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Ah what a day it’s been! Our high was 35degrees today and I was cold all day long! The wind was really kicking up, too. BRRRRRR!

I finally got around to making reservations for a room in Savannah for next weekend. Ken thought I was going to leave it too late and not get a room, but the hotel said they had plenty of space available.

Another thing I left until the last minute was sending Mama a birthday card. I bought it last night and got it all ready to mail, but we were out of stamps, so I took it to work with me thinking I could run it through the postage machine at work. Well, they had let that run out of postage, so I ended up having to go to the post office to buy a stamp. I just bought one stamp and then couldn’t figure out how to get it to stick on the envelope. It didn’t have a peel off back and when I tried licking it, it didn’t get sticky, so I still had to wait in the mile-long line at the windows to get someone to stick it on. They used a glue stick and she made a note to check the stamps in the machine out. She stamped the stamp with a stamper thingy, so even if it falls off, they will know that it HAD a stamp on it and still deliver it.

Then as I was sitting at a red light after leaving the post office, I heard the screech of tires behind me. I could not look into the rearview mirror — I just sat there, trapped by the light and nowhere to get out of the way of the car that was laying down rubber trying to get stopped before sliding into either my rear end or the intersection (there were two lanes). Thankfully she was in the other lane, so I was spared being rear-ended, but let me tell you, I shook like a leaf for about 10 minutes afterwards. I’m so glad I went to the bathroom before I left work!

We’re going to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra Sunday afternoon. I think we’re going to enjoy that very much.

Well, that’s all for now.

Love to all,

Margaret

Working from home today and trying to get some housework done in between the programs running, etc.

It’s too cold to put the dogs out (or I’m just a sucker one), so I let them out in pairs to potty, then come back in to snuggle into their blankies in their crates for the day. They each have a bucket of water, so are quite comfy.

As always, there is one spoiler in the bunch.

Oscar decided to take a walk in the woods during his potty outing, so 45 minutes was spent trying to hunt him down. He ended up coming back on his own, but my day is disrupted now although since I started work at 4:30 am, the company is not out any of my time.

I’ve brewed myself a half pot of coffee and am settling down after chasing around the woods in my pajamas (yeah, I know — lazy!) for the dratted dog. If I didn’t love him so much I would have…..no  you KNOW better than that!

Well, now that you know how MY day is going, I sure hope yours is going more smoothly!

Gotta run — time to run the next script.

Love to all,

Margaret

What a week! It started off with taking Sebastain in on Monday to be put to sleep. He had collapsed on the sitter Sunday and wasn’t coming out of it. We think he was between 15 and 17 years old and it was just time.

Then Tuesday, Ken smelled something from the Max’s cast that was not very nice and so he and Tigger had to go to the vet. Poor Max! His cast rubbed a huge raw place under his arm and so they put him in a short cast and now he has to have antibiotics several times a day along with that raw place washed with Betadine solution 3 times a day. He’s handling it pretty well but we did have to put a radar dome on him to keep him from licking the sore place.

Tigger had some kind of allergic reaction to we think the cedar shavings last weekend. He wasn’t getting any better on just Benadryl, so the vet gave him a shot of steriods and put him on antibiotics, too. Between all that and the oatmeal baths, he’s looking much better.

Ken left today for shows in Concord, NC (just north east of Charlotte). I’m going to go up Saturday and hopefully be there in time to see him show. He twisted my arm into entering Savannah which is the last weekend of this month, so I’ll be going there by myself and trying to finish Butterfly.

That’s all there is for now.

Love to all,

Margaret

Hi all — hope you had a great weekend! We enjoyed our trip to Greensboro even though we didn’t win anything. The puppies didn’t totally embarrass us, so we pretty much counted that a win 🙂

I did have to come home to Sebastian collapsing and took him in this morning for a final good bye. He was a dog we rescued from Asheville about 8 years ago and he was probably between 15 and 17 years of age. He lived the “good life” with us especially compared to his early years where he was tied to a porch and left there in all kinds of weather. His owner finally gave him up to rescue when a neighbor’s dog attacked and nearly killed him — Sebastian had nowhere to get away from the attacking dog and being tied, couldn’t run away. He was a pretty good little guy who just sort of hung out with the crowd around here. He hated having his picture taken and would leave the room whenever the camera was brought out, so I don’t have very many photos of him and none that are what I would call “good”.

The puppy with the broken leg graduated to a small x-pen today, so I got to come to work after taking care of Sebastian. There were some aspects of working from home last week that I enjoyed and others that I didn’t, so getting back into the groove feels pretty good. I’ll have to take puppy in sometime this week for a cast change, but think I can do that after work one day later in the week (they said 10 days – 2 weeks and it will be 10 days on Wednesday).

We’re having a luncheon here tomorrow, so I’ll be coming in although I usually work from home on Tuesdays.

I think that pretty much catches you up on us.

Take care!

