It’s 7 degrees out this morning.  But the sun is shining and in the front of the house there is little wind.  And Katie was going nuts inside.  So I got the board out and we started working on getting her to go UP the slope.  I started with it flat on the driveway, butted up against the front porch’s two steps.  No problem.  She’ll run back and forth all happy, eager for her treat.

I slipped one end up on the first step which is really low.  No problem, she runs back and forth, leaping up onto the porch and grinning.

I slipped the end up to the top step.  She ran down it just like always, turned around and ran back up it before she realized it was higher.  YEA!!! I gave her LOTS of treats.  She ran back down.  Got a treat.  Turned around and balked.  Silly girl.  You just did this!

Finally got her to go up half the board, jumping on from the middle…then a bit later she accidently ran up all of it, eager for the treat.  YEA!!!! I gave her LOTS of treats.  Then she balked again.

Sigh.

After much tempting she sort of just said “oh what the heck” and ran up the board, turned around and basically said:  “OK, is THAT WHAT YOU WANT MOM?!”  She got LOTS of treats.

Then we went inside before she had a chance to balk again.  And to warm up my fingers.  We’ll try again later this afternoon.  They expect we’ll get to a high of 17.  Heat wave.