HoundBlog

Well we are home from Atlanta and tired, but happy.

Tigger made the cut every day but one and was 2nd in his class on the day of the AWC specialty out of a class of 17. We thought that was pretty good.

Everyone was ecstatic to see us when we got home including the birds.

We (or at least I) have a busy month coming up. We have shows the next two weekends in a row plus I am going to try to put in an appearance at the Responsible Dog Owner Day in Greenville next Saturday. Then on the 11th, I am supposed to attend a SQL Code Camp and on the 18th, I’m supposed to judge a match.  WHEW! Just thinking about it makes me tired! I should have another Sharepoint class coming up the 15th – 17th also.

Can you believe all this going on with the financial markets? I read somewhere that if you divided out what the government is proposing to spend to cover these bad debts that it will cost each American somewhere around $2,150 each. Since that includes children not of income producing age as well as people on fixed incomes, welfare, etc you can probably double that for each WORKING American.  While I don’t want us to go through another Depression, I can’t help but wonder if there is a better way that keeps people employed without “rewarding” the financial institutions that threw common sense to the winds when they encouraged and/or actually wrote mortgages for people who would not have qualified under even the most reasonable/generous of terms that still kept overall risk to an acceptable level. I will probably never understand the whole complex issue and still keep trying to reduce it to simple and understandable terms.

I am thankful that we still have our jobs, that our health is relatively good and that we didn’t succumb to the lure of a 100% mortgage. Yes we have debts, but they are not so much that we aren’t keeping up with them.

I hope all the rest of you are in the same boat with us.

Well, my boss is calling and I need to discuss stuff with him since I’ve been out of the office for 3 days, so I suppose I had best close this out and attend to business. I do need to keep this job 😉

Love to all,

Margaret