosarcoma, the same awful disease that claimed my Golden, Dexter, last June.