Magic carpet ride, anyone?

 

At last, Burgess flies again! Summer's injuries are healed and the hips are rehabilitated enough that we gave it a try. My boy looks good, doesn't he? At the annual Splashdogs event at the Nevada State Fair last weekend, Burgess had his first jump since the World Championship last November 2007. We tried sending him down the ramp (as opposed to jumping off the dock) but he started launching himself and lost his footing on the slippery ramp. It seemed safer to jump off the dock at that point. So we tried it with some baby tosses and he jumped beyond the throw everytime - no apparent problems and no pain behaviors the next day, either. My arm is quite rusty after a summer off the docks, so my performance was nothing to write about. But what a weight off my shoulders to see my boy jumping again.