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Good morning!

Today is rather dreary looking. We had some very strong thunderstorms last night that shut our power off for quite some time. I had to leave to attend a meeting and at the time I left, it had been off around 30 minutes, so I don’t know exactly how long it actually stayed off. It’s supposed to rain more today and although we need the rain, we can do without the pyrotechnics.

Our meeting last night talked about the responsible dog owner day on 9/15. Our club was asked to sponsor a booth at the dog park. We discussed some things we could do. Last year’s booth had mixed reviews. There were some things that generated a lot of interest, but there were some things we did that were ho-hummers. We want to learn from that experience and offer some other things. Since watching things go on is not my favorite thing to do under normal circumstances, I offered the idea of purchasing washable paints (water colors or acrylics) and getting some newsprint from the newspaper and having an area cordoned off so people could have their dog paint them a picture. Since one of the goals of this enterprise is to raise money for the dog park (they’ve commissioned a statue for the entrance and want to pay for it), we could charge a $1 or $2 fee for having your dog create this masterpiece. There is also an Art-In-The-Park function scheduled for this same weekend, so this activity would fit in and serve to combine the two things. If you were attending such a function, would you be inclined to participate in this event and, if so, what other things besides the basics of water to wash with, paint and paper would be needed? I may purchase some paints and just see what my dogs do with them given an opportuntity to play and test out potential problems. For long haired dogs, I may have to provide “aprons” to keep the paints from spattering on coats, etc. Maybe I’ll also have one of my dogs create a few masterpieces to offer for sale. I think Payne might have some artistic talent 😉

Well, I guess I need to get back to work.

Love to all,

Margaret