Debbie is off at an agility meet in Silverado, California. She's competing with Mo'i, but she also has Miki along – he needs to get accustomed to crowds, noise, and the random events of a show.
A few minutes ago, a very happy and excited Debbie called with the news that she and Mo'i had “Double-Q'd” today. That's agility competition jargon for having qualified on each of their two runs today. To qualify at the level of competition that Mo'i is in, they have to run the obstacle course perfectly – all the designated obstacles in the correct sequence, without hesitating, without knocking anything over, and without missing any of the “contact points” they're required to touch. In addition, they have to run it at least as fast as the official time for the course. She and Mo'i did that twice today, on two different courses! Between the two courses, they were seven seconds ahead of the course time – so they earned 27 points today: 20 for the double-Q, and 7 for their speed.
Woo-hoo!
I'm told they celebrated afterwards by sharing a barbequed chicken sandwich. I suspect this was more profound and meaningful for Mo'i than it was for Debbie <smile>...
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