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Good morning and TGIF! Another week has gone by and we are still here, writing and reading.

It rained yesterday! YAHOO! A nice soaking rain, too. I can hear it in the birdsong that this rain is so welcome! It’s taking a bit longer for the plants to respond as they are so parched, but I believe I see a tiny bit of greening to them and a “plumping” of the leaves. It’s supposed to rain more today and tomorrow, but honestly and truthfully, we need several weeks of rain (not that I really WANT weeks of rain, but several days followed by cool weather followed by several days of rain would work OK).

Got to get back to work — sorry this is so short.

Love to all,

Margaret

Happy Thursday everyone! Another week is almost shot.

Saturday I go to Augusta for a one day dog show. I have 3 dog entered — Tigger, Butterfly and Payne. We will see if we do anything. I’m not real sure of the Crested judge – she’s been around awhile and I’ve both one and lost under her although I’ve only ever shown her Whippets and a Chihuahua before. I don’t know the Whippet judge at all, but that’s OK as I often do well under those 😛

Ken is once again working all weekend.

I may be going to GA Sunday as I’ve had a lady express some interest in the puff boy I have for sale. We will see what her application looks like.

I’m working on reports these next couple of days. Wes is wanting two created that will automatically e-mail to the individual it needs to go to. We’ll see what happens.

Very short one today as there really is not much going on. News is depressing on the world front for the most part.

We are supposed to have thunderstorms today. We sure can use the rain, but I’m afraid it still won’t be enough.

Love to all,

Margaret

Last night’s meeting was VERY interesting (at least to me), but I won’t bore you with any details. Just know that it was time well spent on my part.

We are actively beginning to pack up and get ready for our physical move of the office to the new building. I guess I will begin trekking personal stuff home so there will be less to take over and sort out there. Knowing me, it will probably rattle around in the car for awhile, perhaps even to being slogged up to the new digs once we’ve settled in.  I don’t really have that much — mostly pictures and books and I do use many of the books daily, so will leave those until the last minute.

I’m getting excited about getting out of here. For the last 2 years, there has been no hot water and for the last couple of months, one of the toilets in the ladies rest room on the 4th floor has been out of commission. That’s been a real pain in the butt to deal with. Now the 4th floor restroom is starting to smell sewagey, so I don’t even want to go in it anymore, but can’t always run downstairs, so must deal with it as best I can. I’m hoping the new digs’ restrooms are more hygenic and have hot water!

Did you hear about the SC man who, when he lost his leg in an airplane accident, put the leg in a smoker and kept it in a storage building? When he could no longer make the payments on the storage unit, the contents were auctioned off with smoker containing the leg still inside and the new “owner” is now in a custody battle over the leg, but is selling tickets to view it to any who will buy. New Jeff Foxworthy “You Might Be A Redneck If” line — You might be a redneck if you keep your amputated body parts in a smoker grill. 😛

On another wierd but true note, we have a service call to the Helmsley Hotel for which the notes state the call must be signed for by the dog 😆 — don’t know if that’s for real from the customer or just a call-taker’s sense of humor, but it made the company headlines this morning. (If you don’t know, Ms. Helmsley’s dog was left several million dollars and the hotel in her will).

It looks like we might get some rain today. It’s definitely cloudy and feels like rain, but we’ll have to wait and see if it happens. I know we desperately need some! 

Well, that’s all my news today.

Love to all,

Margaret

Good morning all!

I hear Sis #2 has a toothache and is headed to the dentist today for some relief. I know how Ken suffererd from his teeth, so feel for you Sis. Crummy way to spend your pre-birthday days. I also hear you have a new ‘puter! It’s so lovely when they are squeaky clean and new.

How about our Mom?!? She de-installed and re-installed her printer all by herself! She will soon be telling us how to keep our computers clean and up to date! I’m so proud of her!

Eddie says he’s having his knee worked on later this week. I know that’s been troubling him for over a month now, so I’m glad he’s finally getting some relief from that!

I’m working from home today as I have an SSIG meeting tonight that I don’t want to miss. Topic is setting up a cube — really cool stuff!

My hummingbirds seem to have abandoned me. I haven’t seen any at my feeder in nearly a week now. It seems awfully early for them to have already flown south for the winter.

The deer are not so absent, though. I’m seeing larger groups of them in the yard in the evening — guess it’s getting to be their mating season. There is one doe that comes that has to be the ugliest deer I’ve ever seen! She is horribly knock-kneed in the front and has a head like a mule. She has two fawns with her that are going to be just as ugly as she is. Poor things! You can see her ugly head in this photo.

Well, that’s all my news for today. Hope you have a happy day!

Love to all,

Margaret

October 1st! This year is flying by!

Yesterday was a red-letter day for me (and Ken). Our Whippet girl, Butterfly was Best Bred-By in Show. That was so exciting! I’m still on Cloud 9! Butterfly is the same as if nothing ever happened, but that’s a dog for you 😆 I will share the photograph with you when it comes in a couple of weeks. I more than likely look like a troll thanks to the long day, windy weather (it was an outdoor show) and the fact that my hairspray failed within an hour of arrival at the show site at 7:30 am and the photo was taken at 3:15 pm :P, but I’m POSITIVE Butterfly looks gorgeous!

The countdown to move has started. Wes is making arrangements for moving trucks, etc and Jerry’s wife has been ordering furniture, a new phone system and lots of other things for the new office. I’m still worried about the servers being moved and set up properly, but have been assured that it will all go off without a hitch. 🙄 — call me a worry wart, but in my experience, nothing ever goes exactly as planned.

That’s my report for today!

Love to all,

Margaret