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Well, the weather is holding up for Ken. He called me at lunch today and said it was windy, but sunny at the track. He’s having a ball! He sounded like a little kid at a party in his honor. Told me he had gone 148 mph and I told him I was disappointed as I thought he could go faster than that. He said the winds were making them go slower as it was harder to keep the front of the car on the track with the winds. Before he left, I had to give him a haircut — buzzed his head — less wind resistance that way, don’t you know?

When I talked to him this morning, he said they had stayed up too late last night at the dog track. He was up at 3:00 yesterday morning so yes, he was out too late. He says they’re planning to go back tonight and I told him to not stay out so late — what am I anyway — his mother???

Speaking of being a mother — Eddie, Yvonne and Randy are due in Saturday afternoon. Not much of a visit, but at least I’ll get to see him before he ships out.  Y’all be praying for his safe return, now, OK?

Next weekend (6/24) we’re supposed to go to Charleston for Bebe’s recital. That will be a whirlwind trip since we have no dog sitter, but if last year’s performance is any indication, we’ll be in for a treat.

Pam had back surgery last week to fuse some discs that were ruptured. She’s doing OK according to John and knowing Pam, she’ll be right back at it way before she ought to. Seems like we’re all falling apart at the same time, though.

It’s hell to get old.

Chris and Gina are still separated but talking. Not a good situation if you ask me, but you didn’t. Told you anyway.

Got a new SQL book in the mail yesterday — SQL Cookbook by Anthony Molinaro. Looks pretty interesting! I’m learning about Window Functions and Partitions. Haven’t figured out yet just how relevant these will be to my job, but they say learning new things keeps Alzheimers at bay and BOY HOWDY! don’t I need that! (Ma — that stands for rolling on floor laughing my a** off)

Well, guess I’ve rambled on enough. Need to get the lyrics to a Muddy Waters’ song I  heard on NPR this morning, so I’m off to do a web search.

Love to all,

Margaret

Oh dear — have not written in several days! I am bad…

Had the Asheville dog shows this weekend. Boy was it HOT!! Ken could not go as he had to work, so I found a couple of people to take his dogs in otherwise the majors would have broken in both sexes — it still broke in dogs, but that’s the breaks I guess.

Stephanie took in Oscar and did a great job with him. She got Reserve Winners Dog with him and I thought for a moment she might end up getting Winners, but Connie Alexander’s dog handled by Donna Bost took those honors. Dana took in Maggie. Maggie looked, great, but got 2nd both days.

I got 2nd both days with Ashely and 4th Saturday and 3rd Sunday with Butterfly who, I’m told was gorgeous.

Got to see lots of friends –Janet, Kitty, Calvin, Yvonne — it was nice!

Ken left this morning (at 3:30 am!!) for BMW where he will then go on to Daytona Beach, FL. He was kind of excited about the trip — guess this will seem like a vacation despite the fact that it’s work. They are taking some cars down there to test on the track where the Daytona 500 is run. One more thing to add to his store of “things I can tell my grandchildren” 🙂

Tweaked on the website some. Not content, but just looks. I need to get on those individual dog pages! Those are the only thing left to do to complete the site. Don’t know why I am dragging my feet on them.

Have a wonderful day today!

Love to all,

Margaret

Hello nice people! I sure hope everyone is having a great day today! It’s such a lovely day here — the sun is out and it’s not unbearably hot. The dogs have spent most of the afternoon out in the grass sunning themselves while I was inside working.

Johnathan and Angie stopped by earlier and met Skinny Marie (and the rest of my crew of course!) in person. Johnathan HAD to take a photo of her with both himself and Angie. I had to laugh at him leaping my fence gate to get into the midst of the dogs. He almost didn’t make it 😉 He seems to be full of fun and energy and he and Angie make a nice couple.

Check out John Heffernan’s blog. Wyatt (his Whippet) has been accomplishing some great things in the obedience ring! Good Whippet Blog — I’ve added him to my list of links to other blogs down at the bottom of the page.

Now that you’ve been reading this for awhile, what do you think? Most of you come, read and go on your merry way, but I would love for you to leave a comment or two every once in awhile.

I have plans to include some poetry and short story writings of my own at some point. Just not enough hours in the day! I will have plenty to do when I retire, though, don’t you think?

