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Oh dear! My poor blog has been so neglected of late! Well, for a good reason (sort of).

Ken and I left August 30th for Raleigh and 4 days of shows. Our main objective was to get some down-time and we did accomplish that since it rained the first two days, so we huddled in the camper and slept or watched tv or read. I didn’t even take my laptop which doesn’t have internet access anyway, but I still could have played games or such on it.

We had hoped to possibly finish Butterfly (didn’t happen) and maybe even get some points on Oscar (that didn’t happen either). There was an all-breed match on Friday and a Chinese Crested specialty match on Saturday and we hoped to get some ring experience in for our puppies (that DID happen). We entered Tigger and Payne in the Friday match. Ken let Stephanie show Tigger and while she did a fine job of showing him, he was just too much puppy for her and cut up a lot. He was 3rd. Payne did well in her class and also finished 3rd. Saturday, we entered our two 5month olds, Charlotte’s litter sister and Payne in the specialty match. The two powderpuff babies both finished 3rd in their HUGE sweepstakes classes (9 in Teddy and Saber’s and 6 in Cheyenne’s), so we were very happy with those placements. Alas, Saber did not want to walk on leash for Ken and didn’t place. Payne won her sweepstakes class. Regular classes saw pretty much a repeat of sweeps as far as the little ones were concerned, but Payne was 2nd in hers instead of first. All-in-all, I think it was a good start for the pups and good experience for Payne and Tigger. Butterfly did manage to pull off one point on Monday by going Best of Winners. That now gives her 7 points with one of the two required majors. She’ll be going to Atlanta the 22nd through the 24th for the specialty. Keep your fingers crossed for her!

Came home to an ant invasion, so have to get some ant repellant or killer. They got in my dog food and we had to throw out nearly 50 lbs of food — what a bummer! :'(

Heard from Janet — Steve is home from the hospital and doing really well! I’m so glad!

Millicent has had her first chemotherapy treatment and is doing well from that. Let’s hope the second one goes as well.

Well, I think that pretty much catches you all up on our news. Hope everyone is doing well — Colin — is Becky back to normal after her surgery? I need to go check out your blog.

Love to all,

Margaret
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