Glad to see your post :) I was on another board reading about Atlanta weather today - hail the size of baseballs??? Thought I’d check to see if you wanted to visit Nevada for awhile until it settles down there. We are only dealing with cold and predicted snow tomorrow.
Both dogs did splendidly today! Miss Shelley did picture perfect doubles, and after a spotty start with a long land blind she nailed it repeatedly from different directions (a/k/a 'walking blind'). Miss Ruby is as fast as any dog I've ever seen, by far the fastest dog out there today -- she is a flippin' rocket and she charges the birds like there's a full dinner dish waiting over there. She did a 120 yard land mark with a duck, and brought it all the way back and gave it to me! Then she was the only dog in the water retrieving who didn't bank run, except of course for Shelley who didn't bank run either. And then Shelley did beautiful water marks across a cove, from 3 different angles.
I think they're almost ready for their next level in hunt tests . . . . .