November 18th, 2025
Location: Yorktown Surrender Field Track Layer: Myself Food: Chick-fil-A nuggets Article: Coyote tail on tether Goal for the day: Work on our homework 2, two-turn tracks with an article at each turn. How did it feel? Not great. I definitely set him up for failure without meaning to. I haven’t been to this location since early March, and we were hoping the field had been mowed… it hadn’t. Oh well, the grass height was still TD-appropriate. But as I was laying the track, I started noticing patches of briars. Some areas were okay, others were definitely not. Finwë struggled with briars last year, he absolutely hates walking through thorns. So why did I still lay a 100+ yard, two-turn track through that mess? I DO NOT KNOW. I guess I had it in my head that I needed to practice exactly what Judi assigned. Needless to say, things didn’t go well. A few minutes into the track, Heather arrived, which didn’t help. He saw her van and was immediately like, “FRIENDS!!!” He absolutely could h...