Love to all,

Margaret

Well the elections are over and now it’s just the gloating.  I can’t say I’m surprised at the outcome, but I sure have my doubts about the future of our country now. Eddie better be planning on what he’s going to do in six months if Mr. Obama cuts the military like he says he’s going to do. That will rook him out of retirement as he’s still short a couple of years of having 20 in.

Ken and I are headed to Greensboro this weekend for a show. We were supposed to show the TFT’s on Saturday, but with Max having done his swan dive, we’ll only be showing Minnie. Of course the Whippets are entered. Butterfly, Tigger and Nikki. I sure hope Butterfly can pull Winners off one of the two days. Then she can be a stay-at-home lady of leisure and someday have some babies.

Then next weekend, Ken heads to Concord, NC for a 3 day show. We only have Nikki and Tigger entered there, so he’ll go by himself and I’ll stay behind to take care of the dogs. He does want me to come up Saturday and go to dinner with him and the Boyds, so I may do that. Feed early and take off.

My boss decided he wanted me to work from home this week instead of taking vacation  due to Max’s leg. I’ll work from home until the first cast change when I think he’ll be able to graduate to an X-Pen instead of having to stay crated and leash walked. I have plenty of vacation time and I’ll have to take it before the end of the year anyway or else I’ll lose it, but he’s the boss and truly there has been plenty for me to do with two new customers coming on board this week alone.

Our weather was just beautiful today with highs in the mid-70’s. The dogs spent most of the day outside lying in the sun. I just watched out the window as I worked.

Well, you’re pretty much caught up now with what’s going on here. Take care.

Love to all,

Margaret

It was a gorgeous weekend weather-wise. Highs in the low 70’s and sunny. Saturday we had errands to run. Ken needed to pick up his truck in Easley and I needed to go to Sam’s Club for dog food.

We headed off to Sandy’s for breakfast first. Got there around 9:30, then headed to Easley to get Ken’s truck. We had decided to leave in in the Home Depot parking lot while we went on to Sam’s Club. I also wanted to go by Verizon and look at phones because the screen on my phone is gradually going away. I qualified for an upgrade in January, but hadn’t cared anything about getting a new phone as I like my pink Razar.

After we finished at Sam’s Club, we were headed to Verizon when Ken noticed the Costco and mentioned that he’d never been in one. I suggested we stop as I was pretty sure you could get a guest pass and so we took a look around and did some comparison shopping. We left and headed once more to Verizon. At a red light, a  man pulled up beside us, honked his horn and told us our left rear tire was almost flat.

Ken pulled over and we fixed the flat, then headed on. Verizon looked busy, but we got someone to wait on us pretty quickly. He showed me phones and I made a decision, then when he tried to ring it up, the system wouldn’t let him because that phone wouldn’t work on our price plan. The plan they wanted us to upgrade to was about $10 more per month, but we really didn’t need any more minutes, so it was back to the drawing board. I found another phone that we could keep our price plan and then just had to wait for them to activate it and move my contacts over from the one phone to the other. That took what seemed like FOREVER.

When that was finally done, we headed back to Home Depot to pick up the truck and drop off the tire that needed fixing. While we were waiting on the tire, we walked up to the Jack-In-The-Box that shares the parking lot with the tire place and Home Depot to grab a bite to eat. It’s nearly 3:00 pm and we haven’t had anything since we ate breakfast at 9:30. When we finished with our cardboard burgers, we walked up to Home Depot. By the time we go the light bulbs we needed there and got back to the tire place, the tire was fixed and we were ready to head for the house.

Sunday was pretty and we got up around 7:30 (standard time — we remember to move the clocks back!) and went to Sandy’s for breakfast again. Back home, Ken washed all 3 cars while I swept, mopped and did laundry. Around 2:30, we headed to Greenwood for my long awaited Chinese dinner.

The first place we stopped didn’t open for dinner until 5:00 pm, so we went across the street to the other one. It was closed on Sunday. So Ken mentioned a place that one of his friends talks about (not Chinese) and we head there. On the way, we spot another Chinese restaurant and this one is open! So in we go and I FINALLY get my long-awaited Chinese dinner.

Back home, we’re sitting watching tv and the two Toy Fox Terriers are running around and playing. Max jumps into Ken’s lap, stays long enough for kisses, then jumps down. Only he lands wrong and we’re off to the Vets where we find he has a broken leg.  They sedate him and set the leg and cast it. He’s got to stay crated for a couple of weeks, then they’ll recast the leg checking to make sure it’s healing properly. All-in-all, he’ll be in the cast about 6 weeks. He’s entered in the show this coming weekend, but obviously will be scratched. Thankfully my boss is letting me work from home all week, so I’m home working all week while making sure Max gets out to potty and gets his meds on time. He’s being fairly good about everything, but it’s obvious that his leg hurts.

I sure hope your weekend was a nice one!

Love to all,

Margaret