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Good morning everyone! Hope your day is going well.

Mine is very slow this morning. I’ve got my reports run and checked the logs for errors (there were none for a change!). Everything seems to be running very smoothly and with so many out of the office for inventory, it’s quiet as a morgue in here. I am bored silly.

Am going to Mom’s Saturday to spend some quality time with her. I’ll be taking her some books (so Judy — look for them coming your way eventually) and some other small items she can use. Oh – and a Mother’s Day something although I don’t know what just yet. She mentioned a street fair this weekend, so I’m hoping she’ll feel like going Saturday — I love street fairs! If not, I’ll take her to Walmart or where ever else she wants to go and treat her to lunch out somewhere as well.

If you haven’t checked out the “other” blog lately, I uploaded a bunch of photos to it last night. Birds and flowers and a bunny, but you knew it would be stuff like that didn’t you?

Well, I’ve just noticed something amiss, so need to get in touch with one of my guys. See you later!

Love to all,

Margaret

Writing late in the day today. Worked from home, but had to take a bird to the vet. Once in the car, I turned on my cell phone only to have messages from the vet’s office telling me they won’t have time to see the bird today, so had to take her to the other bird vet that’s 30 more minutes away.

At least she got seen and put on meds for her bad toe. She was not a happy baby after all the needles and manhandling she had to endure. She was pretty good about taking her medicine though.

I got photos of the petunias taken finally. I think they are so pretty! But here, see for yourself!

My yellow azaleas are blooming, too. I’ll put photos of all these and some critters I caught in the yard over on the photo blog so as not to make this so hard to download. Guess Ma will want them uploaded to webshots so she can add them to her screensaver, too. I’ll have photos all over the web <G>

Ken had to work an hour over tonight and he just walked in the door. I managed to get our bathroom clean and 3 loads of clothes washed, dried and put away today as well as worked 8 hours and took the bird to the vet. The day started at 4:00 am, though, so you know how I had time to get all that done.  It will be early to bed tonight, I’ll bet you.

Got to run. Need to fix dinner so we can hit the sack.

Love to all,

Margaret

Happy Monday to you all! Hope your day has dawned as clear and pretty as ours has. Highs are predicted in the low 80’s for most of the week. I can stand those — I don’t look forward to the 90’s and above that we’ll probably get before too long.

I am so ready for gas prices to come down, but it doesn’t look like lower prices at the pump will be coming any time soon despite the US Dollar gaining ground overseas. Of course the price of transportation is making everything else go up in price, too. Economic stimulus or not, it’s going to be rough for the next foreseeable while.

The show Sunday was pretty much a repeat of Saturday. Payne did end up with a ribbon Sunday, although it was a 4th place one. No sniff even of points. Again Tigger won his class handily only to lose out on the higher award to the 9-12 puppies. They are nice puppies, don’t get me wrong. I’ve gotten Tigger a little too heavy and so he’s not as competitive in looks. I’ll have his weight down for the next show in 2 weeks in Gray, TN.

So far work has been fairly quiet. Let’s hope it stays that way for awhile.

Ken took the lawnmower to its new home Sunday. Now he’s REALLY into researching the replacement for it. Of course, if he doesn’t put some weed and feed out soon, he won’t have to worry about having any grass to mow. 😆

My yellow azalea has bloomed. It’s just loaded with blooms this year and I need to get out there with my camera and get some photos of it. Ken bought me the prettiest petunia hanging basket yesterday when he stopped at Home Depot looking at lawn mowers. They are a double shade of yellow that reminds me of lemon sherbet. Photos of that will be coming as well.

Well, that’s got you caught up with us. What’s new with you?

Love to all,

Margaret

Show day today. Ken had to work, so it fell to me to show all 3 dogs. Not great results as Payne got nothing, Butterfly was 4th out of 5 and Tigger won his class of 3 but was stopped from going any further by puppies. Ken’s off tomorrow, so will show Tigger and maybe have better luck.

I had a new visitor at my feeder this afternoon. I’ve identified her as a female Rosebreasted Grosbeak. She’s quite distinctive!

I’ve started a photo blog over at www.msns-blogs.com/blog which has this photo and more. I’m trying to upload photos there from my cache of photos that I’ve taken over the years. I had been uploading them to Flickr and Webshots, but it’s easier to put them in the blog and feels less like I’m peeing in the ocean if you know what I mean.

That’s about all there is to tell you. Wish us luck tomorrow.

Love to all,

Margaret

It was another long day today and it’s not over yet.

I’m sitting in Atlanta airport waiting on my connecting flight back to Greenville which doesn’t leave until 10:35 pm and it’s just 8:30.

The day started off with no internet at the hotel which meant my getting up at 5:00 so I could log into work and run some reports was for nothing. I went down to breakfast and then back up to my room to wait until time to meet the other witnesses in the lobby and go to the courthouse. I was scheduled to be first on the witness stand this morning and the District Attorney wanted to talk with me briefly before we went into the courtroom.

We had our chat, then headed up to the 10th floor where the courtroom is. I was put in a small room to wait for them to convene court and call the first witness. They called me in, then seated the jury which had 16 people (12 jurors and 4 alternates). The DA went through the questions we had covered the night before although in slightly different order. They stopped me a time or two because they couldn’t understand some of the things I was saying — the judge joked that they couldn’t understand my accent although I was trying to not speak with one. It took longer than I thought it would as there was some hullaballo over the complaint I had filed with the Better Business Bureau in New York. I had filed it online and they showed me a paper with what I had typed on line on the paper and asked if I recognized the document. I could not honestly answer yes to that question which got the defense all excited thinking he had found a flaw in the prosecution’s case. My DA was not going to allow that, though, so he was quashed in the end.

When the defense attorney was allowed to do his cross examination, he told me I had testified that I had not spoken with his client, Lewis Moustachi and I replied that statement is not correct as I had spoken with Mr. Moustachi just couldn’t remember the exact conversation since by that point I was trying to find out what they were doing with my money and why they had not sent proposals to the credit card companies as they had told me they had done.  He repeated the statement again about my not talking to his client only in a belligerent and loud voice which the DA immediately voiced objection to and before the “n” in objection was out of his mouth, the judge was saying “sustained”. His next question was just a rephrase of that question although in a less combative tone and I repeated my answer.  He gave up trying to trip me up at that point.

I was NOT like Law and Order or Perry Mason. I wasn’t nervous although I worried about the document thing, the Postal Inspector who walked me out of the courtroom when I was dismissed was elated over how it all transpired and told me no one would ever know that I had never testified before.

Now I’m just waiting on the final leg of my flight home, then making the drive and falling into bed. I’ve already talked to Wes about working from home tomorrow and he’s agreed that I can do that.  I’ll probably “go to work late”, though.

Since I still don’t have internet although there is WiFi here in the airport you evidently have to pay for it, I’ll send this off tomorrow.

Love to all,

Margaret