Trust/May 24 - 2nd laid and on first

I've not done this before, but decided to do 2 shorter tracks, shorter aged, instead of one long regular one. We've still had no rain here, but heard the area I had planned to work in received about 10 minutes worth in the morning....so off we went. It was still going to get very hot and humid again. It's been almost impossible to work in the conditions recently, but felt doing it this way, it might be a little easier, more fun and motivational for Trust. And we could take a break between the two tracks; they were in different locations.
She is on her first leg here. The grass on this side of the fence was cut the day before; the workers are picking it up on the other side. Social butterfly that she is, she was probably hoping they would come over and say hello.

Trust found her first article (sock) halfway between her first and second corner. She chose to work alongside a ditch (wet spot) on the left so was not working right on the track. However, she moved up to her corner and this leg goes up to the gravel road.

She is turning onto the road, and this time chooses to move to the right working mainly on the grass. She curved around straight to her article (plastic) before the track moves into deeper grass.

Indicating her article and looking for her praise and treat from mom.

She's crossed into the scrubby, taller grass, made a left turn and is right on the track. Look at the beautiful view to the south, just love those hills (double click to enlarge picture). She will make another left turn, cross gravel driveway(s), turning right, will track up beside building (upper left corner of this pic.) and then turn left again on the gravel.

I had left a little treat here for her at the change from (easy) damp, tall grass to dry, hot gravel.

This is not a clear picture, but didn't take another for a longish stretch as we were talking to one of the fellows raking up grass. The blue arrows in the background show where we on our first leg and the van over by the start. This is a long section on gravel, continuing past the right side of the picture.

Trust had a left turn in the middle of the driveway, and then chose again to work alongside the grass all the way up to the next corner.

Usually she "looks" for the van - her favorite place - and I fully expected her to want to continue on towards it, here. She surprised me...turned from the grass and headed straight over to the final article.

And there it is, her glove near the edge of the grass. She did very well; this was the shortest aged of the two tracks, the idea being not overly difficult for her, she seemed to enjoy it. So then we were off to the next track.