Love to all,

Margaret

Well, as you can tell, I’ve updated the look of the blog and I think I like it very much. I hope you do too.

My crested babies are growing and they are more cute every day! I can’t wait until they are old enough to show. Payne will be old enough to enter in the Greenville shows, but Teddy and Saber will have to wait another couple of months after that.

Tigger will also be old enough to show in Greenville. He’s looking a little lanky right now having gone through a growing spurt this last week, but I know he will go back to being the nicely proportioned boy he was 2 weeks ago.

Ken leaves for Daytona next week and will be gone 4 days. I’ll miss him terribly while he’s gone, but at least it’s only for 4 days — not like the 2 months he was gone to Germany last year.

Eddie goes to Fort Jackson June 18th — kind of a bummer to have to report on Father’s Day, but that’s the things that you have to put up with when Uncle Sam is your boss. I know it will be very hard on Yvonne, Chrystalyn and Randy to have him gone for 6 months. We will have to make extra effort to keep in touch with them and make sure they have the family support they will need during this stressful time.

Work today was work. Still trying to get a couple of projects finished and another started.

That’s all for tonight.

Love to all,

Margaret

Sorry about not posting yesterday. By the time I got home from work, cleaned up and fed the dogs and Ken, it was very late and I was tired, so went to bed instead of writing.

I worked from home today. Got a lot done since I had no distractions of any major sort. Was very peaceful with just bird chatter and the occasional dog bark for background noise instead of the office roar.

My Barbara Mitchell daylily has bloomed. It’s not fully opened yet, but I did promise you a picture, so here it is.

Also blooming is this lovely Gladiolius

Got to run — have a meeting tonight with SQL Server development group.

Love to all,

Margaret

Got home from Pinehurst around 5:00. We didn’t win anything there, but enjoyed spending time with friends and seeing beautiful dogs. Had a camper full of dogs and Charlotte stayed with us, so it was pretty crowded.

Next weekend is Asheville and we will drive back and forth for that. Ken says he will probably have to work and to leave his two at home, but I will try to take them anyway and show them for him.

Not much else to report.

Love to all,
Margaret

Today was when we were supposed to go “live” with Great Plains purchasing and inventory modules, but the inventory counts are not all in and so the current inventory is not accurate, so we will have to wait until that’s complete. We also still need a good list of part numbers for both systems. “Go Live” was pushed out to 6/12 which is right before we close for the month.

At home, I’m packing, washing dogs and trying to get ready to leave tomorrow for Pinehurst. It’s possible that I won’t be going as our dog sitter has not shown up for me to show her how to do our dogs. Not an auspicious start. Ken says I could come later if she can make it out tomorrow morning or if I can get in touch with the lady we’ve talked to about being our backup person. She, too needs to come out to meet the dogs and see how and where everything is organized. Ken will go on with the camper and the 4 dogs that are entered along with Tigger. If I go later, I can bring the “camp followers”, Skinny Marie, Lance, Zoomer, Tiffany, Saber, Payne and Teddy.

Got to hit the hay as it’s already past midnight and tomorrow promises to be a long day.

Love to all,

Margaret

I really need to do this every nite, but there just aren’t enough hours in the day.

Yesterday — hmm. Nothing special happened. Just another day in the neighborhood 🙂

Gave shots to the little babies and they were so good. They played happily once the owie was over and are such sweeties! Cheylene did a great job of socializing them. They do love their daddy, though. When Ken gets home, all the dogs have to have some “Daddy loving” and they have fallen right in with the rest of the group. They give tons of kisses and are quite content to lay in your lap. They have learned that Lottie is a pushover and that Nyssa should be avoided. They dote on Bruno who looks after them. Skinny Marie says “OH NO!!! PUPPIES” and hightails it out of reach. She was much more interactive with Whippet puppies. Guess these don’t fit the profile 😛

The big project at work is NOT going live today (didn’t think it would) as there are too many things not done yet. I still don’t have part numbers, but have been promised them by EOB today. We’ll see. We also can’t upload inventory levels as they are still in the middle of uploading inventory counts that were taken last week. And, since they didn’t get me a good list of new part numbers, all of those will now have to be entered manually since they aren’t in either system today. FUN! I just love it when people ignore what I’ve told them and then cry, wail and gnash teeth when my predictions come true Glad I’m the lowly dba and not a data entry person 😛

Have a good day!

Love,

Margaret