Highway Driving, Training again

Yesterday I bit the bullet, summed up my courage and decided to drive on the highway. I needed to buy birthday gifts for my grandson and daughter and get them shipped to their home in time. That was a good incentive. It took me past my accident site. I pretty much did fine overall, but did grip the steering wheel and needed to take a few deep breaths as I passed where the accident happened. So chalk one up, I hope very soon I'm able to go anywhere I want. Now driving at night will take awhile. Baby steps.
Blitz came up not using his right rear leg on Sunday. I soaked it and on Monday he was pretty much his old self. But then he ran around with the other dogs and that leg curled up under his belly again. So no training Sunday, no training Monday. I hoped to train yesterday but I could tell his rear was still not behaving itself.
Today was glorious weather-wise and Blitz was very close to normal. I decided to go ahead and train him lightly and work on Mr. Moto too. To break things up a bit, I reminded Blitz and Moto of the dumbbell retrieve. WOW those two needed no reminding! I was stunned at the rapidity and accuracy of Blitz's retrieve. Moto retrieved with a sense of urgency which is great. Since Moto seemed to be enjoying himself I brought out the jumps, put them up to 12" and we did a dumbbell retrieve over high. He did it beautifully!
Blitz and I did a bit of heeling and it was OK. It could have been the limping but he was not on fire as much as he usually is. Accuracy was OK, not great. But he's always trying so hard and always so eager to please. Both he and Moto LOVE getting feedback when they are right and I'm thrilled to report they take pride in their work. Moto is really on the fast lane of learning right now. I need more energy to keep up with him! He will never be flashy like Blitz but I believe his personality type will be one of consistency and he'll qualify with more regularity than his temperamental sire Shiloh.
As for Blitz, well, we will just enjoy our ring time together. I hope to qualify but I will not expect it. Same for high scores - if his health holds maybe that will come with time. He certainly has the capability if we can train for it. But for now, we'll just be two very lucky "little miracles" taking to the ring in three weeks!