Up North

This weekend was a special 4-H training event called Leadermete. The Central Region of counties in Michigan put on an all day seminar with numerous people giving classes on a variety of subjects. I was asked to speak on Rally Obedience and to bring a dog to demonstrate. All in all there were over 150 people registered for Leadermete. However severe weather caused most of the ones from the west side of the state to cancel. Seeing the weather reports and warnings I decided to go up to Mt. Pleasant on Friday ahead of the storm. So I loaded up the car with my Rally equipment, and Boston and I headed out stopping to pick up one of my 4-H leaders Anne. We ended up having a great time and our class had more than two dozen people, picking up a few from classes that cancelled because the instructors couldn't make it. We finished up late Saturday afternoon and decided that the weather warnings were too much to ignore. We stayed over Saturday night and headed home on Sunday afternoon. When we heard there was a 50 car pile up on the highway we would have to travel right about the time we would have been on it, we were sure glad we waited! The wind chill was 30 to 40 below zero and fierce winds caused whiteout conditions. It was a long drive home, but we made it safe and sound. Here you can see us demonstrating the serpentine exercises in our class. Boston did an excellent job and patiently worked all 48 Rally exercises for the audience.